He is not comparing the Tea Party to a ferret. There was a story there: he compared the Tea Party to the frightened ferret he tried to rescue from the dishwasher but bit him. The very person trying to help the ferret bit because it is frightened. Romney was just trying to make an old friend feel better about his loss in the primary. Tea partiers are frightened, but not like they don’t know what they are doing by getting rid of RINOs.
Bennett is a RINO extraordinaire, and he is saying what they all say. That we are emotional, not logical, not enlightened enough to appreciate the RINOs. Screw them and Mitt Romney.