Inside the Intra-Tea Party Smackdown

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How complicated is intra-Tea Party movement politics?

Well, for starters the more legitimately grassroots faction seems to be the one allied with corporate-cash-backed FreedomWorks. And in the increasingly acrimonious battle, David McKalip, the Florida anti-reform doctor who got caught sending around racist images of President Obama as a witch doctor, has now apparently thrown his lot in with the more bought-and-paid-for consultant run wing of the movement.

Still don’t know who’s who in Tea Party movement land? Zack Roth explains.

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