After the Tea Party’s election success, the American right has a mandate to fight for a smaller state
‘I am not a witch.’ Now that’s not something you hear very often from a politician. But Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party darling and Republican candidate in Delaware for the US Senate, felt the need to say these words in a campaign commercial, after a youthful dalliance with witchcraft was revealed. The denial was somewhat undermined by the all-black outfit and smoky background. But the Democrats and their cheerleaders in the US media had a field day.
These Tea Party folks? Strange, barking, dangerous. Who’d vote for them? As predicted, though Ms O’Donnell had won a stunning victory against a GOP establishment candidate for the Republican nomination, she lost to the Democrats in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. Presumably the broomstick community felt jilted — and her opposition to masturbation was hardly a vote-winner.
But the Tea Party, a potent brew of libertarianism, limited government and social conservatism, has had the last laugh.
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