Not only do Tea Baggers pass out literature and various other items paid for by the GOP, they also get heavily promoted on the Republican media network known also as Fox News. Moreover, they are financed entirely by Republican front groups and other Republican operatives. And most of all, The Daily Caller nails it on the head:
While a number of self-identified Tea Party candidates are running in Republican primaries across the country, there is fear among Republicans that some activists will run as third-party candidates and split the conservative vote, catapulting Democrats into office.Yep, that's it. Tea Baggers are running all over the country on the Republican ticket. When one of them wins an election, it's the GOP that picks up the seat not the Tea Party. This Tea Bagger crap is a way for Republicans to disown their crazies. That's it. When one of them says something totally stupid like the president was born in Kenya or that we should have literacy tests before people are allowed to vote, all the GOP has to do is claim that's some other political organization and they are absolved. But when one of them wins an election, it's the GOP that gets the spoils.
Here's how Tea Bagger Michael Leahy described the immaculate conception of the GOP material:
Michael Patrick Leahy, an organizer of the Take the Town Halls to Washington project that is bringing Tea Party activists to the capital to lobby Democrats on President Obama’s health-care bill, admitted that the RNC “did provide the signage,” but said he didn’t know the details of the arrangement with Republicans and couldn’t explain how the signs got there. “They just showed up,” he said.
Right out of thin air I'm sure.
