Tea Parties Turn On Each Other

[Modbert]

Tea partiers turn on each other - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com

After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum.

The grass-roots activists driving the movement have become increasingly divided on such core questions as whether to focus their efforts on shaping policy debates or elections, work on a local, regional, state or national level or closely align themselves with the Republican Party, POLITICO found in interviews with tea party organizers in Washington and across the country.

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[rightwinger]

They showed in the NY 23 election that they are turning on "impure" Republicans. The teabaggers never had a unified message. All you had to do was read their signs