Also in the race is Joe Kennedy, a Libertarian who is also running as the "Tea Party Candidate." Wonderful. Though he is only currently polling about 1%, in a special election race in which general turnout will be low, every single vote counts that much more. Brown needs every anti-statist vote he can get to even have a shot at winning this. Yet, we have a "Tea Party Candidate" in the race who is no better on these important issues than the Republican. When it comes to Porkulus or Obamacare, Kennedy is basically a clone of Brown. A clone who could steal enough votes away to hand the race to Coakley. A clone who could end up subverting his own ideological position by running in this race, handing the Democrats back their filibuster-proof majority and their license to spend your and my (and his) hard-earned money. Glad the author brought this up, I've been warning about Kennedy for a while. He is correct except, Kennedy is far worse than Brown. Kennedy is a life long Democrat, pro-choice, code pinko, who agrees with the Dems on most of the issues but is playing the 'tea party' candidate game by claiming he just doesn't want the federal government to pay for it. IMHO, he is a dem trying to split the Conservative vote.
Exactly. They are trying to neuter the meaning of Tea Party, split the vote and render the work done thus far, meaningless.