By Bill
Wilson
A definitive trend has emerged with Tuesday’s primary election
results of Republican Party contests: 2010 is an anti-establishment
year. Career politician Bill McCollum was defeated in the Florida
gubernatorial contest by outsider Rick Scott, and incumbent Alaska
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski is losing to tea party-favorite Joe
Miller, who was endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Couple that with incumbent Republican Senator John McCain spending
$21 million to defeat former Representative J.D. Hayworth. Despite claims
by U.S. News & World Report that the Arizona race sent a “mixed
message,” in order to win, McCain had to run decidedly more
conservative than in previous runs. He tested the political winds and
got out in front of a tough challenge by running to the right, and did
so convincingly to Arizona voters, winning over 60 percent of the vote.
Then there’s the ascendency of another tea party candidate, Rand
Paul, to the Republican nomination for Kentucky’s open Senate seat, and
Marco Rubio taking the Republican nod for Senate in Florida. And the
defeat of incumbent Republican Senator Bill Bennett in Utah to tea
party-backed Mike Lee, plus conservatives Ken Buck and Pat Toomey in
Colorado and Pennsylvania, respectively. Not to mention the victory of
Sharron Angle as Republican Senate nominee in Nevada, yet another tea
party favorite.
See a pattern? In consequential contest after contest, heads are
rolling, and the establishment is losing.
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