An interesting side note…I received an e-mail blast from Dick Morris’s website today (I’m sure many other people did too) and he had some pretty amazing stats concerning the mid-terms. But, the one that was most troubling was the fact that the Big “O”‘s last week of stumping apparently did have an effect on the election. And that, of course, relates to the infamous “72 hour” thread that has been floating around this site. Great news though, concerning the Tea Party candidates.

Nevada being the most odious/obvious. Only big cities are Reno and LasWages, run by casinos, unions took all casino workers to vote as they watched.

“Going into 2012, that is a fact that pundits and politicians ignore at their peril.”

But going forward, we must work hard to find & advance strong Rubio-esque candidates to oppose & defeat the likes of Snowe in the primaries in order to be sure TEA party folks have solid financial conservatives on the ballot in November rather than the sad, old, “lesser of two evils” dimbulb lite candidates the establishment GOP pushed this time around (e.g., Crist, Coats).

The Tea Party problem is really several problems. The first is identity. The “Tea Party Express” is one of the more active groups arising out of the Tea Party movement, but they are not “THE Tea Party” any more than any other derivative group is: no one can truly claim to represent the movement unless there were some formal membership and election.

The next is “Who is a ‘Tea Party’ candidate?” While Toomey gain TP support, he was a former congressman who had already run for Senate once, not some grassroots candidate. Rubio might not have won without the strong support from TP-ers and conservative bloggers like Red State, but he was the Speaker of the Florida House and a candidate long before the TP noticed.

Like Rubio, O’Donnell could not have won without the TP, but she was a third-time candidate already, not some ordinary citizen inspired by a TP rally.

Now, Miller, Buck, Maes, Johnson, and Angle were probably legitimately “TP” candidates from the start. Of them, only Johnson turned out to be a truly strong candidate (based on all aspects of what that means, not just ideology, not just message and connecting, and not just background and character, but all of the above).

Angle ran as good a campaign as she could, but you can’t beat the Vegas mob/unions in a close race. Not gonna happen. You have to beat them big. Maybe Lowden or Tark could have done that, but they split the vote and Angle won the primary easily.

Tea Party-backed House candidates seemed to perform much better overall. Even many who did not win, like Bielat and McClung, outperformed expectations and put a scare into a “safe” Democrat, which is not unsuccessful. House districts are smaller, more retail politics (except in the low population states) than statewide elections, amateurs tend to fare better.

Another reason to repeal the 17th Amendment (as if that could ever pass the Senate).

to constitutional principles and some fiscal discipline. That’s really about it. Thats the beauty of the tea party movement. Its simple and anyone can understand it.

Everyone had a hand out for donations, and add to that in a bad economy.

I think the people… in we the people… support the concept of the Tea Party, and even though people like Alan Grayson tried to dilute the Tea with a phony Tea Party of Florida which was anything but a real peoples Tea; LOST:) and it served him in his lap! The sap.

The problem is, to become a Senator a candid candidate (if you could find one) almost has to be a politician first… or have enough money to buy name recognition. It is the same problem with getting incumbents out of office, people know the name and that is about all they know about their Senator or Congress person or other politician. Relatively few people have an opportunity or occasion to be involved with what the Incumbent did… other than the press releases that they hear about.

For example: Charlie Crist established a State Wide Grand Jury to be convened in South Florida and it made all the papers… What didn’t make the papers was the fact that he would do nothing about the Corruption in the Village of Palm Springs that was reported to him, time and time again, and the Grand Jury was never actually given the evidence about that well documented Corruption. So do nothing Crist got good press and many of the people bought it. Fortunately for the people, the once wildly popular Crist
LOST his bid against a man who openly professes to believe in God… and the People behind the Tea Party movement.

Thankfully, that Rino is out of the running along with his accomplices Bill McCollum and Alex Sink. Both McCollum and Sink lost their bids to be Governor to the same Rick Scott who they painted as a crook. The people, by a very narrow margin saw through their three finger pointing and decided that a new crook would be better than the old crooks.

Bill Nelson is the next Senator we need to beat. He has been nothing but a loser since he was the Insurance Commissioner who ruined Florida single handedly. But he has the “old” people fooled into believing he cares. I wonder how many of his votes he gets out of the nursing homes? And how many of his constitutes are senile? Oh, can you tell that I am opposed to Bill Nelson?

I’m going to Donate my time, energy and money to defeat him. And yes, I consider myself a Tea Partier. Of course I might want to add a little of that Old Florida Rum to the tea:)

anything to marginalize the Tea Party. But, it isn’t working … they don’t understand us. We are principled. We are fair. We willingly give. These are concepts that the left, who believe that the end justifies the means, doesn’t fathom because they can’t.

is not a party any more than the Sons of Liberty was a party.

But who cares if the MSM ever gets it? We will be replacing them soon, too.

Oh, wait! We already have!!