Some people just don't get it...

Sure enough, the Tea Party thinks Romney wasn't extreme enough, even though his support grew late in the campaign as he moved to more moderate positions (but too late to help him). Excerpts from a article by Erik Wasson posted today on the website The Hill:

Conservative leaders on Wednesday lashed out at Mitt Romney, saying his attempts to paint himself as a moderate and hide his principles cost him the presidency. They vowed to wage a war to put the Tea Party in charge of the Republican Party by the time it nominates its next presidential candidate.

“The battle to take over the Republican Party begins today and the failed Republican leadership should resign,” said Richard Viguerie, a top activist and chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.

 Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots said Romney failed to make the kind of strong case for conservatism that would have won the election.

 She described Romney as a “weak, moderate candidate hand-picked by the country club elite Republican establishment.”

Well, natural selection works in politics just like it does in nature. If the Tea Party people are too dumb, or too blinded by their ideology, to understand the change in the country's demographics and the implication of that change for their party, then they will go the way of the Dodo bird......