The Tea Party got infiltrated by the “Purity Caucus” and ended up bouncing off and tripping up all of the good and exciting candidates or running off when the Rom smear machine got going.
Now we have pure bulls*it to work with.
Yup. The “Taxed Enough Already” party and the candidates that focused on those issues where virulently attacked, at least here, by the “Praise Jeebus” crowd.