>>I agree with your statement. Didn't read the links, but the same story is all over the morning news. I think quite a few of the moderate folks in the Tea Party now (regardless of the bunk posted here it is full of independents and democrats as well) will leave the party (even though it's not really a party) once they see who the "party" is backing all over the country. Not only that, but moderates tend to decide the main elections in November and they will often vote either party.
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>>I see NIcholas' post as more wishful thinking than anything else - I don't see anything there that helps Obama. But we'll all find out soon enough.
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>Any party that abandons the middle ground is going to lose. The tea party might go down well in the areas where the livestock sleep with their backs to the wall but its never gong to get you a republican president.

Delaware? Isn't that the Senate seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden?