Speaking of Indiana being maligned by big-shot journalists, another media idiot -- Matt Taylor of Slate this time -- is going down the Extremist Hoosier Boobs Straying From Moderate Enlightenment path:
Republicans probably should have won control of the Senate during their 2010 midterm sweep. But time and again, Tea Party activists chose the more conservative (and polarizing) candidate in GOP primaries, making it easy for Democrats to portray them as extremists.
We saw this with Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority Leader, in Nevada, where despite being extremely unpopular, he was able to hang on because his opponent, Sharron Angle, had suggested she would scrap Social Security and force rape victims to bear their children. Ditto in Delaware, where Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell took out Rep. Mike Castle in the primary, only to get wiped out in November.
Indiana may prove to be this year's showcase for ideological furor getting in the way of Republican Senate dreams.
How many times must it be said? Nobody out here in polarized Tea Party land gives a hoot about a Republican majority in the Senate if it just means a bunch of Republicans acting like Democrats.
