Why Is Dick Armey Telling GOP Candidates To Keep Away From Tea Partiers?
On last night’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann took on comments from conservative jack-of-all-trades Dick Armey advising Republican congressional candidates to steer clear of the Tea Party movement, even if they agree with its members, lest they end up like Rand Paul. What does it mean for tea partiers, he asked, when the plan for GOP congressional candidates is to keep their affiliations with the tea partiers a secret until after the elections? The Washington Post’s David Weigel, who was on to discuss the comments with Olbermann, posited that it was a sign the Democrats’ attempts at marginalizing the movement were working, in the sense that Armey “sees, and I think a lot of Republicans see, that Democrats have tried to find the most extreme elements of the Tea Parties and make them politically toxic.” And, to a certain extent, it has worked enough that the Republican Party feels the need to maintain a distinct feel than the Tea Party. He also noted that it was interesting that Armey was s
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