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... and then there were four ...
... tea party members up for election in the 2010 mid-terms.
"In addition to Mr Buck [Colorado], they have propelled their candidates to win primaries in Utah, Kentucky and Nevada, as well as in Florida – by default when the presumptive Republican nominee pulled out."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7aec0fa-a57b-11df-a5b7-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html
Kentucky is the bigest light in this list because of who has been nominated there. Rand Paul, son of Texas Representative and GOP 2008 presidential hopeful Ron Paul, has some pretty extreme views and Kentucky is in a bad spot.
Paul Jr., like his father, has said some contervertial things that I find about half excelent and half ignorant. One of his most brazen quotes was picked up by the economist in January:
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Originally Posted by Rand Paul, The Economist, Jan. 30, 2010
What happens to our country when you destroy a currency? Out of the Weimar Republic, they elected Hitler.
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Part alarmist - part acurate. Out of troubled economies come extreme politics, that I agree with.
Kentucky is also an interesting story as a state. Like Virginia, Kentucky is sandwitched between three economic hot spots - the south east, the mid-west, and the north east. All of the hot spots are rife with debt, unemployment, and public (state level) debt. Thus it isn't a surprise that Kentucky would be concerned about extreme political currents, they would be the battle ground, literally, if hostilities between any of the three major hot spots ignited.
What I find particularily ironic about Paul Jr.'s acertation is that he is part of the political grouping which could best bear the lable of being politically extreme.
makes ya think eh?
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