Can Rand Paul bring the Tea Parties to the Senate?

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/11/05/kentucky/i...

Ron Paul's son is a card-carrying 9/12-er; he also has a real shot at being a U.S. senator
By Gabriel Winant
Everyone seems to agree that when Doug Hoffman drove his moderate GOP rival out of a special Congressional election last week, it said something about the future of the Republican Party. (Whether it boded well or ill depends on who you asked.)

Would other looming intra-party ideological throw-downs confirm the Tea Party takeover of the Grand Old Party? We may get an answer to that over the next year. In the race for one of Florida's Senate seats, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio is carrying the right-wing standard against the establishment heavyweight, Gov. Charlie Crist. In California's Senate race, state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore recently earned the conservative stamp of approval -- including the endorsement of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. -- over moderate GOP rival Carly Fiorina.

Rubio and DeVore are probably still both