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Did Tea Party Help or Hurt GOP Senate Chances?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party-backed candidates helped and hindered Republicans, injecting enthusiasm into campaigns but losing Senate seats held by Democrats in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada that the GOP once had big hopes of capturing.

Republican leaders and strategists are muttering that the same tea party activists who elevated Speaker-to-be John Boehner and the party to power in the House simultaneously hobbled the GOP’s outside shot of running the Senate. Tea partiers largely spurned establishment candidates in the GOP primaries and helped nominate Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Ken Buck in Colorado.

All three lost on Tuesday.

“You let the voters decide” the nominees, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Friday. “It’s a risk. Voting is a risk.”

Republicans won Senate races in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That put them within three seats of a 50-50 split. In the case, Vice President Joe Biden would have broken the tie and allowed Democrats to retain their majority.

If they could have managed a split, however, Republicans would have pushed hard to switch some lawmakers, with the likely target Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. He‘s an independent who votes with the Democrats but strongly supported Republican John McCain’s 2008 presidential bid. Others considered Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota a possibility.

All those what-ifs fell apart, though, in three states.

In Delaware, tea party activists rallied behind O’Donnell over nine-term moderate Republican Rep. Mike Castle. Party leaders tried to crush O’Donnell; the state party chairman said she could not be elected dogcatcher, much less a senator.

Voters went with O’Donnell and Republican officials in Washington largely abandoned the race. There were revelations about financial troubles and the emergence of TV footage in which she spoke out against masturbation and talked about dabbling in witchcraft as a teenager.

On Friday, she blamed Washington Republicans for her loss to Democrat Chris Coons.

“In just the six weeks that we had, if we didn’t have that network, that machine, mechanism to plug into like other candidates did, we had to spend the time rebuilding that, establishing the grass-roots network to get out the vote,” she told NBC’s “Today” show. “And also defending the accusations that even my own party was putting out. So it was too heavy of a lift for one entity.”

In Nevada, voters nominated Angle to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who had to overcome low approval ratings and the state’s high unemployment. They rejected state lawmaker Sue Lowden, who was considered a more polished candidate and was a state party chairwoman — too much of an establishment credential for voters looking for something new.

Angle was dogged by missteps. She told a group of Hispanic students they looked Asian, drew ridicule for avoiding reporters and suggested a “militant terrorist situation” has allowed Islamic religious law to take hold in some American cities.

“My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas, are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don’t know how that happened in the United States,” she said. “It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.”

Dearborn has a thriving Muslim community. It was not immediately clear why Angle singled out Frankford, which was annexed into Dallas around 1975.

Unlike in Delaware, national Republicans and their allies stood with Angle and waged a bruising campaign that came up short against Reid.

In Colorado, Republicans nominated tea party favorite Ken Buck over Lt. Gov. Jane Norton. Republicans hoped Norton would have an easy race against Sen. Michael Bennet, appointed to the seat that Ken Salazar vacated when he stepped down to become President Barack Obama’s interior secretary.

“Did they help Ken Buck win the nomination? You bet,” said Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams. “Were they responsible for his defeat? Absolutely not.”

Bennet, a former school superintendent, had never been elected statewide and Democrats readied for a tough campaign against Norton, a former Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration official.

Buck, a district attorney, proved an easier opponent. Although he had tea party backing, he also had expressed views that Democrats seized on to peel away enough voters, mostly women who disagreed with his comments on rape and abortion.

While Wadhams said he “can only deal with the reality of what happened,” he also noted voters gave Republicans two new House members — the first time since 1964 that Colorado ousted two Democratic incumbents in the same year — and picked up the state House. They also gave Bennet a narrow 15,000-vote victory out of almost 1.7 million ballots cast.

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  • printdesignchicago.com
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:56pm

    the tea party can be credited for waking up a lot of republicans AND democrats. or for making THEM notice that WE ARE AWAKE AND WATCHING THEM NOW!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:46am

      100% agree. The only difference between the R‘s and D’s, the R’s would kill America at a slower pace. None are to be trusted. All should be on a short chain, with a choke collar!

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  • SaintMichael
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:53pm

    I do not really care if it hurt the GOP or not. I belong to the Tea Party. It is a label representing my philosophy asa voter. If the GOP wishes to align, then we can ally. If not, then I can support independents who better represent me.

