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[gnuschler]

Ratcliffe was endorsed by The Club for Growth, the Madison Project, and Senate Conservatives Fund. I don't know enough about him yet, but I will say he is at least an ally.

I am suspicious ... I think this was more about defeating a long-term incumbant than picking up a liberty guy. Ratcliffe never identified himself as a Tea Party candidate and did not solicit Tea Party support until the run-off.

 

[William Tell]

Looking at Ratcliffe's site and where he stands on issues:



Admirable, but I don't see it going anywhere, really. Is Ratcliffe solid or what some would call an ally?

I would imagine he is just another lukewarm Texas Congressman.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

I am suspicious ... I think this was more about defeating a long-term incumbant than picking up a liberty guy. Ratcliffe never identified himself as a Tea Party candidate and did not solicit Tea Party support until the run-off.

Given how the Tea Party is getting spanked in some of these primaries, I can't really blame him for not wanting that label.

 

[William Tell]

Given how the Tea Party is getting spanked in some of these primaries, I can't really blame him for not wanting that label.

Tea Party kicked butt on Tuesday, some of them were fake though.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Tea Party kicked butt on Tuesday, some of them were fake though.

Yeah, maybe, but a lot more of them are getting their butts kicked everywhere else.

 

[William Tell]

Yeah, maybe, but a lot more of them are getting their butts kicked everywhere else.

Yeah, but the media isn't playing fair. Losing to McConnell is not a shock. It's devilish hard to beat any incumbent.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Not playing fair?? How much did the Tea Party target McConnell and headlines followed?

Mitch McConnell Is Now Tea Party Enemy No. 1

In Kentucky, Tea Party activists said McConnell’s role in negotiating the deal with Democratic leaders was disappointing, but not surprising. “He’s catching an awful lot of flak at home for it today, which he deserves,” said Scott Hofstra of the United Kentucky Tea Party, which is supporting Bevin. “It’s just the kind of corruption and backroom deal that we expected of him.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/18/mitch-mcconnell-is-now-tea-party-enemy-no-1.html

Tea Party Sets Its Sights on Mitch McConnell
Tea party vows to defeat McConnell, just as it did Lugar.

Greg Fettig, who helped found the Hoosiers For A Conservative Senate group that assisted upstart candidate Richard Mourdock during the last election cycle, has determined that McConnell GOP primary challenger Matt Bevin is the movement's best chance for a seismic upset this year.

"It is a perfect storm against McConnell," Fettig says. "We don't intend to just give him a good run for his money, we intend to beat him. [If] we beat McConnell, we can prove we can do back-to-back Senate races and we can take anybody out if we work together."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/17/tea-party-sets-its-sights-on-mitch-mcconnell

Tea Party has and still has allies in the press. But they don't have the money or properly tailored message that goes beyond 'Liberty this' and 'Establishment that.' They set their hopes up too high. Even folks here who said things akin to 'When Brannon is in the U.S. Senate alongside Paul, Lee and Cruz' or things of that short can, at times, have too high hopes.