If the folks running the party want the tea partiers to support their preferred candidates — when they’re the nominee, at least — it should work the other way around as well. It now appears that Cuccinelli, a flawed candidate running against an even more flawed human being, could have pulled this thing out if he’d had more help at the end.
What Jonah and others fail to realize is,that 'the GOP establishment' would very well rather have McAuliffe or any other liberal Democrat elected to office than a real conservative,'Tea Partier',or libertarian Republican. 'The establishment' knows full well the day that the 'Tea Party',or any other freedom loving candidates gain a majority in the GOP,they will go from being the establishment to being the disestablishment.