Republicans who had spent half a century deriding their opposition for being “appeasers” suddenly found themselves walking on eggshells, scared to death to cross their own voters who took all their messaging seriously and expected results.

Forget the Koch brothers, they're throwing their weight around but they aren't the steam behind the movement, not by a long shot. She should have left it at this and skipped the name-calling.

The Tea Partyers who come together and vote out a stale incumbent they don’t like in favor of a right wing zealot is not something that’s good for the country, to be sure.

Juvenile at best, and maliciously simplistic at worst.