The anti-teaparty conservative, John Boehner, watched in retirement as his House seat went to a teapary movement conservative. The last laugh really is the loudest, no?

Did you know there was a primary election,  in Ohio,  for John Boehner's seat  . . . . .  today,  Tuesday the 16th of March?  Neither did I.  

Wa/Post:  It was one of the tea party’s few highlights in Tuesday’s congressional primaries. But laying claim to former GOP House speaker John Boehner’s old seat (in all likelihood) is a big one, both for the bragging rights and the momentum it gives House conservatives in their ongoing fight to purify their party ideologically.

Warren Davidson, a businessman and former Army Ranger, won a 15-way Republican primary Tuesday in the special election for Ohio’s 8th Congressional District. The tea party candidate rather easily bested more moderate candidates, including two state lawmakers, in a campaign that quickly became ground zero for the party’s ongoing identity struggle in the House that Boehner used to run. The winner of a June special election will serve out the rest of 2016 in Boehner’s seat, and in such a deep red congressional district, that winner is likely to be Davidson.