“The tea party does better at Senate races than the GOPe, who lost about 10 or 11 in 1012.”
Well, we needed Missouri, Ohio, Nevada and Maryland, and we came up bupkiss!
My wife is from Las Vegas so we follow Nevada politics. Angle could have wion Dingy Harry’s seat going away if she could have just controlled her stupid mouth (his dumbassed son failed miserably in his run for Governor at the same time so don’t tell me about “the Reid Machine”).
Akin and Mourdoch came off as a couple of “Religious Neanderthals,” (with my apologies to real Christian folks) and O’Donnell as someone who couldn’t balance her checkbook. Just think how different things would have been with a GOP Senate even with Old Scrotum Chin and his buddies at the helm. At the very least, we would not now have the RATs rolling in all of FUBO’s Marxist judges!
That is two different election cycles, and you name Akins, who wasn’t tea party.
Palin and the tea party asked Akins to step down, and Palin didn’t endorse Angle for the primary in Nevada.
O’Donnell lost, but most agree her rino primary opponent would have also, again, that was back in 2010, when the tea party led the GOP to historic wins.
In 2012 the GOPe was a disaster of epic proportions, and lost the Senate, thank God that Palin gave us our only Senate seat pick-up, and Cruz down in Texas.
Without the tea party and people like Cruz and Rand Paul, and the tea party winners, things would look pretty dismal, Rove pent hundreds of millions in 2012, for nothing.
The tea party has strengthened the GOP since 2008.