Mitt Romney Compared Tea Party To 'Ferret In The Dishwasher': Michael Grunwald Book
by Luke Johnson
08/23/2012
Mitt Romney compared the tea party to a "ferret in the dishwasher" in a conversation with former Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah), according to a new book. The longtime senator lost his seat in a 2010 state party caucus vote because of a surge in Tea Party support for his opponent, now-Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
The anecdote was published in Time magazine in an adapted excerpt from Michael Grunwald's "The New New Deal," a sharply reported book about how the stimulus came to passage.
Bennett says his friend Romney commiserated with him about the Tea Party’s ingratitude, telling a presumably apocryphal story about getting bitten by a ferret he had tried to rescue from a dishwasher. "Mitt said the Tea Party people are like that ferret in the dishwasher," he says. “They’re so frightened and angry, they’ll even bite Bob Bennett, who’s trying to get the country out of this mess.”
The Tea Party has often viewed Romney with skepticism. The Tea Party-aligned group FreedomWorks opposed him in the primary, citing his past moderate positions...
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