Dick Morris: The soul of the GOP

[DonViejo]

By Dick Morris - 03/11/14 05:40 PM EDT

Establishment Republicans always remind us of how the Tea Party cost the GOP crucial seats in 2010 and 2012, which might have delivered control of the Senate to the Republican Party. And, they have a point. If Tea Party candidates had not won primaries in Delaware, Nevada, Colorado, Indiana and Missouri, these states might now be sending more Republicans to the Senate.

But, consider the alternative. Had Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) not won their primaries, imagine how lifeless the Republican minority in the Senate would be. The party’s current intellectual and ideological cutting edge has come from Tea Party primary victories.

Would we rather have Charlie Crist, now running as a Democrat, in the Senate from Florida, or Marco Rubio? Would we prefer mute Bob Bennett as the Republican senator from Utah, or the outspoken Mike Lee?

In Kentucky, would Trey Grayson, unknown and undistinguished, have been a better spokesman for our party than Rand Paul?



Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/200499-dick-morris-the-soul-of-the-gop#ixzz2vkwd8cF3

[jsr]

1. From the soulless dickhead who said Romney would get 325 electoral votes

[hatrack]

2. I thought the Black Helicopters were to have deprived us of Mr. Morris' presence . .. .

Sorry to see that he and I were both wrong.