The tea party movement has definitely been the star of the election season, causing quite a stir in the primary elections earlier this year.
However, it now seems the country is finally seeing how out-of-touch the tea-party-backed Republican candidates seem to be. Their views of extreme social conservatism and fiscal incoherence are resonating in a less-than-stellar way. The incoherence of the party is not relegated to local races but rather widespread across the country.
In Nevada, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle is infamous for her anti-government stances across the board, especially when it comes to health care. Yet, both she and her husband are on government health care plans.
In the race for Delaware's U.S. Senate seat, vacated by Vice President Biden, the tea party- backed Republican Christine O'Donnell (who, by the way, would like the public to know she is not a witch) is campaigning to bring fiscal responsibility to Washington. Yet she used campaign funds to pay rent for a townhouse she was living in after her house had been foreclosed.
If you want to know her social views, a simple search of her name on YouTube will give you hours of entertainment with her anti-masturbation speeches and tirades against evolution.
Then we have our own situation in Florida. Tea party-backed candidate Rick Scott, who narrowly defeated establishment candidate Bill McCollum, champions himself as a fiscally savvy individual when, in reality, he was involved with the single largest health care fraud scheme this country has ever seen.
His "7-7-7 plan," which is supposed to put 700,000 Floridians back to work, will cut more than 5 percent of the state's workforce and slash funding for basic safety services as fire and police departments.
Ultimately, come November the country has a choice. We can allow the tea party to leach its way into the halls of Tallahassee and Washington, or side with the Democrats who are fighting to revive this economic mess that took Republicans more than six years to make
