Texas primary: Is the tea party a paper tiger?

Debra Medina, the third GOP gubernatorial contender and the most authentic outsider in the contest, garnered only about 19 percent of the vote…

No incumbent GOP House member in the Texas delegation caught a scare, much less lost, against a grassroots conservative challenger.

While 86-year-old Rep. Ralph Hall had the closest contest, he still bested his nearest challenger, a self-proclaimed “Tea Party Republican,” by a two-to-one margin.

Of those Republican incumbents who supported the TARP legislation in 2008 – Reps. Kevin Brady, Mike Conaway, Kay Granger, Lamar Smith, and Pete Sessions – Granger got the lowest vote percent. And she took 70 percent against two opponents.