One of the biggest lies pushed by the media was that Todd Akin was the Tea Party candidate. He was not!!
Sarah Steelman was the Tea Party candidate in that race. Akin was the Establishment-pick. And somehow the Tea Party gets blamed for his buffoonery??
Which explains the whole problem with the “Tea Party” moniker. We’ve allowed the Left to define what it is, in a manner that benefits them.
Tea Party is to the Left, what the Jews are to the Nazis. A convenient foil to create fear.......”The Tea Partier want to bring back slavery”, “They want gays back in the closet”, etc.
And nobody on our side can really articulate what the Tea Party stands for.