Democrats attacking GOP as tea party

[IDemo]

By PHILIP ELLIOTT (AP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — Democrats are planning to link the tea party and Republicans, overlapping the two groups to paint the GOP as a party of extremists and the grassroots activists as tools of the establishment.

Democratic National Committee sources say the party's strategy is to pose the November midterm elections as a contest between Democrats and a joint GOP-tea party plan for the country. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the official launch of the plan Wednesday by DNC Chairman Tim Kaine.

Democrats plan to cite tea party activists' statements and GOP support and introduce a "Republican-Tea Party Contract With America," a send-up of the 1994 GOP Contract With America that helped Republicans win control of the House for the first time in four decades.

Democrats plan to say the tea party is "the most potent force in Republican politics," according to a DNC source familiar with the plan.

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[TheKentuckian]

1. As they should. Teabaggers are Republicans or are to their Reich

[babylonsister]

2. This is all good. There are a lot of people who do not want to

identify with the teabaggers.

[Lochloosa]

3. "AS" the Tea Party? Come and check out who is running, and in the lead, in Florida

for the repug nominations. Rick Scott for Gov. Rubio for Senate.

The Republican Party IS the Tea Party.

[Historic NY]

4. "Behind every teabag is a rich Republican pulling the string".

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Republicans, Tea Party, Neo Conservatives, Minute Men, KKK.

Ever notice how the GOP has to keep re-branding itself every couple of years?