Last week the mainstream spin machine was once again triumphantly reporting that support for the Tea Party is at an all-time low. Apparently the Party of Tea has been shedding members like a dog in July losing hair, for the last two years; “Near-Record Low”, “new low”, “All-Time Low” …
If these tedious victory laps are justified, it would mean that the majority of Americans no longer support:
• Our Constitutional Republic
• The 1st Amendment;
• The 2nd Amendment;
• The rule of law
• Non-crony, free-market capitalism
• Self-government/personal responsibility
• National sovereignty
• Judeo-Christian values
• Fiscal responsibility
If support for the Tea Party has sunk as low as progressives desperately hope it has, it would essentially mean that the Fundamental Transformation is complete.
But wait… What’s this?
Despite the negative narrative frantically pushed by leftist media, it seems results from Tuesday’s countrywide elections aren’t quite so gloomy ~
Conservative victories in key state-level races add to growing narratives of 2015 as the year of the outsider in politics, and the defeat of two high-profile ballot measures has delivered setbacks to a cultural left that has felt inevitable of late […]
… Republicans at the state level are in their most formidable position in decades, and the results that came in Tuesday night only added to their advantage.
“Sundance” at The Last Refuge blog cites several reasons for we-the-liberty-loving Americans to be optimistic about Tuesday’s results ~
• a San Francisco sheriff who thinks he works for illegals rather than law-abiding citizens was shown the door by the law-abiding citizens
• Houstonians told their mayor they don’t want gender-confused males using the same rest rooms as women
• Ohio wisely rejected the legalization of recreational marijuana
• Anything related to Obamacare continues to be a loser for Democrats nationwide
Matt Bevin’s victory in Kentucky was especially encouraging!
The biggest story is the Kentucky gubernatorial win of Matt Bevin, a tea party-supported newcomer who became the second Republican in four decades to win the top office in the Bluegrass State. Despite a plethora of polls that showed him trailing Democrat Jack Conway, the state attorney general, in the end Bevin trounced Conway 53% to 44% […]
KY Governor-elect Matt Bevin & family
A charismatic businessman who fiercely defends social conservatism and speaks his mind can win? Yep. The Republican establishment would be wise to take notice.
One story certain to be ignored by many in the national media is Bevin’s running mate, Lt. Gov.-elect Jenean Hampton, who will be the first African-American to hold statewide office in Kentucky. This adds yet another data point to challenge the dominant media narrative of an old, white GOP — one which at the national level (as Marco Rubio pointed out) happens to have three minorities out of the four contenders at the top of its race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Summarizing Tuesday’s election results, Erick Erickson had this to say ~
Across the country tonight, voters rejected not just Barack Obama’s party, but also his party’s ideology. The voters rejected candidates who advocated for gun-control, they rejected candidates who sought the expansion of Obamacare, they rejected the Democrats’ environmental policies, and they rejected the secularist, gay-rights agenda.
The Republican Party, at one time, was allegedly a party that could not win in New England. Now, Republicans control 68 of 98 partisan state legislative chambers in the United States, 33 of 50 Governor’s Mansions, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate.
So you see, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to misrepresent and demonize the movement since its inception, it appears that – to paraphrase Mark Twain – reports of the Tea Party’s death have been greatly exaggerated!