    The game has changed. The only ones that seem to have learned that are Rush, Palin, Rubio and a few others. Republicans are a pawn the Tea Party is very willing to sacrifice, should it come to that.

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  • juliaflyte
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:52pm

    The Tea Party is the best thing that ever happened to conservative Republicans. It’s a nightmare to the progressive ones.

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  • Lare Bilton
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:45pm

    Let’s all chip in a few bucks and get a TEA PARTY BLIMP started. We can fly over Pelosi’s house during her weekend afternoon cocktail parties and then make our rounds over the Blue states as a reminder of better things to come for this great country. If any red candidates get sidetracked a flyover their domain will also put them on notice.

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  • snuss
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:42pm

    The Tea Party Movement is saving the Republican party of RINO’s from themselves. The recent victories were the result of the Tea Party Movement support and not the RNC.

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  • roberja
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:40pm

    The tea parties are doing the job expected of them by our founding fathers. Patriots should keep an eye on what is being done in their names by citizen legislators and not by professional politicans eg Harry Reid.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:01am

      Very well said.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:50am

      “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.” Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776

      http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/to-throw-off-such-government/

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    • jeffdubya
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 5:07pm

      Well, this is a problem with a very simple solution. The GOP should immediately begin advancing QUALITY constitutional conservatives as their candidates. If they had done that, instead of propping up wanna be’s and RINOs they might have taken the senate as well. I don’t give a crap if the GOP wins or not, and many feel the same way. Right now, we are more likely to get a candidate from that side who most closely represents our values and principles. Hey Michael Steele, it could be worse… it could be 2012 after your newly elected members act like RINOs and you are facing a third party. Yes, the ultimate result of splitting the vote in that election is conservative losses, we can handle that. You wouldn’t be around in 2014 and 2016, so it’s a one time revolt. Better shape up. Mr. Steele, PLEASE RESIGN.

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  • roseinbloom
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:37pm

    what happened nov 2 was not just a wave; it was a storm surge! without the tea party, there would have been no energy, no focus, no real clear message from the establishment. i am satisfied with a greater majority in the senate. by the time 2012 comes around, there will be another wave breaking with stronger tp candidates. just wait….

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:33pm

    for EVERYONES INFO——the progressives are in the republican party also—so dont get slack!!
    When you here names like—-neo cons, rinos, moderates, compassionate conservativism–these are
    progressive code names—–they are wiley “deceitful snakes” and YES- Mcain is a progressive,
    he heard one to many Hanoi Jane broadcast—–hes a one world wannabe—ariz-you ought to be ashamed of yourself realecting this man

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:31pm

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  • conservativeme
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:29pm

    Look – you can’t win them all. The Tea Party backed candidates did amazing! The Republicans did amazing. Let’s just start looking ahead to 2012! We’ll get the rest of them then!

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  • vahunters
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:24pm

    Karl Rove and the other elitists within the GOP are the one’s who cost us Delaware. They tried to muscle O’Donnel out of the race in favor of “their” puppet. The GOP and Karl Rove are part of our problem. They got us in this mess by not doing what the voters wanted when we held the majority. This recent election was a deliberate wake up call to the status quo politicians & not only a complete rejection of Obama’s entire policy playbook. The biggest fear in Washington by both sides of the aisle is if the Tea Party keeps its fervor and gains force in 2012. I encourage all Tea Party people to infiltrate the local GOP and make changes locally. No more McCain/Spector/Crist/Graham rinos.

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    • snuss
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:07am

      Well said, the Republican party is overloaded with RINO’s (Karl Rove) for example, John reach across the isle Mcstain, Olympia Snow the list goes on and on.

      Go Tea Party Movement the conservative power house.

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:24pm

    I say it “ONLY HELPED” it JERKED this-neo-con-rino-trojan horse arzzzz “ESTABLISHMENT BACK WHERE IT BELONGS——-”Constitutional/Conservatives Principles” for the time being…
    I left the republicrap party in 88 when bush sr was elected——when he was talking about the NWoder
    I made my exit——I have been studying this stuff for 30yrs now-(UN)internationally, GB has been connecting the dots Nationally—-hes right on……….I check

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:21pm

    The Tea Party helped the American people take their government back. Who cares about the GOP?

