Tea Party organizer Jamie Radtke is running for the United States Senate from Virginia.  She has already attended her first Senate Tea Party Caucus meeting by request of the caucus.  Sounds like they want her as a colleague.Radtke's a constitutional conservative who isn't afraid to point out the mistakes of establishment big-government Republicans.  As it became clear the Tea Party was the major force of last year's elections, she wrote the GOP is on probation, a phrase copied even by some Republicans in Congress who understand their party is in deep kimchi if they fail to rise to cause.Radtke organized the largest Tea Party convention held to date while running a small business and home schooling her three children.  Add to her resume, which is deeply rooted in small-government conservative policy and politics, that she's a good fundraiser.All that adds up, for now, to her being underestimated by the pundits.  That's good.  Successful conservatives are...(Read Full Post)