Simple: Eating your own. Being hell bent on "taking out" incumbents who are strong supporters of Ted Cruz, while giving actual RINOs a pass (nobody bothered to lift a finger to help Joe Carr defeat Lamar Alexander until the last few weeks of the campaign, and even worse, we have this defeatist attitude that liberal Republicans in so called "blue states" are the "best we can get", so the result is the GOP establishment shoved hard-left socialist like Mark Kirk in the U.S. Senate, and our side went along with it).
You don't see the UKIP in England try to "target" the best members of the Conservative Party simply because they're incumbents, and run a clueless amateur against them because some radio talk show thought it was a good idea. Instead they go after leftists in both parties and run credible candidates. That's why the UKIP is winning and the Tea Party is losing.
Good insight.
um there is no actual Tea Party. Comparing the UKIP to it is a wrong comparison. These are Republicans running against each other.
Getting rid of incumbents in ones own party is quite difficult since they have name recognition, money and endorsements which make them seem more Conservative than they are in reality.
Your words mock reality. Durbin, yes. Kirk, no.
The hate for someone who votes the right way 90 percent of the time is why the tea party is often not taken seriously.
Eating your own is a very good way to enable fascist democrats.