McConnell refuses to denounce Tea Party racism: ‘I am not interested in getting into that debate.’

McConnell refuses to denounce Tea Party racism: ‘I am not interested in getting into that debate.’

Today on CNN’s State of the Union, host Candy Crowley asked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) about the NAACP’s resolution calling on the Tea Party movement to condemn the “racist elements” in its ranks. McConnell, however, brushed aside accusations of racism, saying he’s “got better things to do”:

CROWLEY: Well, as you know, this weekend, NAACP said that the tea — there are racist elements in the tea party.

MCCONNELL: I am not interested in getting into that debate. What we are interested in is trying to have an election this fall that will respond to what the American people are asking us to do, which is to have some checks and balances here. <...>

CROWLEY: Nothing that you have seen on TV, including some of the signs that we’ve seen, albeit the minority at some of these tea party rallies, some of the posters that have been put up in the name of some factions of the tea party make you the least bit uncomfortable?

MCCONNELL: Look, there are all kinds of things going on in America that make me uncomfortable, both on the right and on the left. I have got better things to do than to wade in to all of these disputes and discussions that are going on out in the country. What we are trying to do is to make the president a born again moderate. We are trying to send enough conservatives to Congress this November to move him in a different direction.

Watch it:

Last year, McConnell was quick “to heap the most fulsome praise” on the Tea Party protests while “bashing the media” for portraying the protests unfavorably. Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, TeaParty365 co-founder David Webb said that the National Tea Party Federation “expelled” Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express “in the last 24 hours” for his “clearly offensive” satirical letter saying “coloreds” supported slavery.

VIDEO at http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/18/mcconnell-tea-party-naacp/

the party who wins elections by tapping into the racism and sexism of their supporters to create issues that never existed before to obscure the real issues.

from somewhere.

Get out and vote and make sure they don't come back into power.

The racist vote is sowed up, there's no more left for them to pick up. When the Democrats retain the Senate, he can look forward to handing over his job to Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn.

Mich McConnel now speaks for them? Least they are now admiting the ties I guess.

people in the party. They would never vote for a Democrat.

his brown shirt. Mitchie won't answer my letters anymore. If some large corp or a rich donor calls he will shit all over himself to get to the phone. A bearded Queen too. God I hate that SOB!!!