Romney wins, but so did the Tea Party

Mitt Romney won Illinois convincingly last night, but in a strange and odd way, the Tea Party was the big winner. Didn't Santorum get his butt kicked? Am I out of my mind, you ask? Well, maybe, but to get such a large win, Romney had to go hard right. First Amendment against forcing groups to add contraception pills to health services? Oh, he went farther right than that. He said that Planned Parenthood needed to be stopped funded and closed. When a woman asked him where she should go to get the tests she needed, he said he didn't care. Yes, he didn't say no abortions, or even no birth control. He said no to simple health care like Pap Smears. You think Romney can pivot back to the middle after that one? Neither does the Tea Party. And that's why they were big winners last night.