Did the GOP blow their shot at a Senate seat in KY?

[Sandy]

Rand Paul won the GOP primary in Kentucky, mainly on the strength of extremist tea partiers turning out. Doesn't look like they will have the strength or the turnout to overcome both the Democrats and the mainline Republicans who will more than likely either not turn out for Paul, or who will turn out for the Democrat.

And in the first real test of the 2010 Congressional election, the Democrats were the winners in PA, keeping Murtha's seat that the Tea Party extremists vowed to capture.

The Tea Parties may be strong enough to overturn some incumbent Republicans, but I think, in the long run, that will simply hand those seats over to the Democrats.

[Haruo]

Lord knows we Democrats can use help from whatever quarter it's offered...

[Stephen Fox]

Rand Paul and Rachel Maddow had an interesting discussion Weds Night

The Question is, Is the Tea Party Movement as synonomous to Richard Land as Land was to Karl Rove and how transparent will the Orlando SBC be on the question as it relates to Public School Teachers and their giving through the Cooperative Program if Texas is the Template for American History.

[Ed Pettibone]

[David Flick]

[Jim]

With all the political cannon fodder connected to the Rand Paul affair, one might do well to read something by a University of Kentucky political science professor, especially since, like most public institutions of higher learning, UK is quite liberal: .