Erich Pratt:
Earth to the Republican Party: Ronald Reagan called and he wants his party back.
Both Republicans and Democrats alike were stunned when a write-in candidate trounced the establishment picks for their respective parties in a state senate race last week.
The Republican Tea Party candidate, Scott Wagner, garnered 48 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, as compared to the meager totals by the establishment Republican (27 percent) and the Democrat (26 percent).
Out of more than 22,000 votes cast, Wagner garnered 10,654 write-in ballots. This marks the first time in state history that a write-in candidate has won a state senate seat.To be honest, this kind of shellacking from a write-in candidate is virtually unheard of anywhere in the country. It takes a huge volunteer effort to run against one’s own party, and this recent coup shows that the angst against tone deaf Republican establishment types is substantially growing.
Not surprisingly, GOP officials have ruthlessly attacked Tea Party candidates around the nation, as they almost always run in Republican primaries.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told the New York Times recently that Republicans are going to “crush” the Tea Party everywhere. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country,” he said.
Never mind the fact that four of the most popular Senators in the country — Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida — were Tea Party-backed candidates when they first got elected.
And ignore the fact that a write-in Tea Party candidate just won his race in Pennsylvania.
In that state senate race, the establishment Republicans were attacking Wagner for being an “environmental violator.”
Yes, you read that right. Republicans were attacking one of their own for running a trash hauling company (which is a job creator) and painting the owner as a polluter of the environment.
Perhaps the tea leaves are telling us something.
the TEA-PARTY ARE VERY RESPECTABLE PEOPLE,
AND THEY WON’T JOIN WITH TRASH PEOPLE WHO WOULD SELL THEIR SOUL TO WIN,
AND LIE TO DEMOLISH ANOTHER, LIKE OBAMA DID BEFORE,
This is GREAT…gives me real hope…now PA needs to hold his feet to the fire….
I do hope this spreads… (not the fire)…but perhaps the fire in every American who wants to live in Freedom and believes in Liberty…our Constitution. I do hope people are waking up before it is too late…
Makes me wonder if they think that ‘maybe those Tea Party people know what they are talking about’..