Tea Party Irrelevant In Texas Primaries

Voter turnout in last Thursday's Texas state primaries was the highest it has been in more than 20 years and what the voters of Texas had to say about the Tea Party, they said loud and crystal clear. Yet, in one more example of just how out of touch teabaggers are with reality and how impervious they are to truth and fact, the baggers have claimed victory in the Texas primaries even though every single teabagger candidate got their clocks resoundingly cleaned and their lunatic asses handed to them by the voters of Texas.

Ignoring not just the facts but the vote count as well, teabaggers bray like jackasses as they claim "their" candidate, two-term Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry and his beat down of his two opponents, is proof of their electorial influence even though the official Tea Party candidate in that race never got out of last place throughout the campaign and only managed to garner 18% of the vote. Not a single Tea Party candidate in any of the primary contests came anywhere near close to serious contention in their respective races.

Of the host of Texas House GOP incumbents who faced challenges from tea party opponents, the only one who faced anything remotely resembling a scare was Representative Ralph Hall - who dispatched his nearest competitor by nearly 30 percentage points. The highly touted primary challenge that Republican Congressman Ron Paul was supposed to have faced from three Tea Party activists never materialized and ended with a Ron Paul landslide. Paul won 80.8% of the vote against teabaggers Tim Graney (9.7%), John Gay (5.3%), and Gerald Wall (4.2%). [So much for the teabaggers who think Paul is a dried-up, washed-out, wrinkled old whackjob. That's twice Ron Paul has kicked teabagger ass in a little more than two weeks.]

Teabaggers will use Sarah Palin's endorsement of Rick Perry to justify their imagined victory where utter defeat is a matter of reality. We are supposed to forget Palin and the Tea Party have stated time and time again that she is not their leader and they are not her followers. I've looked for any specific mention of the Tea Party giving Rick Perry any kind of official endorsement and it's just not there. What I did find in that search were more references to Dick Armey of FreedomWorks endorsing one of Perry's opponents, Kay Bailey Hutchison. FreedomWorks - one of the proud owners of the Tea Party wouldn't even endorse the official Tea Party candidate, gun-toting 9/11 conspiracy theorist Debra Medina - imagine that.

Where does anyone but the delusional or just plain ignorant see a victory for the Tea Party in any of the irrefutable facts above? I cannot imagine the twisted logic used to claim any kind of Tea Party victory in the Texas primaries when the Tea Party was completely, categorically and overwhelmingly defeated.