The Tea Party Versus Republicans

This last week in several primaries the Tea Party candidate has beaten the establishment. In Alaska Sara Palin has continued her battle against the Murkowski family. This time targeting Sen.Murkowski the daughter of former U.S. Senator and Governor Frank Murkowski. Joe Miller a little known Judge and attorney was backed by Sara Palin and the Tea Party is currently ahead of Murkowski with more than 16000 ballots left to be counted. In Florida a mega millionaire was able to knock off the sitting Attorney General in the Republican primary Bill McCollum has yet to endorse Rick Scott. But Rep.Kendrick Meeks easily handled his primary billionaire challenger by more than 10% points. In Arizona John McCain pounded former congressman J.D. Hayworth and Tea party favorite by 20% points however McCain spent 21 million dollars defeating Hayworth McCain will easily win in November however the Tea Party is costing Republicans lots of money in primaries they will need to become the majority in the fall. Primaries are a good thing but they quite often valuable resources from incumbents that need them especially in this economy money will be tight and the Tea Party has made Republicans primaries very expensive once again the Tea Party is not helping the Republican party and is not making it better.