re: #200 reine.de.tout

CapeCoddah is in Massachusetts, and she was completely dismissed when she tried to say that Brown may have had some Tea Party support, but he was no tea-partier.

Does it look like she may have been correct?

I don’t remember arguing that he was a die-hard TPer. I remember arguing that the Tea Partiers were his activist base that supported him intensely, campaigned for him, and got him elected. And Capecoddah disagreed with me vehemently. I believe the argument was about the influence of the Tea Party and the fact that the Tea Party extremists are becoming more important to winning GOP seats. I was arguing that the Tea Party people are now influential activist base that have the ability to shape policy because they must be pandered to to win elections. And I was being challenged on that IIRC.