Mitch McConnell yesterday on Meet the Press:

MR. GREGORY: What does it say, though, about the strength of the tea party movement? However large and vast that movement is, it certainly has been in evidence in the support for Rand Paul. SEN. McCONNELL: Yeah, I think so, and it’s an important movement in the country, and I think it’s really going to help us in November.

Have you ever noticed the similarity between what the GOP has done with the tea party movement and what Blackwater attempted to do in renaming itself Xe? I guess you have to hand it to Republicans: after spending eight years soiling their brand beyond repair, at least they had the good sense to try and change their name. Unfortunately for them, they're still the same old guys, standing for the same old things, and as long as Democrats follow President Obama's lead in pointing this out (and as long as President Obama follows his own lead), November won't be anything for the GOP to remember.