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    • teahugger
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:49pm

      yep, yep!!!

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:00am

      whatever it takes.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:05am

      Well I think it is easier for the TEA Party to take over the GOP than to start a new party (and third parties fail — historically) … I have joined the local Republican womens club .. and many many of the members are TEA party it starts at the grass roots!

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 6:45am

      @CatB
      I would agree. We should restore the GOP to its core principals rather than try to create a third party. But the focus should be what‘s good for the country and not what’s good for the party. Christine O’Donnell won an important victory by thwarting the GOP establishment in Delaware. The GOP establishment has lost touch with its constituents and it needs to reform.

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  • bobmontgomery
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:20pm

    The Tea Party hurt the Democrat Party. Oh, and the ethics committee hearings start in about a week; and the Obama hearings start in January.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:16pm

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  • Lare Bilton
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:16pm

    Instead of thinking about the losses that cost the Republicans the Senate I think about “what if” the Tea Party never existed and what would be the results of Tuesday’s elections. I believe there would be 10 to 20 less Red victories in the house and senate. There was an electorate revolution on Tuesday and the Tea Party had a lot to due with the results. Sure they lost several key states…Blue States I believe. I see a successful future for Tea Party candidates. The learning curve from this past election eve will only strengthen the selection, qualifications and campaign management for those individuals carrying the Tea Party endorsements.

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  • joseph Fawcett
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:15pm

    I believe the nest time around the Tea Party will be stronger and more able to back and win more seats and even the Whitehouse. We have just begun and we are the people. I at first wasn’t behind the Tea Party at all, because I have lived long enough to see these movements start and fizzle out right after the election. Not the Tea Party, because the cause is not about one set of canditates but about the Goverment itself. We are a like minded people and we are sick and tired of the Goverment invading our lives and not protecting our boarders. We are sick and tired of the Goverment spending our futures on whims and wishes, while digging the hole of our debt so deep we can’t even see the bottom. We want our country back, we want our lives back and live in peace.

    http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:59am

      If you take in boarders, it’s up to you to protect them – after all, you’re their landlord. This seems to me to be a matter for individual landlords and local police, not the responsibility of Congress or the President.

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  • GWSchool.Net
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:11pm

    The only thing the tea party is trying to do – is to hold people accountable for the oath they have taken to uphold the constitution. If they don’t want to uphold the constitution, they shouldn’t have signed up for the job. There is a great free course on the Constitution at http://www.gwschool.net.

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  • lbsm
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:08pm

    the tea party didnt ruin anything…the establishment has ruined this country though

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  • CatB
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:05pm

    Why do the RINO’s assume that their candidates would have won? Without the TEA Party they would not have gotten such a mandate in the House and State Governors and so many State Senate seats and local election wins. They are on probation … do NOT try to go back to your RINO ways or next election we will go after the rest of you. Drink TEA!

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  • roberja
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:05pm

    I believe it is a blessing in disguise that the Republicans lost the Senate. Obama‘s party can’t blame its failures on them. Our time is coming in 2012. However, the dems’s agenda will be damaged.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:11pm

      Exactly … had they won both the House and Senate .. Obama would be blaming them for everything .. he can try but old Harry Reid is still Majority leader of the Senate…

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    • teahugger
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:48pm

      Unfortunately, Obama managed to blame republicans when they had NO control in the house or senate, and blame Bush when he’d been out of the white house a couple years. Not only that, but democrats take credit for the budget policies under Clinton, when the republicans had control of congress. You can’t win with these people, ’cause there isn’t any logic, just spin.

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    • neverending
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:57pm

      Just hope everybody steps back and takes a deep breath before 2012 since 2010 was not the “earthquake” they talked about. Only about 32% of tea party backed candidates won in congress and a little less then that since we lost 2 more today. Not a whole lot to hang our hats on – we won a very small battle but the war is from over. Many of us were very surprised because the angry we thought was so wide spread and strong didn’t measure up otherwise we would not have lost some of the biggest ones and the ones that we won would have been by a much wider margin. We just cannot give in to little barry boy – if we are the party of no that sobeit – happy to be called that if it means taking down the socialist/marxist/commie gang in the whitehouse.

