[cotton1706]

Bottom line, candidates and incumbents know we're watching them closely...and will continue to do so.

[grania]

If the US Senate gets 60 ‘pubs with a half dozen or more true constitutional conservatives who cannot be siphoned off one issue at a time, the dialogue about conservative principles will get real. It’s worked that way in the HOR.

[Twotone]

We had an upset last night here in Oregon. One of our R state reps got a challenger after he backed a tax levy, got endorsed by Planned Parenthood, accepted a campaign donation from a very left Dem state rep, & asked if it really was a crime to be a moderate.

Yes, as far as your voters are concerned!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

A week or two ago, when the primaries were held in North Carolina and Ohio, Glenn Beck mentioned on his radio show the next day that the TEA Party won three races at the state level in one of those two states and five races at the state level in the other.

Of course the TEA Party is going to have good election nights and bad election nights. Over the many years, the same could be said of the Republican and Democrat parties.
The fight is just beginning.

[februus]

Nothing has done more harm currently than having the IRS launch a protracted and completely illegal war against American citizens for their political beliefs. How many people who were a positive force - pro growth activists - had to gauge what they had to lose and simply entrenched themselves? Find your fists! Then use them for a purpose!

[wku man]

I can't speak for the rest of the nation, but here in Idaho-2, Bryan Smith ran a terrible campaign. Granted, he's from Idaho Falls, which is in eastern Idaho, but his district extends all the way to where I live, in West Boise. Why didn't he come to this part of the state more often, where most of his district's voters are? I heard him on local radio a couple of times, but that's about it. Simpson had campaign volunteers knocking on doors in my neighborhood -- where were Smith's volunteers? He had some half-a**ed radio spots, but where was his online presence?

If you're going to go up against entrenched, seasoned GOP-E incumbents, you'd damn well better have a professional campaign, or at least give it your best effort. I can't speak for Matt Bevin's campaign, but Smith's sucked, even though I voted for him.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[CommerceComet]

I agree with the assessment that the success of the TEA Party movement is measured in terms of a war and not battles. In politics, getting your ideas implemented is really more important than getting your people elected (although getting both is best). As long as our ideas are getting traction, we are winning.

[TBP]

Congratulations, GOP. You just lost Kentucky.

[ModelBreaker]

“...but they did so by becoming increasingly conservative.”

I think it would be more accurate to say “they did so by pretending to be increasingly conservative.”

Campaign talk is always conservative. It’s what they do when they get to Washington that matters. And on that count, the GOP-E has a sorry record.

So I’m sorry, the article is a bit like all the articles after the John Roberts Obamacare decision, trying to spin it as anything other than a crushing defeat for America.

The ongoing lock of the GOP-E on our party is a crushing defeat for America.

[Theophilus]

The convulsions are ebbing but the patient has become comfortably numb?

[RKBA Democrat]

It’s just a flesh wound.

[Teacher317]

The “establishment” candidates may have won—but they did so by becoming increasingly conservative.

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. :(