Friday, October 16, 2009

It sure doesn't taste like astroturf

You know how the media has coined the term republican astroturfing to describe tea partiers?

Someone better get that memo to the tea partiers......
Republican officials turned to a conservative icon and invoked an anti-tax pledge Thursday to salvage the slumping campaign of a New York congressional candidate competing with a more conservative third-party challenger, part of an ongoing battle between the fiscally hawkish "tea party" movement and the Republican establishment.
That doesn't sound like an astroturf moment for the GOP.

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