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    • SJJB
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:46am

      I agree. Obama and the democrats along with some RINOS in the GOP has put us where we are today with the economy and high unemployment. If the GOP would have won the Senate then in the 2012 election the democrats and Obama would have blamed the GOP. The media which now is just another extension of the democrat party will go right along with it. They still blame Bush but the democrats were in control of the House and Senate which the media conveniently ignores.

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  • Sunnyr
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:04pm

    The Tea Party was good for Republicans period. I am glad we didn’t take the Senate because Obozo would have used it to try and gain points for the upcoming 2012 election. He would be pounding the drum about “the party of NO” and obstructionism day and night. I think we will be able to get moderate Dems to vote with us and Obama can’t say much about it. If he does, his own party will turn on him even more than they have already. It’s going to be an interesting couple of years and if the Market loves Gridlock, they are going to be in heaven. We MUST block Obama’s agenda any way we can.

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    • Rosey
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:27am

      “I am glad we didn’t take the Senate because Obozo would have used it to try and gain points for the upcoming 2012 election. He would be pounding the drum about “the party of NO” and obstructionism day and night.”
      Not that I disagree but he did that anyway when MOAba had a super majority and could do anything he wanted to and most of the MSM (including Fox) and therefore alot of the general public believed THE ONE. He’ll do it again and once again, even though it has merit now, there will be a lot of the LSM (including those at Fox) that will buy it. I hope conservatives realize that is exactly what the general pop want right now IS for someone to say NO!

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  • island granny
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:02pm

    I find it interesting that the ‘establishment’ believes this is just a referendem on the democrats. The progressives in the democratic party are just more agressive than those in the republican party. This Country has a Constitution…that is the Foundation of this Country. We are not up for a change in that Foundation of this Country. Go back into hiding…(you can always all pack up and move out of this Country that you hate so much!!)

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:24am

      Karl Rove the rino hugger & the party hacks can see the writing on the wall. Their day of back room deals and king making has come and gone. Make no mistake they hate the tea party more than the Libs.

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  • WORKS FROM HOME
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:01pm

    The TEA party isnt here to help GOP. We are here to restore America. We will still be here next election.
    Watch Your Reps and don’t let them get away with anything.
    Learn to blog and make a passive income.
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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:12pm

      Exactly! We wanted REAL conservatives, not just another politician who happens to put an ‘R’ after their name. The ‘R’ doesn‘t mean anything if you’re of the progressive mindset. The people are taking THEIR government back!

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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:39pm

      We don’t need to be paid to blog though, that’s for media matters.

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:54pm

      I’ll take a piece of that, It’s not about the D s or R s, commies hide in both. We are looking for character and Patriots. It just so happens that the D s are the most infected at the moment. As we root them out they will switch shirts and we will be there.

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    • ClassicalLiberal
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:10am

      This is obvious.

      Ya, Progressivism D or R is the disease. At least many are coming out from hiding behind “liberalism”.
      http://traditionalliberalism.blogspot.com/2010/10/terminological-theft-liberalism.html

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:38am

      First of all and let me say this loud and clear, The establishment GOP does not and will never in the future tell WE THE PEOPLE who OUR candidates will be. WE THE PEOPLE would rather lose a race with a candidate of our choice who reflects OUR principles than reward the progressives in the GOP with majorities that undermine those principles. The Tea Partys shook the world on Nov. 2 and this is only the beginning. And we will not forget your words of scorn for WE THE PEOPLE Nov. 2 2012. Please, I beg you GOP establishment, please keep going on record insulting us. That way we have concrete evidence for the political ads to run against you. The Tea Party is here to stay and WE THE PEOPLE ARE COMING FOR YOU. We are the boss, you are the servants to the will of the people. Don’t you forget that.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on November 6, 2010 at 10:57pm

    Duh

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    • 2
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:13pm

      HELPED!
      That was 1 election. Wait for 3, 4 or 5 more. People know what has to be done and the ones who don’t will soon enough.

      OPEN YOUR EYES EVERYONE. TIME TO WAKE UP ONE MORE PERSON EACH!
      WHEN BLACK FOLKS DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS GOING ON!

