This is kind of sad: on Tuesday afternoon RNC Chairman Michael Steele went on Fox News to confess to Neil Cavuto his deep-seated and long-felt affinity for the Tea Party movement, claiming that Republicans and tea partiers are in fact kindred spirits. The following afternoon, however, Cavuto asked an actual tea partier if the attraction was mutual. It was not.“As I like to tell people, long before there was this big push on tea parties, if I wasn’t doing this job, I’d be out there with the tea partiers,” Steele said on Tuesday. When Cavuto brought up the notion of a schism between the tea party movement and the Republican Party, Steele assured him, “The schism is, is not-… it’s overrated, to put it succinctly.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=132334