"A President Romney would form a coalition between Congressional RINOs and Dems and hang the Tea Party out to dry. And he will use the power of his office to get more GOP-E candidates in 2014 and fight the rise of the Tea Party tooth and nail - and will be hard to dislodge in 2016, leading to yet another electoral disaster in 2018 and 2020 like we saw in the end years of the Bush Admin, due largely to the inherent RINO problems infesting that administration."What was Mourdock's barrier to entry? Candidates that affiliate to any degree with the Tea Party will be more viable under a President Mittens, not less. I don't see anyone scared by Mitten's money, it's not like it kept 5 conservatives from running against each other...
Electoral history designates second-term mid-term losses for the ruling party, to some degree. But neither party is going to look the same by then.
What was Mourdock's barrier to entry? Candidates that affiliate to any degree with the Tea Party will be more viable under a President Mittens, not less. I don't see anyone scared by Mitten's money, it's not like it kept 5 conservatives from running against each other... Are you kidding? Mitt just delivered a lesson to those conservatives that he has no qualms about using his money to destroy them. Under a President Romney, the GOP-E would do the same to any Tea Party challenger of RINOs.
And Mourdock is running in an election year with a Dem president. Big difference.