After two weeks of GOP primary elections, how is the teaparty movement doing/ Pretty dang good!!!!

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Editor's notes (and then the news lede):  Assuming that Obama has the ear of some Republicans,  a spokesman for Obama reached out to those Republicans,  hoping to convince them that the Cantor debacle had nothing to do with the Majority Leader’s increasing support on bridge issues.  With the use of the term “bridge issues,”  I mean to include legislative and strategical concerns shared by Establishment politicians on both sides of the political aisle,  matters including comprehensive immigration legislation and opposition to Congressional teaparty conservatives,     especially conservative party members within his own House caucus. 

While the Obamanites debated their position,  arguing that Lindsay Graham (R-SC) won his primary in spite of his willingness to compromise on immigration issues and his hatred for the true, Conservative Nation,  most conservative observers know better. 

Indeed,  Obama’s position on Graham’s Establishment alliances is true, AND, Graham did win his primary bid.  But,  he ran against 6  GOP opponents dividing his opposition.  More than this,  the other South Carolina, GOP Senatorial candidate,  Tim Scott,  garnered 60,000 more votes,  in the same election,  on the same ticket,  than Mr Graham.  Understand that this "60,000" difference in vote count for Scott versus Graham,  translates into a 52% win for Graham and a 90% vote total for Scott.   Scott is the conservative Senator from South Carolina;  Graham is the Establishment’s Senator.  This election result,  talking about the vote totals of the two candidates,  this election result, alone (apart from the Brat victory),  tells you all you need to know about the strength of the teaparty, conservative movement  . . . . . . . . . .  it is alive and well. ** 

NRO:

A spokesman for President Obama rushed to assure House Republicans that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) didn’t actually lose because of his gestures toward Democrats on immigration reform.“Cantor’s problem wasn’t his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position,” Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer tweeted, citing the success of Senator Lindsay Graham (R., S.C.).  “Graham wrote and passed a bill and is winning big.”Cantor’s campaign sent out direct mail pieces ahead of the election maintaining that he was ”stopping the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty,” but challenger Dave Brat accused him of supporting “amnesty” based on his support for legislation such as the KIDS Act, which would give citizenship to children brought to the country illegally.

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 Besides the huge turnout for Scott in comparison to Graham's vote total, and,  the Brat victory against Eric Cantor,  other teaparty type projected to win their elections this coming November, include Colonel Martha McSally (House GOP candidate in Arizonia),  Joni Ernst, a first-term senator from the southwest Iowa town of Red Oak.   Ernst is the overwhelming favorite to face Democrat Bruce Braley in the fall after being an underdog for much of the campaign.   Another teaparty unknown,  Ben Sasse,  won his Republican Senate primary bid in Nebraska on last Tuesday, and is predicted to win in November.  

Keep in mind,  we are just half way through the GOP primary season.  Also,  the reader should not miss the fact that the teaparty movement has already moved the GOP closer to his conservative roots,  with Mitch McConnell sounding more conservative,  than ever before.  

Predictions of the "death of the teaparty"  could not be further from the truth.  The movement is learning the lessons needed to field qualified candidates,  making the movement all the more potent.  

Hats off to lessons learned and persistence.