Murkowski would be "seventh candidate endorsed by the National Republican Senate Committee to lose"

[ProSense]

Political earthquake shakes GOP

By Ed Rollins

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The upset victory in Florida's gubernatorial primary of the Tea Party- "embraced" multimillionaire businessman Rick Scott over the establishment-endorsed Attorney General Bill McCollum continues the string of outsider candidates knocking the daylights out of the Republican establishment.

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We now have a situation where Florida's two highest elected officials, Gov. Charlie Crist and Attorney General McCollum, have been unable to get the nominations of their party's voters. Chaos and corruption in the state party structure has caused some of the dissension, but anger with the establishment's longtime politicians has been the real catalyst for change.

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If this defeat holds up, the senator will be the seventh candidate endorsed by the National Republican Senate Committee to lose this cycle. The committee would have been better to let the primaries play out and just support the winners.

The Tea Party now has beaten the establishment candidate in Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Kentucky, Colorado and Connecticut. Assuming they are going to win some or maybe all of those seats in November, they begin as real power brokers. But I guess the real lesson of 2010 is to assume nothing.

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The nuts are taking over the GOP.

[Sherman A1]

1. Which do you prefer

The Nuts or the Thieves?

I don't see either as being all that great.

[comtec]

2. Nuts are honest and predictable

thieves ... not so much

also a nut can be easily ignored and insulted with no major blow back.

[ProSense]

3. Doesn't matter one bit. Republicans

are between a rock and a hard place.

They can't (have never been able to) govern, and the teabaggers are making it impossible for them to remain in office while trying to do anything remotely responsible. The GOP is being held hostage by kooks.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Seven out of how many?

I don't think that's a majority by far.

[ProSense]

5. "I don't think that's a majority by far." It's significant

There are 18 Republicans seats in the mix. A few are uncontested and some are incumbent-free as a result of a retirement. So seven out of 18 is significant.

[zipplewrath]

6. Especially considering that Florida was suppose to be a cakewalk

Crist really stirred things up by leaving. 'Tis gonna get interesting in the fall if all these tea baggers lose.

[Beaverhausen]

7. there's only 18 governors, senators and congresspersons that had republican primary challenges?

is that correct?

[ProSense]

8. National Republican Senate Committee is a Senate organization

This is about endorsements for Senate.

[WI_DEM]

9. so far this election cycle the biggest losers then have been establishment republicans.