Tea party pulls out a modest victory in Nebraska Senate primary (27 points!)

cbsnews.com ^ | 5/14/14

[cotton1706]

The victory notched by tea party Republicans in the Nebraska Senate race was modest, but they'll take it in a season that has yielded few bright spots so far.

Ben Sasse won the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb. Sasse was the closest thing to a tea party candidate in the three-man race, largely because he feuded last fall with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the epitome of establishment Republicanism.

But Sasse is hardly the out-of-right-field firebrand that some tea partyers cherish. A college president with degrees from Harvard and Yale, he worked for the U.S. departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. Those endorsing him ranged from non-mainstream players - including Sarah Palin and the Club for Growth - to well-established Republicans such as five-term Rep. Jeff Fortenberry and former Gov. Kay Orr. Sasse, 42, had "visiting scholar status" at the Brookings Institution, the venerated left-of-center think tank near the White House.

Several factors make the Nebraska results rather weak tea for tea party celebrations. Sasse's conservative credentials don't differ greatly from his opponents', especially Shane Osborn. Osborn had the conservative group FreedomWorks' endorsement before it was switched to Sasse.

[RIghtwardHo]

FINALLY some good news. Jeep up the good work TP. Keep up the good work!

[xzins]

27 point victory for Sasse is modest.

17 point victory for Tillis is slam dunk.

You gotta wonder about these people.

[txrefugee]

Keep living in your Media Dream Land, you dinosaurs. You’ll never see the tsunami coming in November.

[Lazamataz]

Mark, this one right here.

[Lazamataz]

Keep living in your Media Dream Land, you dinosaurs. You’ll never see the tsunami coming in November.

Meh. If we sweep clean, every single race, they will outright lie:

"DEMOCRATS WIN ALL RACES IN NOVEMBER, 2014" will scream the headlines.

They have gotten to the point where, whatever the reality, they write the opposite.

[luvie]

“Modest” 27 points??!!

Gimme a freakin’ break, MSM!! *rolling eyes*

[Palio di Siena]

To be sure, the tea party candidate finished next to last and the democrat
came in second.

[TomGuy]

FoxNews reports that this and some elections in other states are being funded by [EVIL] SuperPacs and [EEEEEEVVVVIIILLLL-er] out-of-state Tea Party and conservative groups.

[Couldn’t help but chuckle. How many Dem candidates get money from SuperPacs and out-of-state groups? FoxNews reporter didn’t bother to answer that.]

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“But Sasse is hardly the out-of-right-field firebrand that some tea partyers cherish. A college president with degrees from Harvard and Yale....” <<-—he doesn’t fit my paradigm of a buck-toothed hick toting a shotgun.

“...he worked for the U.S. departments of Justice and Health and Human Services.” <<<-—so I guess I’ll be striking out on what I was planning to write, that he is an inexperienced country bumpkin who has no Wash DC experience.

“Those endorsing him ranged from non-mainstream players - including Sarah Palin and the Club for Growth - <<-—Sarah Palin being someone nobody ever cared about unless you count my last three editorials calling her a stupid quitter and complaining that I could not get her out of my head and the Club for Growth, kind of the same thing, those damned Koch Bros are completely unimportant unless I make them important. But Harry Reid calling them out by name, repeatedly, on the Senate floor, has no real bearing on how unimportant I would like to make them for the purposes of this report. Thanks for your understanding.

“....to well-established Republicans such as five-term Rep. Jeff Fortenberry and former Gov. Kay Orr. Sasse, 42, had “visiting scholar status” at the Brookings Institution, the venerated left-of-center think tank near the White House.

He also used a public restroom sometime in 2005, and it might have been at a rural truckstop in Nebraska, so there’s that going against him as well.

Never mind. These are racists and homophobes and it would be a tragic step backwards if any of these creeps got into office, as well as a reflection on just how stupid the American people who do not live in the Northeast are and how dumb they are to vote for conservatives who hate women.

[TBP]

This is typical of the media’s construct of reality. If a conservative wins, he can’t be a conservative (by definition.)

[deport]

Sid Dinsdale       49,819   22.39%

Clifton  Johnson    3,285    1.48%

Bart McLeay        12,696    5.71%

Shane Osborn       46,845   21.06%

Ben Sasse         109,810   49.36%

total             222,453

1745/1745 precincts reporting

http://electionresults.sos.ne.gov/resultsSW.aspx?text=Race&type=SW&map=CTY

[ChessExpert]

Thanks!

[fortheDeclaration]

Yea, it is amazing that the 'dead' TeaParty movement was able to win a major Primary, but this to them is only a 'modest victory'

The Establishment candidate came in third!

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Those endorsing him ranged from non-mainstream players - including Sarah Palin"

Palin ? Non-mainstream ? CBS, you ignorant sluts.

[gusopol3]

You know what they’d have said if he’d lost.