Tea Party Scrambles to Stay Relevant: Finally Understands The GOP Needs to Win the Senate

I am glad that the GOP establishment and business leaders are trying to smash these idiots.

More troubling to movement leaders, GOP moneyed interests are taking aim at Tea Party lawmakers deemed disruptive and bad for the brand. Rep. Justin Amash’s hard line on the debt ceiling, for instance, outraged key business interests, including the Chamber of Commerce, which have lined up behind his primary challenger, Brian Ellis. Tea Party Express is keeping a close eye on the race, and FreedomWorks has vowed to defend Amash “punch-for-punch.”  “Five years ago, I never would have imagined the Republican Party would be coming after people the Tea Party had gotten elected,” says Keli Carender, the national grassroots coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots. “It still shocks me.”  

At the same time, Tea Partyers are fending off Republican attempts to “kneecap” the movement as a whole, says Carender. “What they’re trying to do right now is build the meme that groups like ours and the Senate Conservatives Fund are in it ‘for profit.’ ” It’s a play to discredit TPP with the conservative base and peel away the small-dollar donors it relies on, charges Carender: “Not only are we fighting liberals in the Democrat Party and liberals in the Republican Party, now we’re having to fight to maintain credibility with the base.”

Their stupidity on the debt ceiling fight needs to doom them to the dustbin of history but I think someone somewhere took them aside and told them who the real enemy is.

Goal Three, says Brandon, is identifying the best opportunities to turn blue seats red—and here is where movement leaders can sound so pragmatic you wonder if you’ve dialed Karl Rove’s house by mistake. Budowich explains, “As the movement has matured, now it’s not just about making that stand but about creating a mathematical possibility to make policy differences.” He repeatedly stresses, “Our prime objective in 2014 is to take back the Senate. The only way we can do that is by defeating Democrats.” RINO hunting is all well and good, says Budowich, but targeting “squishy Republicans” won’t pry control of the Senate away from Harry Reid.

Um, yeah John McCain is not the enemy Harry Reid is. I'm glad there are some grown-ups in the Tea Party. They should know that every time they get rid of a strong GOP candidate and replace him with some idiot the Dems will hold that seat. Now they need to have a big meeting and tell everyone "do not talk about women's issues for any reason." They need to only talk about three things Obamacare, obamacare, obamacare and they will take the Senate.