I wouldn’t say the Tea Party per se, but the not so great candidates. I was not impressed by Angle and O’Donnell. One looked like an angry lady, and the other didn’t have enough credential—which of course, got a pass simply because she said all the ‘correct’ things that conservatives wanted to hear rather than scrutinized her records. That recently she endorsed Romney broke some people’s hearts here.
There was no way that ANY Republican could of won Delaware in 2010...not even Castle. If Castle couldn’t beat COD in the primary, he sure as hell wasn’t gonna beat Coons in the general.
As to Sharon Angle. She was up against Reid and his money/machine/fraud. She lost by only 4 points.
2010 was the Tea Party’s first set of national elections, if anyone was expecting perfection the first time out they are fooling themselves.
The GOP was competing in a lot of blue states in 2010....not the case in 2012.