POLITICO.com: DNC chair Tim Kaine: Tea parties 'devouring the GOP'

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said Thursday that the tea party movement is “devouring” the Republican Party and is already proving “corrosive” in key GOP primaries.

Speaking at the 11th annual American Democracy Conference hosted by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and POLITICO, Kaine argued that while the “headwind” may be against Democrats heading into 2010, divisions within the GOP will prove deadly to the Republican brand.

“The tea party movement is devouring the GOP,” he said. “It is something that we expect to see going forward.”

Kaine pointed to last month’s special House election in New York’s 23rd District — where Democrat Bill Owens ended up winning a long-held Republican seat because of divisions between supporters of Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman and GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava — as an example of what he anticipates will happen in future Republican primaries.

“We are already seeing some pretty corrosive primaries in the Texas governor’s race, the Florida governor’s race,” he said. Kaine added that there is a “corrosive and consistent fight” within what he referred to as “the tea bag party.”

“On the Republican side, we see a party that is narrowing geographically, narrowing ideologically and narrowing demographically,” the DNC chairman said.

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30190.html

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