Thanks to another tea party candidate, a solidly Republican district in New York has lost its congressional seat to a Democrat.

Liberals are celebrating the victory as a statement against the Paul Ryan Medicare proposal. But if you remove the senseless, wasted votes for the tea party candidate, conservatives would have won the seat by a 3 percent to 4 percent margin.

If folks don't wake up soon to the reality that a vote for the tea party is a vote for the Democrats, they will definitely re-elect President Obama and reverse the U.S. House majority conservatives just acquired.

MIke Ryan, Cockeysville