Rachel Maddow: I’m Amazed How Tea Party Has Revisited 90’s Culture Wars

Rachel Maddow was on the Today show yesterday, presumably not for the first time, though it is admittedly a little strange to see her pop up on a network morning show. She was ostensibly there to talk about her special on murdered abortion provide Dr. George Tiller but, needless to say, also weighed in on next week’s midterms and what she has found most surprising.

The thing that has surprised me most [about Tea Party candidates] is how much they are into social issues. The sort of culture wars issues of the 1990’s. Going back to hardline issues of abortion, hardline issues on gay rights. Hardline position on the Second Amendment, in Sharron Angle‘s case some very threatening language…that’s been what’s surprising I think.

Perhaps less surprising if you consider many of these issues also make for cable and blogosphere talking points. It will be interesting to see how many of these more extreme candidates actually get voted into office next week…if the result is not a lot, I think we can expect a lot of talk about how the media heavy-ended coverage of candidates not necessarily worthy of all the attention. Watch below.

[h/t RCP]

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