At the time, many of us who supported the Tea Party, hated the Romney nomination, but held our noses for him in November figured that after his failure, we'd get our turn in 2016. Instead, we got another protean Northeastern businessman *and* got blamed for Romney.
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Of all the dumb ideas on Twitter, the single dumbest is the notion that the defeat of John McCain & Mitt Romney proves that movement conservatives can't win national elections.
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The tea party picked some insane fights early on that doomed long term political goals.
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What hurt us most, I think, is that we let the grifters in, much as BLM has, and we didn’t purge them effectively.
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Who even attempted to be in that lane in 2011-12? Bachmann? Perry?
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Perry was the one who was legit, had he been healthy that year.
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Also at its core it was a racist backlash to seeing a black man in the White House. Never forget the racism that was a huge driver of the tea party and trumpism
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And the Tea Party guys running not appealing to voters. Rand Paul is more libertarian than Tea Party and Ted Cruz has about as many people that hate him than like him, and that just in his party.
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"there was no Tea Party presidential nominee in 2012"
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