What kills me is that journalists and the mainstream media believe they have control. After attacking all candidates they don't consider Presidential, they are now pronouncing the Tea Party dead or
no longer relevant. They really think they won and will get their free health-care after all. And they are coming after Romney just as hard after his
envy comments last week.
It seems to me that if the Tea Party was alive and
Relevant There would be a conservative candidate in the lead.
There is not and there is no cohesive force to create one.
The Tea Party is therefore not a relevant factor
QED .:
There is then the House of Representatives. The influence is and relevance is greater there and can be an influencing factor when all three branches are Republican controlled.