Who? Akin. Not tea party. Tea partiers backed the other two candidates. Akin was the southern evangelical choice.
He also beat establishment standard bearers, including two former governors in WI and VA. Also, Mack in FL.
I am not going to sit around letting people blame tea party for these losses. Tea party is what got us the Senate gains 2 years ago and strong House majority that remains intact.
This year was RNC central controlled bland messaging for our Senate candidates and somewhat for Romney...safe, poll tested stuff. It didn’t work.
I am not going to sit around letting people blame tea party for these losses. Tea party is what got us the Senate gains 2 years ago and strong House majority that remains intact...
...sorry, but, fair or not, correctly or not, Tea Party as a political marker has been successfully vilified into oblivion...it is poison now in the political landscape, made so by a lefty sycophant media...the politician that stands up and proudly proclaims ‘Tea Party’ will end up a footnote in political history...the premises underlying the movement are sound and everlasting, but another method of delivering that message must be found other than buzz phrases that can be cornered and eviscerated...this will require a lot of analysis and asking tough questions...and making decisions that are going to anger a lot of people...no other way to compete against the demographics we’re confronting, which will, eventually, render this country into a unique socialist state with a lot of internal strife between diverse populations...