It ain’t over folks
by digby
If Ted Cruz seems like a one-of-a-kind, give it time. A slew of young, hard-charging, Tea Party-endorsed Senate wannabes is looking to knock off the Republican establishment again in 2014. Some have better chances than others, but all have the unmistakable Cruzian commitment to refusing to toe the Republican Party line and make headlines while doing it. If you haven’t heard of them yet, you will.
Read on. They don’t sound like real threats but you just never know. This is an off year election in the second term of the president which usually results in losses for his party. And the right wingers are always more energized in these elections. A couple of them could sneak in.
I’m afraid that what some liberals persist in thinking of as a necessary exercise in “heightening the contradictions” is actually just normalizing crazy. At this point all it will take for any of these loons to be accepted as “mainstream” by the political establishment will be if they don’t grow horns or literally spit blood on the Senate floor. Look at Paul Ryan.
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