The tea party isn’t just losing; it’s losing badly

More from the Tea Party "losing" news, Joni Ernst wins the Senate primary in Iowa as Tea Party favorite:


Iowa Republican lawmaker Joni Ernst won her party's Senate primary race Tuesday night, after pulling ahead in a crowded field thanks to clever campaign ads and support from Tea Party favorites.

The 43-year-old Ernst, a state senator, handily won the nomination, receiving enough votes to avoid a nominating convention in the five-way race. She'll face Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in the November general election to replace retiring Democrat Tom Harkin, who held the seat for 30 years.

Ernst attracted national attention after she released an ad in March playfully suggesting her experience on her family’s farm castrating pigs will translate to her cutting “pork” in Congress, pledging to “make ‘em squeal.”

The attention helped her languishing fundraising efforts and made her the frontrunner for the first open Senate seat in the state in three decades.

Ernst told a crowd of cheering supporters after being declared the winner that she is running to represent "Iowa values" in Washington.

“I’m running for Senate because Iowa means everything to me," she said.

Ernst also spoke to the supporters of her competitors, urging them to seek common ground to come together to defeat Braley.

 

And more from the Tea Party "losing badly", Chris McDaniel locked with Cochran in a tight lead against the incumbent.



One of the closest and most dramatic Senate races in the country took another turn Tuesday. Conservative insurgent Chris McDaniel narrowly defeated Thad Cochran in Mississippi but failed to top the 50 percent threshold required to avoid a runoff.

With 49.6 percent of the vote to Cochran’s 48.9 percent, McDaniel and the six-term lawmaker will lsquare off again in three weeks.

If the order of finish holds, Cochran will be the first incumbent senator to lose a re-election bid this cycle.

“This is a historic moment in this state’s history,” McDaniel told supporters at his election night rally, but added, “Our fight is not over. … Whether it’s tomorrow or three weeks from now, we will stand victorious in this race.” Cochran did not address supporters at the end of the night.

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The left wing, the GOP establishment (which backed Thad with 12 million smackers), and the MSM fear the tea party because they are a direct threat to the status quo. They have done their best to intimidate through IRS, to demonize by taking a very few bad actors and portraying the entire mindset as racist and extremist, and essentially try and tell the country it is a failed movement, but yet they are still here, they are making gains, and they are a factor. Wake up, Rove.

 

Well, if there was a primary election that could prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that Covertibility is completely full of horseshit with this thread, it is the fact that Eric Cantor just lost.

 

This thread by covertibility should be framed, as the best fade in the history of ET, since posting, the Tea Party has locked in one major victory after another, including knocking off Eric Cantor. The only call ive seen on ET that was worse than this was the "Housing Rolling Along" thread where covertibility was saying there was no bubble in housing in 2006.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...da5d20-f092-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

 

In a statement, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Cantor's loss, "settles the debate once and for all - the Tea Party has taken control of the Republican Party. Period."
http://abc7chicago.com/news/huge-upset-top-house-republican-loses-to-tea-party-challenger/106856/

 

I guess people's "impotent rage" wasn't so tonight.

 

Whoever said that was probably looking at things through the lens of their personal problems