Who Won?

English: Ted Cruz at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Tea Party. 
The Tea Party won because up until the "big fight," it was supposed to be dead.  It was supposed to have died sometime in the last century.  It was gone. Kaput. Nada.

And yet, according to the Socialist Republicans, and the Socialist Democrats, it was The Tea Party's fault that the government was shut down, and It was the Tea Party that had taken over the "House Republicans," and it was the Tea Party that was a radical faction that was causing all the Big Government's woes.

So where did the Tea Party come from, if in fact, it was so thoroughly dead?

You could say that the Tea Party had been resurrected so that the ObamaDrones and the arthritic-pinky establishment Republicans could blame the big to-do on someone or something.

Did it not occur to you that the BoehnerDrones had colluded with the ObamaDrones ahead of the big show-down, specifically to try to discredit the Tea Party?

Perhaps. Or perhaps that's just granting the drones a wee bit too much savvy.

In any case, the Tea Party never went away.  It was not dead.  And it was out in force.  And what's more the Tea Party had a banner, a voice:  Voices! and the megaphone for those voices was Ted Cruz.

All over facehook and twitzer can be heard "... we fought the good fight, but we lost..." 

No we did not.

The Tea Party won. 

It showed that it's still "HERE." It fought against an alliance of "establishment Republicans," Socialist Democrat Legislators, and a Socialist President with a bully-pulpit.  Against great odds, the Tea Party revived the opposition to ObamaCare.  It highlighted its faults, and placed upon it the giant search-lights, which illuminate what the ObamaTax is about:  Not HealthCare, but Government Control.

The Tea Party brought Constitutionalists, Conservatives, and Libertarians together once again, and in their quest, in their fervor and with their passion, the Tea Party showed once again it is the pulse of America, and this time it showed that in 2014 and 2016 they are going to take America back from the SocialistDrones.

Say to those that are lamenting having lost:  You did not lose.

You won.

Celebrate!