Win or lose, MANY TEA PARTIERS ARE INELIGEBLE TO HOLD OFFICE!
Rick Perry, Stephen Broden, Sharron Angle, Joe Miller and other tea baggers have at various time during the campaign called for secession, violent overthrow, insurrection, and assassinating their opponents if they lose.
Here's the problem (and the real reason Republicans want to repeal the 14th Amendment).
Section 3 of the 14th Amendment:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.