No matter how 2014 turns out, the Tea Party is not going away. The average Tea Partier is a highly intelligent, high information citizen. Lessons learned in 2010 & 2012 will be applied to 2014. Lessons learned in 2014 will be applied to 2016.
To those that say we're irrelevant, look at how hard right Lindsey Graham and John Cornyn have turned in the last six months, trying to follow the same script that Orrin Hatch successfully used to avoid a primary.
For every Ted Cruz we send to Washington, I'm willing to put up with two or three "unviable" candidates.
Booby Hatch was saved by Palin. Not one of her better moments.