If
the Tea Party is a Loser, so was George Washington
The media consensus is that the tea party lost big
this GOP primary election cycle.
No it didn’t.
Not by a long shot. The very fact
that the liberal media and Harry Reid continue to obsess over the tea party
movement is proof positive of that fact.
That the moderate Republican Party establishment –
in Nevada and across the country - spent small fortunes on race after race to
keep conservative candidates out of elected office and did the Snoopy Dance
every time an underfunded tea party candidate came up short on Election Day
demonstrates the ongoing power and influence the tea party movement continues
to wield in the GOP.
Let’s face it: Elected officials enjoyed a 90
percent or better re-election rate LONG before the dawn of the tea party
movement. That is a testament to the
power of incumbency, not any weakness of the tea party/conservative movement. Incumbents have all the connections, all the
major endorsements, all the most experienced campaign consultants…and money
coming out of their wazoos.
In most cases it would take a miracle to unseat ANY
incumbent member of Congress, regardless of the philosophical disposition of
the challenger. That tea party candidates
were unsuccessful in dethroning super-powerful incumbents in GOP primaries this
year was neither a shock nor a surprise.
Disappointing for conservatives, sure. But far from unexpected.
For those whose depth of political strategic
thinking roughly equates to that of a parking lot puddle, the election results
- in which tea party candidates did not pull off large numbers of miraculous
upset victories - is seen as a failure.
And as we witnessed in race after race this year –
at the local, state and national levels - it was all about winning at any and
all cost for the establishment. Truth,
honesty and character were religiously sacrificed at Al Davis’ altar of “Just
Win, Baby” (ask your granddad).
There was no honor in many of those victories,
especially the primary re-election win of Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.
The GOP establishment only saved his scalp by turning out Democrat voters to
vote against the conservative tea party challenger in a Republican primary.
Yeah, that’s a win to be proud of. You go, girls!
The very fact that so many entrenched, well-funded
incumbents and anointed establishment candidates faced credible, viable
challenges from inexperienced/under-funded, but principled, challengers exposes
the continued weakness in the GOP. And contrary
to liberal and establishment opinion, the tea party isn’t dead; it lived to
fight another day.
Anyone who knows anything about history knows that
George Washington’s Continental Army also lost most of their major early
skirmishes against the almighty British Empire – aided and abetted by colonial
sell-outs and turncoats - in the Revolutionary War.
How’d that turn out again?
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