The battle to replace Establishment Republicans continues unabated. Don’t be dissuaded by negativity. Don’t give up because it’s looking more and more like Ron Paul will not win the nomination. The Tea Party and the Liberty Movement are here to stay. This is a long-term battle that will take a lot longer than the few months many spend paying attention to presidential races. A number of the supposedly more Liberty-minded individuals listed in the article below are really establishment hacks. Marco Rubio’s foreign policy is that of a Neocon. Fortunately, we have individuals like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz to promote Liberty in a system of government that forgot about it a long time ago.
The question comes two years after it completely dominated the political conversation in 2010, when it was primarily responsible for defeating the Republican establishment in key Senate races such as in Florida (Marco Rubio over Charlie Crist), Kentucky (Rand Paul over Trey Grayson) and Utah (Mike Lee over Robert Bennett). In Pennsylvania, the Tea Party helped Pat Toomey end the GOP career (and Senate career) of Arlen Specter. In Wisconsin, it backed an unknown businessman, Ron Johnson, in his improbable victory over Russ Feingold. And it contributed scores of candidates, money and manpower in the Republicans’ whopping net gain of 63 seats in the House.
There were some defeats, to be sure. They were blamed for throwing away all-but-certain Senate wins in Nevada, Colorado and Delaware, backing candidates (Sharron Angle, Ken Buckand Christine O’Donnell respectively) who won in the primary but fell far short of attracting enough Democratic and independent crossovers to win in November.
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One race that has clearly excited Tea Party activists is tomorrow’s (Tuesday July 31) GOP primary runoff in Texas for the Senate seat of retiring Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison. Their candidate isTed Cruz, the state’s former solicitor general, who is being vastly outspent by his “establishment” opponent, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who led Cruz by ten percentage points in the initial primary back in May.
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