Sen. Chuck Grassley on Paul Supporters Filling GOP “Vacuum”

Earlier this month, I wrote:

Our side currently has all the ideas; we don’t need to yell the loudest. The GOP is an ideological vacuum that is currently being filled with our people right before our eyes. Our superior philosophy will win the day. It is already winning.

Earlier this week, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley explained how Paul supporters came to hold leadership positions in his state’s Republican Party (via The Des Moines Register):

“In politics, there’s no vacuum. Somebody’s going to fill the vacuum. And the vacuum was created by non-Paul Republicans that weren’t doing their job. And the Paul people were on top of it, and they won,” he said in a conference call with Iowa reporters.

Grassley added: “In politics, the person that gets the most votes wins. So that’s just the reality of politics. So anybody that doesn’t like it, get involved.”

The Des Moines Register added:
Steve Scheffler, who was re-elected to the Republican National Committee despite an effort to discredit him, made a similar comparison at Saturday’s state convention.  “I helped usher in the conservative movement 25 years ago … that was very, very unpopular. I and others were accused that we were going to destroy the party.  But guess what? It didn’t happen,” Scheffler said.  Now, 25 years later, there’s another wave of new Republicans, he said, who should be welcomed.