The only tiny thing I would disagree with you on is the Tea Party reference. There are two distinct strains of tea - at least two - and only one is the real liberty minded, limited government, anti Obama Care tea that was sparked by Rick Santelli and led to the formation of the tea party - which included a lot of social conservatives, but they were not there for the social issues per se.
And then there is the co opting of some of the tea party groups as a off shoot of and repackaing of pro life groups.
The first group gives us Marco Rubio, Lee from Utah, Johnson from Wisconsin, Cruz from Texas, Paul from Kentucky - and is kind of godfathered by DeMint. The second group gives us O Donnell, Angle, Akin and Mourdock. And Santorum. And what this clueless group doesn’t even understand is that Akin and Santorum are really long time tools of the establishment, but they are so despised for their utter lack of ability, that they then claim to be outsiders. And too many fall for it around here simply because they will babble endlessly about abortion. How about we save the country from Marxism and/or Islamic terror first, then win the arguments that we are right on regarding the other issues?
I’m a total Reagan conservative, but I’ll be darned if I’ll blindy support an idiot just because he is right on the social issues. There are non idiots who are also right on those issues.
Find me someone who can actually accomplish something for those issues, even if that is someone who doesn’t look like Brady Bunch central casting.
BINGO