Calling the Tea Party racist, how original.
Via RCP:
Pappas: What brings the whole Tea Party together across the country is at the center of American politics. It’s not extreme. It’s let’s only spend what we bring in. It’s fiscal policy.
Matthews: You’re saying Tea Partiers don’t have an attitude about immigration?
Pappas: No.
Matthews: They don’t?
Pappas: No. There is not a consistent Tea Party position on immigration.
Matthews: What do you mean there’s not a consistent position? How come when you meet them, they talk about the ’cause’? It sounds like the Confederate Army still fighting the Civil War when you talk to them.
Pappas: When we bring together Tea Partiers from across the country to FreedomWorks, what they agree on is on free-market fiscal responsibility and Constitutional limit to federal power. They disagree on everything else; social policy, immigration.
Matthews: My experience is they’re on the far right.
Pappas: We’ll have you by the next time they come. Open door.
Matthews: Far right. It is a far right political movement.