To me, the thing that blew Raul Labrador’s chances was that he couldn’t control the supposed “Tea Party” activists who didn’t regard him as pure enough and attacked him in his home state at the convention last week. He clearly wasn’t strong and effective.
Everybody on the right has their own dog and their own pony in this dog and pony show, but they never think about the overall show.
People were warned in the beginning to beware GOP takeovers of the TEA groups. the fight isn’t purity. The fight is a black op within TEA groups. Hell, a couple are openly GOP controlled.
The purity meme is a screen. Nothing more.