Rand Paul-?Tea Party or not
Yeah, Rand Paul is Tea Party, but he’s also Kentucky.
And the race got too close for comfort at some points during the campaign.
I’m about as pro-Tea Party as you can get, but we need to look at the numbers and understand what’s behind them.
In heavily contested close Senate races, being directly linked with the “Tea Party” cost Republicans in the sense that it energized an equal and opposite reaction from Democrat forces.
What we’ve learned, just as the Democrats now have, is that 0bama is no game changer. He has not fundamentally changed American politics. The same divisions exist. The same partisanship, and the same ideological battles. America has rejected 0bama’s far-left Central Government radicalism, but that doesn’t mean they have embraced the polar opposite of that either.
The election last night was merely a correction, back to what America fundamentally is, and has always been: a center-right nation.
If we want to achieve a radical reduction in the size of government, dismantle entire departments (DHS, Education, Energy), we are going to have to be smart about choosing candidates who as Van Jones said, “forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”