The Tea Party movement failed. It failed to produce winning senate candidates in 2010 and again in 2012 costing the GOP a Senate majority.
Now, not only is there no congressional majority to repeal ObamaCare, Obama is still president and 'Tea Party' "heroes" like Allen West have been fired after just a single term.
You can't blame the GOP when "Tea Party" candidates failed in states won by the party presidential nominee.
I am disappointed Romney won't be POTUS and we must suffer four more years of division, lecturing and lies along with persistent economic torture err experimentation.
I'm disgusted not only by voters but by the reaction of some among here so insistent on repeating the mistakes of the CAGOP from the 1990s which destroyed the party and have made CA a permanently one party Democratic state.
What you say about the Senate is true, though not all Tea Party candidates failed. IMO in retrospect, I thought Romney won it, the issues should have been addressed more directly. And lots of those positions were Tea Party positions. They simply weren't elucidated in simple terms.