Romney beat two Tea Party candidates last night, in Red states, by 10 points and 15 points last night.
Which essentially destroys the whole argument in this article.
Really. And what part did the state-run media — and even the GOP establishment — play in destroying those Tea Party candidates?
Who? Akin. Not tea party. Tea partiers backed the other two candidates. Akin was the southern evangelical choice.
He also beat establishment standard bearers, including two former governors in WI and VA. Also, Mack in FL.
I am not going to sit around letting people blame tea party for these losses. Tea party is what got us the Senate gains 2 years ago and strong House majority that remains intact.
This year was RNC central controlled bland messaging for our Senate candidates and somewhat for Romney...safe, poll tested stuff. It didn’t work.
Those two “tea” candidates were hardly classics of the tea party. And those two probably did enough damage at critical moments with unskilled mouths to lose the election and the senate for us. For all the noise, TEA was organized around resistance to the TARP and Obamacare. Even the name, “Taxed Enough Already”.
So a week before the repub convention, one of them says the most idiotic thing about womens bodies being able to prevent rape pregnancy that most people have ever heard. He breathes new credible life into the “war on women” lie.
And with us barely surviving that, his buddy wades into wacky rape opinions a few days before the debates begin.
Those two lost their way from the TEA economic message. And their hard-headed stupidity ensured that the psychopathic killer of babies delivered alive will get another term, and will give us a 6-3 court.
Their unskilled approach to how to attack abortion has solidified the most pro-abortion candidate imaginable.
Tea Party candidates ran against Romney somewhere?
Which states and candidates do you refer to?
The argument is that Romney failed to mobilize the anger stirred by the Tea party movement. Back in 2008, Rove and the rest seemed offended by Sarah Palin because she could articulate such passion. Thus she was not exploited at all by the Romney campaign even though she is undoubtedly was the best stump speaker in among the four candidate in 2008. But in choosing his VP, he was inclined to choose Christie before picking Ryan. That he let the moderate Mr. Christie give the key note instead of Rubio is instructive. Christie delivered nothing. Rubio probably have heated up the place.