The magical thinking here, BTW, is that candidates that every poll showed couldn’t win somehow were going to win simply by virtue of the Tea Party believing they would because of Tea Party support alone.
Sarah Palin fits that, except that half the Tea Party members even understand that she can’t win.
The candidates who did win were the ones with broad appeal beyond just the Tea Parties, like Ron Johnson, Kelly Ayotte, Pat Toomey, and Marco Rubio.
The ones who lost were the more polarizing candidates who could not expand their appeal beyond the Tea Parties: Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Ken Buck, Joe Miller. This is the group Sarah Palin belongs to.
It's a straw man argument. Palin has been elected. She is gifted speaker and drawn massive crowds nationwide as part of Presidential campaign.
She doesn't compare to rookie politicians like Angle and Buck, who made a lot of mistakes.
Of course, that ignores the many Tea Party candidates that won in the House...
You're like the liberal media, pushing propaganda here.