“The tea party has tapped into voter frustration and anger,” he said, “but does not represent millions of Americans in the vast middle.”
Who does he think is at the TEA parties? It’s mostly the “vast middle” that this moron is talking about.
They are clueless, but remember that elites hang with other elites. They don't know anyone in the "vast middle", nor do they care to. They might have seen a picture of one once accidentally - before they could avert their eyes.
Now this "Tea Party Rabble" has started making noise and they have had plenty of opportunity to view "the other side". They realllly don't like what they see, so they all they can do is hope that there are other people "out there" that don't look, think or act like these "scary" ones.