is this faction of the GOP officially dead? They were a non factor in the primaries, unlike 2012 where all the candidates were trying to please the TEA Party. In my opinion, the TEA party cost Romney the nomination, because in the primaries he took some very hard right Tea Party positions that really was not his characters and wasn't the theme the vast majority of the nation, specifically Independents believed.
I hope the TEA are gone and forgotten they were the beginning of the destruction of the GOP.