The republicans and the tea party are playing a game of chicken. A game of chicken is a game where two players participate in some activity that threatens to either destroy the other or themselves, depending on how the game plays out at the last second.

That seems to be the game that the republicans and the tea party are playing, and in the end, we won't know who wins until November. But, there are a number of races where moderate republicans would be a shoo-in to win, but the party was robbed of that candidate by a much more right wing candidate supported by the so-called tea party.

The mainstream media says that this gives the democrat a fighting chance against the current of what the prognosticators are saying is going to be a republican deluge. I think that is probably right, because these so-called tea party candidates to the person have made some comments that are going to rub the average person the wrong way, and you can bet that the democrats are going to put them on TV ads, with distorted views of their face, calling them radical, extremist, etc etc. I think that for the most part, these statements, which will be irrefutable because they will be right out of the horses mouth, will be very damaging, and will give the democrat a fighting chance.

But, as the NY Times reported a few days ago, the money advantage with the support groups goes to the republicans in an extreme way, and they are pounding the democratic candidates with incessant ads invoking the Obama/Pelosi/Reid name, and claiming that they are cutting medicare benefits by hundreds of millions. Of course, that is a total distortion of the facts, but it is true that the Obama health care bill didn't do anything to stop the insurance companies from randomly raising the premiums on your health care, and they did do something to change the Medicare advantage policies, which is going to change things for some medicare subscribers. But since I'm not on it, I don't know the details. But if the dems don't answer that, it is going to hurt them with elders, who generally have supported the democrats.

It's going to be interesting. I still stand by my prediction that democratic losses will not be as great as many are predicting. But the dems are going to have to run some good campaigns, which mean they will have to be brutal from time to time.