Tea Party Lists Some Who They Support

"In politics, you always have to be careful to promise what to do," said Sal Russo, a GOP consultant who is aiding the Tea Party in its efforts. "We try to keep our focus on the doable. We have a lot of wonderful candidates that simply can't win. So our focus is on the candidates that can win so we can really focus on taking America back."

Some of the people the Tea Party have named as being supported according to recent polls are not the most likely candidate to unseat the socialist Democrat incumbent.  Sharron Angle, a former Republican member of the Nevada Assembly who is an anti-tax champion vying to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  Angle, who has aggressively touted her connection to the Tea Party, addressed the gathering Thursday, calling the movement "a tsunami of conservatism across this country."

A recent poll indicates Angle lags far behind the two other Republicans seeking the party's Senate nomination: college basketball star Danny Tarkanian and former state GOP Chairman Sue Lowden. The Mason-Dixon survey for the Las Vegas Review-Journal showed Angle at 5 percent, while Lowden registered 45 percent and Tarkanian polled at 27 percent.

In California the Tea Party is supporting State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who is vying with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Rep. Tom Campbell to take on longtime Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. DeVore also lags his opponents by nearly 20 points, according to a recent Los Angeles Times USC poll.

Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, who is facing off against Gov. Charlie Crist for the GOP nomination and has often tip-toed around his connection to the movement, also won a rousing endorsement from the group Thursday. So did Pat Toomey, the former head of the Club for Growth who will take on Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, should Specter win his own primary.

Rand Paul, the son of Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who is running for Senate in Kentucky, and Todd Tiahrt, a congressman running for Senate in Kansas, also won Tea Party Express endorsements Thursday.
The group said it will aggressively target Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, the struggling Democrat who faces a difficult primary challenge and a tough general election battle should she make it that far.

For the House the Tea Party is supporting one Democrat, Walt Minnick of Idaho, who is part of the "Blue Dog" coalition of centrist Democrats. He has long railed against pork-barrel spending and voted against the recent health care bill.

The list also includes several members of Congress with bona fide conservative credentials, most of whom do not appear to face difficult re-election bids: Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota, Mike Pence of Indiana, Tom Price of Georgia and Tom McClintock of California.

On the House side, Tea Party activists said they are taking aim at Democratic Reps. Betsey Markey of Colorado, Alan Grayson of Florida, Baron Hill of Indiana, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Dina Titus of Nevada, John Spratt of South Carolina, Tom Perriello of Virginia, Gerry Connolly of Virginia and Alan Mollohan of West Virginia.

While the vast majority of the group's endorsements went to Republicans, group leader Mark Williams said the movement is not partisan.  "Please don't tell me I'm a Republican tool," he said.

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