Is The Tea Party Dying In Ted Cruz Country?

[DonViejo]

Tea Party Might Just Fizzle In Ted Cruz's Texas

DANIEL STRAUSS – MARCH 3, 2014, 6:00 AM EST

For Texas tea partiers, Tuesday's primary might just be a grim day. Tea party candidates running in federal elections this cycle have struggled to get a foothold in the Lone Star state as the movement turns five.

The best example of the fizzle is one-time conservative favorite Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX), who's run such an incompetent campaign against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) that even other tea party groups have turned against him.

"I network with over 300 liberty groups in Texas, [and] nobody that I know in the liberty movement went out and recruited Stockman. He just pops out and decided he's going to run," tea party activist JoAnn Fleming told TPM. "Well it doesn't take a whole lot of research before one figures out that Steve Stockman is not someone that you're going to want to hang your movement on."

Fleming said that her group instead would back Dwayne Stovall in protest, a candidate whose chances are even worse than Stockman's and who ran an ad that compared Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to a turtle.

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[catbyte]

1. "Liberty Movement"

I don't know whether to or but definitely will

[dionysus]

3. more like a bowel movement...

[blkmusclmachine]

4. They call it whatever they are against. They think it'll fool people. Idiots.

[Gothmog]

2. I am still hoping that Cornyn has to be in a run off

I would love to see Cornyn have to be in a runoff

[Sunlei]

5. "300 'liberty groups' in Texas" ? must be a lot of competition for 'donations'.

[Chan790]

6. It's a lot like Life of Brian.

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Whenever some 2 people decide they dislike some cosmetic inanity of their tea party group, it's time to start a new group. Splitters. They're worse than 18th century New England villages, constantly starting a new town because the neighbor's son looked at your cow funny.

[erpowers]

7. Tea Party Always Mainly Hype

In my opinion the Tea Party has always been more hype than reality. I do believe they have a have losing record in elections. In 2010, I think 67% of their candidates lost their elections. It seems their main wins have come in extremely Republican districts in extremely Republican states. It seems that in moderately Republican and Republican areas they lose elections.