2010 was what it was. But today 2010 means jack without a follow-up. Did the Tea Party fail? Hell, no! Unless I see some very convincing numbers to the contrary. We turned out strong today. What was stronger, unfortunately, was the additional class of government-dependent voters Obama managed to create in the last four years. The demographic is growing faster than we are.
The one place where the Tea Party brought about an absolute disaster in 2012 (and in 2010, as well) was in the primary races for U.S. Senate seats. There were 23 Democratic seats contested this year, compared to only 10 for the GOP. The Republicans lost some of these key races they never should have lost — mainly because the “Tea Party” candidates were such abject mediocrities (Akin and Mourdock, for example).