Tea party antics could end up burning Republicans

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Tea party antics could end up burning Republicans
By Amy Gardner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 28, 2010; 12:32 AM

The tea party's volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances in some of the closest races in the nation, in which little-known candidates who upset the establishment with primary wins are now stumbling in the campaign's final days.

In Kentucky, a volunteer for tea-party-backed Senate candidate Rand Paul was videotaped stepping on the head of a liberal protester. In Delaware and Colorado, Senate hopefuls Christine O'Donnell and Ken Buck, respectively, are under fire for denying that the First Amendment's establishment clause dictates a separation of church and state. In Nevada, GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle is drawing rebuke for running TV ads that portray Latino immigrants as criminals and gang members.

Perhaps the most dramatic tea party problems are in Alaska, where Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller is suffering another round of unfavorable headlines after it was revealed late Tuesday that he had admitted lying about his misconduct while working as a government lawyer in Fairbanks.

Miller was conducting his own poll in 2008 in an effort to oust a state GOP chairman, and he used his colleagues' computers to vote in the survey, then erased their computers' caches to try to hide what he had done.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/27/AR2010102707428.html?hpid=topnews

[ixion]

1. "antics": so that's what we call assault and battery these days, eh?

:eyes:

[damntexdem]

3. Yeah, just like those 'antics' German Nazis pulled in the 1930s and 1940s.

And don't forget the antics that Al Qaida pulled with airliners and American buildings.

Yeah, a lot of antics have gone around for many years now.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Dick Arney/Kock Bros must be squiming...throwing good money after bad as their Bag project falters

BWAhahahhaha

[emulatorloo]

4. There are many good reasons to work for Democratic victory in 2010. Flushing KOCH $$$$$ down the

toilet is definitely on the list somewhere. These folks deserve a very COSTLY humiliation.

"XXXX VOTED TO GIVE SEX OFFENDERS VIAGRA!" yeah, right. . . .