PrintNovember 18, 2010
Lap Two for the Tea Party
Politics is a relay race, not a sprint, which means that those of us who belong to the Tea Party or support its goals must start thinking about the kind of candidates we'll run in 2012.In this year's elections -- Lap One, so to speak -- the Tea Party demonstrated what so many of us have always known but couldn't prove: namely, that this is a center-right country. The Tea Party did this by keeping the Republican Party from blowing an historic opportunity (no mean feat, alas) and then by pulling in virtually every "small-c" conservative voter. With so many Democrats and other liberals too disheartened to cast their ballots, this was enough to push a lot of Republican candidates over the top.This won't be enough to win Lap Two. By 2012, the president and his White House team will have recovered from their 2010 election debacle. So, too, will the Democrats in Congress and in the fifty state legislatures. Moreover, because politics is a tough business and because no one is...(Read Full Article)
