It's not the Tea Party that's out of the mainstream

Just when Tea Party obituaries were being sounded around the country, a Washington fixture of 42 years, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, gets forced into a runoff against upstart Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel.

And one week later, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, in the blockbuster of this year’s political season, is booted out of office in the Virginia Republican primary by an economics professor from Randolph-Macon College, total undergraduate enrollment: 1,312 students.