Great: Former Republican Senators Endorsing Democrat Senate Candidates

The argument went like this:

Tea Party: You guys are essentially Democrats. There is no ideological difference between you and the statist progressives; your idea of "political battle" is simply to see which team wins in any election, to divvy up the choicest offices and biggest staff budgets. And not to actually challenge the assumptions of the progressive social welfare/social control state.

Establishment Republicans: Nonsense, we're committed to all that... stuff you're so rabidly frothing about. You're just "extremists." You're crazypeople.

So, who was right?

Well, the Tea Party was.