The White House is pushing back on a report that President Obama's advisers are contemplating an all-out ad war to discredit Republicans by way of the Tea Party. But with the primaries now behind them, top Democratic officials have already made the Tea Party fear factor an integral part of their messaging.
Amid mounting predictions that Democrats could lose at least one chamber of Congress, a rhetorical campaign has been underway for weeks to cast the Republican Party as driven by the "extremist" faction of its conservative wing.
The New York Times reported Monday that Obama's advisers are considering whether to launch an ad campaign nationwide to portray the Tea Partiers as the new leaders of the Republican Party.
"I think they're misidentifying sort of who the culprits are here," he said, urging the groups to offer a more specific game plan. "It's not enough just to say get control of spending."
But conflating the grassroots conservative movement with establishment party politics is nothing new for the White House and top Democrats.
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