He was sworn-in, and ran for the seat fully in November, with a tough challenge from a Tea Partier.

Let's listen to a Tea Partier:

Two things which NO Tea Partier would ever say.

Just based upon statistics the inclusion of "Tea Partier" as a suspect,or putting it on parity of "Taliban" shows bigotry.

It has many of them thinking he's not quite what they thought, he's not a real Tea Partier.

Patricia Sullivan, Tea Partier.

A Tea Partier's awakening, and what he shares with activists from MoveOn.

Colorado: Don't call Ken (No Compromises) Buck, the Republican, a Tea Partier; he says they're "dumbasses."

"I was a Tea Partier before it was cool."

The other one is they're confident of walking all over the Tea Partier who beats Romney, if one of them does.