Establishment GOPers Dancing On Graves Of Flailing Tea Party Campaigns

DANIEL STRAUSS – APRIL 3, 2014, 3:13 PM EDT

Amid recent allegations of tea partiers caught rubbing elbows with white supremacists and cock fighters, mainstream Republicans are having a hard time containing their exuberance over the struggling tea party challenger campaigns.

After TPM reported on Thursday that state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) backed out of headlining a gun rights rally thanks to attention on a vendor with questionable views on racial segregation, CNN Crossfire co-host S.E. Cupp tweeted McDaniel was an "ass" for agreeing to attend in the first place.

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Sorry, you get no credit for dropping out of white nationalist event you agreed to keynote. Ass. http://bit.ly/1scpnwC #Mssen

10:34 AM - 3 Apr 2014

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State Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS), the tea party candidate in the Mississippi Senate race, was listed as the keynote speaker at a gun rights event along with a Confederate memorabilia store owner who...

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"When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas," Republican strategist John Feehery told TPM in an email. "This is the problem with the tea party and their candidates. They lack judgement and that lack of judgement makes them poor general election candidates."

The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC), which has done some of the most heated battling with the outside groups that support McDaniel, quickly took to twitter to attack McDaniel over the episode.

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