First, he has never held public office, which is a good thing to Tea Party voters who strongly distrust government and most politicians.
It is one thing for the Tea Party movement and independents to elect a Republican Congress.
And here's the amazing thing: all tea comes from the same plant.
The challenger is the nearest thing to a tea-party candidate to be found in Ohio, where Republicans tend to be fiscal and social conservatives (Mr Kasich recently wrote a book on faith, and when in Congress played a big role in the budget and welfare reforms of the mid-1990s).
The Tea Party Patriots is the closest thing that MoveOn has to a counterpart on the right.
If the coast is more your cup of tea, then try the Top Gear thing and ride notorious Highway 1 between Saigon and Hanoi.
Almost eight out of 10 of those surveyed drank tea, coffee or cola either first thing or mid morning - periods of the day in which stress levels also peak for most workers.
Sheherezad told me she came for tea the other day, and this unfortunate little thing sat without saying a word, just listening, like a frog in the corner.
"Rock 'n' roll is such an unpredictable thing, " Mr. Lagutenko said recently at the Russian Tea Room, where adoring young employees took turns taking pictures with him.
Incapable of reaping anything from the garden to use, Janus Brian had simply gone to the kitchen cupboard and taken the first thing that had come to hand - a packet of PG Tips tea bags.
Republicans who had previously decried the sequester and the threat it posed -- warned about job loss, warned about negative effects on our national security -- turned around and then said it was a good thing and a victory for their party and a victory for the tea party and a home run.
We saw this play itself out in November in New York's 23rd congressional district when the Republican candidate chosen by party leaders was forced out of the race after a conservative candidate who didn't know a darn thing about the issues in the district captured the fancy of the Tea Party renegades, and almost won the seat.
To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.
The other amazing thing about this verdant and unique patch of India, rich in pepper, natural rubber, coconut, tea, coffee, cashews, and spices, is its bucolic backwater network of lagoons and canals.
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