“Well the GOP should at least be happy there is a tea party republican in the senate instead of a democrat.”
The truth is the GOP elite always prefers a democrat to a tea party republican.
It is much easier to work deals and grand bargains with RATs than men of principal.
They’re both dealmakers and the tea partier is just a troublesome bloke who keeps talking about Founding principles and that archaic document from a bygone age all the Constitution.