Has the Tea Party been tamed?

The Hill's Ballot Box ^ | November 6, 2014 | Alexandra Jaffe and Ben Kamisar

[2ndDivisionVet]

Establishment Republicans are crowing that their resounding wins Tuesday night repudiated the Tea Party’s insistence that ideological purity is key to electoral success.

But don’t tell that to conservatives, who aren’t admitting defeat.

In fact, they’re claiming victory on the issues, if not for the candidates themselves, and pledging future fights to hold the GOP-led Senate accountable if senators stray from their campaign promises. “Every single Republican ran as a conservative,” Brent Bozell, chairman of ForAmerica, told The Hill. “Name me one moderate issue that won. Moderation was defeated everywhere.”

The numbers don’t bear that out. The national party made an early and aggressive play to neutralize conservative challenges and make sure the most electable candidates won the party’s nominations, to great effect.

"We said we were going to be the Nick Saban of recruiting, we were going to recruit the best candidates, put them in the right position," National Republican Senatorial Committee Political Director Ward Baker told reporters Thursday. "We decided we couldn't be Akin-ed anymore. No more witches, no more gaffes."

In the end, conservatives won just one of their competitive primary fights in the Nebraska Senate race, lost all of their incumbent challenges and worked with establishment Republicans to support less-than-ideal candidates to achieve the shared goal of taking back Senate control....

[P-Marlowe]

We aren’t tamed, it’s just that we’re all broke. We can’t compete with the chamber of commerce.

[DaveyB]

When they told you there was no such thing as a stupid question, they lied. This headline proves it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Denial. It’s not just a river in Africa.

[Don Corleone]

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with
the average voter.” Winston Churchill

[Jim Robinson]

Who do they think drug these RINOs over the line?

[11th_VA]

They should have interviewed Cantor for this article ...

[SoConPubbie]

Hell NO!

[ifinnegan]

Ha!

Great one.

These GOPe are obsessed with Akin and O’Donnell.

[joshua c]

What do you call the Republican Party without the conservative vote?

The Whigs

[bergmeid]

Watch how tame I am going to be when Jeb Bush becomes the GOP nominee for president.

[DoughtyOne]

Tamed?

Has the Constitution ceased to exists?  Have people lost interest in defending it?  Have good wholesome values ceased to exist?

Tame?  LOL

The Tea Party is just getting started.  Weep Leftists, we're coming for you...


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[muir_redwoods]

Eric Cantor could not be reached for comment.

[Amendment10]

The question is not if the TP has been tamed or not, but if patriots have used their voting muscle to force the corrupt feds back in to their constitutional Article I, Secton 8-limited power cage. And at this point the answer is definitely no imo.

[DJ MacWoW]

Everytime I see insulting things written about “the Tea Party” I know who wrote it is an idiot. The Tea Party is nothing more than a group of fed up American voters. Everytime an idiot attacks them they are attacking average Americans.

[Billthedrill]

I’ll answer the headline writer this way: Dunno, why don’t you ask a Tea Party member that you know? Because the answer inevitably is “I don’t know any.” It shows.

[Seaplaner]

Good comments above.

That said, the Tea Party should consider changing its name to...

... The Traditional Republican Party

.

[InterceptPoint]

I'm hoping that some Freeper (and of course I nominate Impy) with a lot of time on their hands will give us a summary of the new Senate and House members from a Tea Party point of view. We may not have succeeded in picking the most conservative candidates but are we really all that unhappy with the folks we ended up with?

I'm not sure. I'm really not. Someone needs to give us some feedback on just how RINOish these guys and gals are.

And ... if the GOPe types out there think this WAVE ELECTION would have happened without the support of the Tea Party leaning Republicans they are just kidding themselves. This election was not a victory for the GOPe. But it was a huge defeat for Obamanism.

[skinkinthegrass]

"*HELL NO!*"I agree with that statement, *HELL NO!* (echo)
the Washington GOP/e ignores US @ their peril.

[WilliamRobert]

In the docudrama America, Desousa quotes Alinsky “uou either have money or you have people” boots on the ground is the way to beat this. Door to door pressing flesh stating our case and educating people. Loud proud and in their face till they scream uncle.