Det är inte helt lätt att vara republikansk senator och kritisera den nu allt starkare Tea Party. En som tydligt tar avstånd från Tea Party är Lindsey Graham från South Carolina.
Graham: Tea Party will die out
“Everything I’m doing now in terms of talking about climate, talking about immigration, talking about Gitmo is completely opposite of where the tea party movement’s at,” Graham says. “The problem with the tea party, I think, is it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country. It will die out.”
Graham later says that the GOP has shifted so far that Ronald Reagan would have trouble getting elected in today’s party.