The 2014 Senate primary skirmish in the larger Republican civil war has been decided mostly for the establishment. And my, how the vanquished do whine about it. Seems that everyone is to blame for their losses, everyone but the tea party candidates themselves, anyway.
Take Bill Connor. He was one of the multitude challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and he's actually blaming the tea party. He says they promised him funding that never materialized and that he "felt a bit like sticking the neck out and being left in the cold." In that race, FreedomWorks president blames Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), who Kibbe says let himself be persuaded by Graham to stay out of the primary. And other tea party groups blame the establishment for the fact that they talk people like Connor into running and then don't support them.
"Fighting the establishment is never going to be easy. In almost all cases, our guys and gals, our folks get outspent almost across the board," says Kevin Broughton, spokesman for Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund. Then there's Dwayne Stovall in Texas, in another crowded primary against Sen. John Cornyn, who blames some nameless someone who didn't tell him exactly what he was in for. "I wasn't groomed or developed or had the bloodline to be an establishment or a chosen candidate," he said. Damn someone for not telling him that he wasn't qualified to be running!
But the best blamer is easily Matt Bevin, who failed to beat Mitch McConnell and his cronies. Louisville tea party president Andrew Schachnter says it's all Sen. Rand Paul's fault. "Him endorsing Mitch McConnell early on really limited the activists we could convince to join us." And Bevin blames all of the lily-livered people who didn't vote for him.
and all those right wing voters were thinking Pres. was the reason for all that ends all because they told us so but how could they know they are in the midst of a finger pointing civil war if they can't decide who's guilty probably because no one will admit it, if they can't find the guilt in front of them they should have known that it didn't exist where they were looking would be even harder to find before they wasted millions of tax dollars. think about it are they qualified to lead when they can spend 6 years looking in a wrong direction and having no experience on a job they never did?
