Via Think Progress:
In an interview with National Review today, DeMint said that the tea parties should no longer be thought of as “separate” from the Republican Party:
“The GOP leadership needs to stand up for mainstream American principles,” says DeMint. The best way to do that, he says, is to “look to the great candidates we can support like Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, Chuck DeVore, and now Michael Williams. They’re exciting, principled candidates who have all stood up to the Republican party.”
“We need to stop looking at the tea parties as separate from the Republican party,” adds DeMint. “If we do that, we can stand up and create the biggest tent of all.”
It’s so Monty Python – Let’s not argue over who left who. Of course, to the rest of us this “merging” is just a formality. Tea parties have always been the far right branch of the Republican Party. But “merging” is probably the wrong word. The tea partiers are what’s left of the GOP, and we all know you’re either with ’em, or against ’em. And DeMint is pathetic, practically begging for a date to the prom.
And you gotta love the way poor Charlie Crist is thrown under the wheels of the whacky express.