Perhaps it was because the premise of the scandal — that Obama’s political team would want to destroy local Tea Party groups — was absurd. For Democrats, local Tea Party groups were a political Giving Tree, bearing glorious, loopy fruit such as Christine O’Donnell and Todd Akin, Tea Party candidates who managed to lose crucial Senate campaigns that a competent Republican – perhaps any competent Republican — would’ve won.

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