So the tea party now claims credit for Scott Brown's victory? I don't recall that he was a tea party candidate. He ran his campaign and raised funds via facebook, and tea party conservatives have been calling him a RINO and traitor nearly ever since he was elected.
You recall wrong. The tea Party endorsed and supported him although they weren’t as efficient as they are now. I think he may have even attended a rally or two.
But yeah...many have been attacking him since because his votes are contradictory to what they stand for. My response to that is they were incredibly naive if they thought a MASS politician wouldn’t make votes they disagreed with. It’s why I usually don’t give a damn about deep liberal state victories. I only supported Brown as an exception to stop the “health” bill. Whish, if not for a questionable loophole, should have killed it.
Same thing with Deleware. I am certain some of these people actually believe she’ll win the general and be a rock solid conservative. Umm...no IF she wins she won’t. I don’t really like her but I don’t expect her to win the general so I feel comfortable in supporting her for a primary win. My goal is to defeat Castle because his type of republican screwed up the brand the last time. If she wins I have no intention of sending her money because I don’t want her representing conservatism either. And this opens up more opptunity for the RNC to finance Angle or maybe they guy in WV...I’m sure this strategy infuriates some people out there but don’t really care. I want good conservatives elected to red and swing states. The rest are on their own to do what they like unless we have the rare exception of a Christie or a Castle. A Christie I’d support. A Castle/Chafee type I’ll seek to destroy. Just wish Illinous Republicans had gotten together and put up someone with a chance to torpedo Kirk.
The tea party is not a political party, it is an ideal.
Scott Brown was definitely a ‘tea party’ phenomenon because he was MORE CONSERVATIVE than his challenger.
That’s all it takes to be ‘tea party’, whether your opponent is Rebublican, Democrat or whatever.