Posted on 05/21/2014 7:40:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
Defeats handed to Tea Party candidates last night only tell half the storythe Tea Partys real success has been to change the very DNA of the GOP
The Tea Party got shut out on Tuesday night.
In Idaho, incumbent Rep. Mike Simpson easily defeated Bryan Smith, the Club for Growth-backed challenger. In Kentucky, businessman Matt Bevin got walloped by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the two most establishment candidates made the runoff in the Republican Senate primary in Georgia.
Ironically enough, however, last night represented a big win for the Tea Party's conservative, small government ethos, and the extent to which Tea Party ideology is now cemented into the GOP is now plain to see.
Despite not having any candidates who draped themselves in Gadsden flags win marquee races on Tuesday, the election results showed the ultimate success of the Tea Partys effort to change the very DNA of the GOP, as the median voter in a Republican primary has become far more conservative in the past few years. The establishment candidates may have wonbut they did so by becoming increasingly conservative.
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I agree with your entire observation and premise. I used to think a nuke dropped on DC was the worst imaginable thing.
Now, I only wish it could happen during a budget showdown or an election recount crisis so it can kill as many career DC pols and staffers on both sides of the aisle as possible.
It pains me to say that. Adams was right though - once you lose freedoms, they don’t return.
Damn, they let liberal friends-of-Democrats post on Free Republic?
Just like they always do... and in the general, they go back Left-wards... and in office, they continue to do nothing to advance the cause of small, limited government. TEA party, and the USA, loses again. :(
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