Rep. Steve LaTourette Slams Tea Party Criticism Of ‘Weak Moderate’ Romney: That’s ‘Crap’

Ohio’s outgoing Rep. Steve LaTourette appeared on CNN Starting Point Thursday morning, where he spoke a bit about how the Republican party should shift its focus.

He thought the Tea Party Patriots’ assertion that “we got a weak moderate candidate” in Mitt Romney was complete “crap:”

The Republican party cannot be a national party if we give up the entire East Coast of the United States…. We don’t have any Republicans in New England. We don’t have any Republicans in the Mid-Atlantic states. We can’t continue to diss the Latino voters…. We have the right message on the finances. We have to get out of people’s lives, get out of people’s bedrooms and we have to be a national party, or else we’re going to lose.

He explained that his wife, a Democrat, had been very close to voting Republican… until the likes of Akin and Mourdoch opened their mouths to make comments about conception through rape.

Watch, courtesy of CNN:

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