At the end of the day, I don’t think any of it matters. We lost a few races with Tea Party candidates... so what?! Did Karl Rove expect the Tea Party to have a 10 for 10 victory rate otherwise he’d label it a failure? Well, it looks that way. The facts are these. The Tea Party took over the House of Representatives which, despite the atrocious leadership, has stalled the Marxist agenda. That would NOT have happened without grassroots conservatives, and we’d still be talking about Speaker Piglosi.
We failed to win the senate in 2010, but that was a pretty big f*cking mountain to climb anyway. We were something like 10 seats down. Ron Johnson was ours, Pat Toomey (though we may regret it now) was ours, and as much as the establishment like to forget they backed Crist, Rubio was also ours.
We lost again in 2012 because we ran “the most conservative candidate who could win” against Barack Obama, and conservatives stayed home. Todd Akin was an idiot, not a Tea Partier. Mourdock would have won, had Rove and the like not trashed him for comments that were blown out of proportion. We also had ‘easy’ races in Montana and other states, and Rove blew them all.
Oh, and before we forget to mention it. The guys with balls in the senate and the house... are also OURS! Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Steve King, Louie Gohmert. These are our damn people! Yet I bet we’ll still be hearing about Christine O’Donnell in the year 4027.
If we take the senate in 2014, it will not be because of Karl Rove. It will be in SPITE of Karl Rove.
That’s about right.....