Tucker Carlson: The Tea Party Has Destroyed The Republican Establishment

Mediaite ^ | November 16, 2011 | Colby Hall

[ozark hilljilly]

“The Tea Party Has Destroyed The Republican Establishment”

And this would be bad because...?

[5thGenTexan]

If so, then “Mission Accomplished”.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Total truth. Several years ago my 13 year old (at the time) daughter came through the den and saw TC on the TV. Her only comment was "he looks like his mommy dressed him".

Still laugh about it today.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

This (l)ibertarian says THANK YOU to the Tea Party for its continued assault on the GOP establishment. Rock on, brothers and sisters.

[smoothsailing]

The Tea Party Has Destroyed The Republican Establishment

Mostly superficial flesh wounds, we need to keep at it until we kill it dead.

[ilgipper]

First, I had no idea Carlson was founder of the Daily Caller. No wonder I have found that outfit so suspect in the past.

Secondly, why is the tea party responsible for Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell, but no mention of Mike Lee, Toomey, Rubio, Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, and dozens of other winners. The insiders love to cherry-pick to create a narrative. The tea party activists supported a HELL of a lot more winners than loser in 2010.

This is ignoring that the Delaware race was also a victory because we kept another left-wing northeastern Republican out of the Senate to do massive damage. Mike Castle would have been an immediate addition to the gang of nitwits like the Maine twins, Scott Brown and Lindsey Graham that muck up our good policy efforts time after time.

[USS Alaska]

Perhaps the Tea Party has won the GOP battle, but some might suggest that they will lose the eventual war against their Democratic foes.

Who dat some that might suggest?

[Paine in the Neck]

Well, not yet....but we're working on it!

I was just driving by to post that very phrase.

[NoGrayZone]

Not quite yet, we have plenty of more work to do, but have made great strides.

Keep on truckin Tea Party, full steam ahead. We cannot rest until our job is done.

The future depends on us.

[NoGrayZone]

Great minds, yada yada yada. You know the rest!

[dfwgator]

Reagan was but a brief respite from the elites controlling the GOP.

[dfwgator]

My father taught me to never trust a guy wearing a bowtie.

[G Larry]

No Tucker, the GOP Establishment destroyed the GOP Establishment, by too often being indistinguishable from the Dem’s, in their quest to expand the scope of government, and their spending habits.

[Brookhaven]

especially when Tea Party endorsed candidates like Herman Cain (and Sharron Angle of last fall) brought embarrassment to some in the GOP ranks.

And Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ron Johnson--all now considered to be rising GOP stars, even by the GOP establishment.

None of these people, not one, would have been elected without the Tea Party. The GOP establishment was backing Charlie Christ, some hack in Kentucky, and a Democrat in Wisconsin.

[Paine in the Neck]

Great minds, yada yada yada. You know the rest!

Apparently, half the thread is made up of great minds ;-)

[GraceG]

[ My father taught me to never trust a guy wearing a bowtie. ]

Trust me, I'm the Doctor!!!

[mewzilla]

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue

[dfwgator]

If the GOP doesn’t have Scott Walker’s back in Wisconsin, then I am done with them for good.

[NoGrayZone]

Seems to be so!!! FR rocks!