I guess this is the first test of the over-reach that the Tea Party has brought about.
A tight primary election in an
Alabama Republican stronghold has pitted a business-backed former state
senator against a Tea Party movement favorite in a race highlighting
tensions between the party's pragmatic and ideological wings over the
recent government shutdown.
Major businesses including Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Home Depot Inc
are backing the campaign of former lawmaker Bradley Byrne, saying the
58-year-old attorney better represents their interests than Dean Young, a
wealthy real estate developer running a grass-roots campaign.
It probably won't show much of anything because it is a small race that probably won't get much of a turn out. I hope Byrne wins though. A pro-business/pro-growth Republican is always preferable to slash-and-burn/hurt-my-portfolio Tea Partier any day.
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