So much for that "Tea Party favorite" label.
The leader of a key Tea Party-affiliated group wants Michele Bachmann to call it quits and end her bid for the White House.
In a harshly worded statement posted on the group's website Thursday, American Majority president Ned Ryun said that Bachmann's campaign "has become less about reform and more about her personal effort to stay relevant and sell books," and that the longer the Minnesota Republican stays in the race the more damage she risks doing to the conservative movement.
As CNN, which first spotted the post, points out: American Majority operates in seven states, trains thousands of supporters and is "liked" by more than 371,000 people on Facebook. Its suggestion that Bachmann step aside is the first time a well-known Tea Party group has so publicly turned on one of its own during the presidential campaign.
"Every day [Bachmann's] campaign flounders, it risks hurting the credibility of the movement," Ryun writes, closing his open letter with this dig at the woman who chairs the House Tea Party Caucus: "The Tea Party doesn't have a spokesperson, and it's certainly not Michele Bachmann."
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