Right Wing Rallies Around Tea Party After NAACP Condemns Movement For Harboring Racists

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Right Wing Rallies Around Tea Party After NAACP Condemns Movement For Harboring Racists

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Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 14, 2010, 8:38AM

Conservative political groups and the NAACP have rarely been friendly. But their already cool relationship has taken a turn for the frosty in the past several days, as the NACCP took direct aim at the tea party movement at its national convention in Kansas City. Last night, delegates at the convention unanimously passed a resolution calling on the tea party movement to "repudiate the racist elements and activities" of its membership in the past.

The reaction from the right is as you'd imagine it.

Scattered incidents of bigotry at tea party rallies have been well documented over the last year, and even tea party leaders have admitted that racism -- among other nasty -isms and -obias -- can be found at tea party demonstrations. So to critics of the NAACP then, the argument essentially comes down this: tea party bigotry is tangential to the movement, not central to it.

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1. The GOP will "mirror" the tea partiers and empathize with them in an attempt

to make a permanent connection with their base. Will these two crazy, myth-making, cold hearted groups fall in love with each other? They hate everyone else in the world so I would not be surprised.