Did you like Ronald Reagan at all? Well what did he do? He UNITED the Republican Party against the Democrats and that was what McCotter was trying to do. If you insist on going it alone you are doomed to get NOTHING because there are more Democrats then Tea Party members.
The whole quote in context...
“The Administration and the Democratic Senate’s posturing show what America knows: We are being neither led nor governed. Yet, in their policy irresponsibility they remain in party unity. On the right take note. It is as unwarranted and injurious for a Republican to call a Tea Partier a hobbit as it is for a Tea Partier to call a Republican a R.I.N.O. For we cannot unite America if we divide the movement. Consequently, the time has come for the Tea Party to grow up and the Republican Party to wake up; and come together to serve and save this great nation.” — Thaddeus McCotter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3CD_ItiEc&feature=player_embedded
Sorry, but what he said is demeaning. I don't need or want to be scolded by the likes of him.
If he truly wants to bring the Tea Party and the Republican establishment together, he picked the wrong way to do it. His words resonate a whole lot better with the enemy, than they do with us.
McCotter can kiss my grits.