The Tea Party strike again!

[Stephanie]

oh brother

for wrightwhiner being a supposed Republican he sure has a special hardon for people in his party

you go making up things as you see it

the big bad ole tea party STRIKES AGAIN

 

[Dot Com]

The Virginia GOP actually blew the gubernatorial race a year and a half ago - The Week

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is poised on Tuesday to win Virginia's gubernatorial election — even though a plurality of voters there don't like him. the state GOP shot itself in the foot by nominating the Tea Party-aligned Cuccinelli in the first place. Outgoing Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling (R) could have been hours away from being elected the commonwealth's next chief executive. Under a widely-known deal struck back in 2009, Bolling agreed to not challenge Gov. Bob McDonnell, then the state's AG, in a primary, instead deferring to him with the understanding he would serve as the Virginia GOP's next standard-bearer

Ahead of the Virginia GOP's June 2012 convention, Cuccinelli's "Tea Party supporters quietly took control of the state GOP leadership," according to the American Prospect's Abby Rapoport and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux. Then, despite protests from Bolling and McDonnell, the new party leaders voted to reverse course and nominate candidates for statewide office not through a primary, but through a closed convention "where the extreme wing of the party was more likely to be in attendance."

In June, convention attendees handed Cuccinelli the nomination. They also nominated far-right firebrand preacher E. W. Jackson — a man who likened yoga to Satanism and warned against Obama's "Muslim sensibilities" — to run as the party's Lieutenant Governor nominee.

In short, convention participants sacrificed bipartisan appeal for ideological purity, leaving the party with two dyed-in-the-wool conservatives whose views no longer represented a majority of voters in the increasingly purple state.

that about sums it up Righties/teatards/SOCONs

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The Virginia GOP actually blew the gubernatorial race a year and a half ago - The Week

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is poised on Tuesday to win Virginia's gubernatorial election — even though a plurality of voters there don't like him. the state GOP shot itself in the foot by nominating the Tea Party-aligned Cuccinelli in the first place. Outgoing Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling (R) could have been hours away from being elected the commonwealth's next chief executive. Under a widely-known deal struck back in 2009, Bolling agreed to not challenge Gov. Bob McDonnell, then the state's AG, in a primary, instead deferring to him with the understanding he would serve as the Virginia GOP's next standard-bearer

Ahead of the Virginia GOP's June 2012 convention, Cuccinelli's "Tea Party supporters quietly took control of the state GOP leadership," according to the American Prospect's Abby Rapoport and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux. Then, despite protests from Bolling and McDonnell, the new party leaders voted to reverse course and nominate candidates for statewide office not through a primary, but through a closed convention "where the extreme wing of the party was more likely to be in attendance."

In June, convention attendees handed Cuccinelli the nomination. They also nominated far-right firebrand preacher E. W. Jackson — a man who likened yoga to Satanism and warned against Obama's "Muslim sensibilities" — to run as the party's Lieutenant Governor nominee.

In short, convention participants sacrificed bipartisan appeal for ideological purity, leaving the party with two dyed-in-the-wool conservatives whose views no longer represented a majority of voters in the increasingly purple state.

Damn, look at all the power you keep saying the Tea Party has. Maybe you could do something about that, and stop raving about them every time you get a chance. If you stop obsessing, they might be less scary.