       
    • RobertCA
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:18pm

      Let it be a lesson for both parties now matter who they are , if you‘re not gonna listen to WE THE PEOPLE you’ll be voted out .
      The Tea Party is here to remind the crooks ( on both sides ) in DC that “ WE THE PEOPLE ” still stands .

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on November 6, 2010 at 11:55pm

      The GOP hurt the GOP by not backing candidates like Odonell and if the GOP is going to harbor pseudo conservatives like Lindsay Graham and Trent lot I don’t really care who hurt the GOP. You better make a change boys.

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    • Large Eagle
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:04am

      The GOP hurt the GOP with their arrogant attitude towards (with my pipe) the unacceptable candidate the voters elected during the primaries. ESPECIALLY IN CALIFORNIA – They don’t need to make marijuana legal because ever one is stoned 24/7 on drugs, money or sex. God help us in the Golden State

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:11am

      My new Senator … I think we HELPED .. and are the future … from Sunday’s New York Times

      http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/marco-rubio-florida-new/2010/11/06/id/376222?s=al&promo_code=B107-1

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    • Dstarr55
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:19am

      I agree with Ironman – the people who did the most damage in Delaware was Karl Rove and the establishment of the Republican Party – it was bad enough the left-wing media was trashing her but having Rove and company vilify her as well only lowered her in the eyes of Delaware. I really don’t think Mike Castle would have fared any better – he was a relic who was past his expiration date that wasn’t even noble enough to support his opponent who beat him fair and square. As Beck pointed out – the people making a third party is the Republican establishment, such as Lisa Murkowski and Charlie Crist, not the tea party.

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:10am

      @ LARGE EAGLE

      CA is going downhill @ 200MPH , so sad to see that Boxer ( Barb ) & Brown with their ( keep spending $$$$ ) policies are in office .

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:12am

      Hmmm. O’Donnell, “I’m not a witch”. Angle, Child rape victims should make “lemonaid” out of their violent defilement. Joe Miller, end handouts, for everyone else that is after he got his. Yes these candidates caused the loss of The Senate. All those who blame the GOP should leave it. I’m an old school guy and these shallow twits are not Republicans as I have known them to be over four decades of voting. The Tea Party is pushing way to hard to the right against safety nets such as unemployment insurance. Heaven help us if the poor ever start to vote in large numbers especially now that we have more of them now than ever and with the safety nets greatly reduced. Eventually these folks may actually realize the power of the ballot box. Is it better to throw them some crumbs in the form of welfare, housing assistance and food stamps and keep them fat and lazy or cut them off and have them starving, homeless and desperate especially with easy accesability to firearms?

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:14am

      Oh and it’s pretty apparent that The Blaze message board is a defacto ****** forum so I welcome your hate.

       
    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:18am

      Agree with the blazers here, the GOP hurt the GOP, as the Progressives hurt the Progressives, the Democrats themselves, etc. These political elites of all sides, now have indeed to worry, for the people of America have spoken; and now the true work of reclaiming the country and the government for the people, of the people, and by the people continues forward.

      If anyone of any group truly is for the people, and supports the restoration of the constitution with limited government, and works for this (their actions speak their motives) then great. Otherwise the people will get rid of them and find another who will.

      The question is asked now “Who am I? I am (insert your own decision here).”

      The People of America have spoken, and still speak, that we are the “We The People Of The United States Of America!!!”

      Listen DC, listen Congress, Listen Mr Obama, for We have spoken, loud and clear.

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    • StMichelob
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:32am

      GOPATHIEST, I both agree and disagree with you… Yes, these three were the undesirables of the GOP in this election, and although the alternative were socialist Obama mouthpieces, they did not connect with the middle ground folk. On the other hand, you advocate rewarding the lazy because they have easy access to guns? That is asinine and insane. You are advocating pre-paying extortion, instead of advocating the Tea Party message of “pull yourself up by your own boot-straps”. I ain’t having it. And if the poor, disinfranchised welfare babies wanna rise up with guns, they’ll find an equally well armed and motivated populace who have no problem with defending their lives and property.
      I will be among them.
      Semper Fi.

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    • Doc_Slammin
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 4:37am

      My thoughts exactly, Duh!

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    • rebel
      Posted on November 7, 2010 at 6:07am

      totally doesn’t matter if it hurt them. they would’ve had 100% support if they’d been doing the right thing!

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