Rob Simmons goes all teabaggy

by: Scarce

Wed Oct 14, 2009 at 15:09:53 PM EDT

Think Progress has some video up which seems to have come from one AndersonScooper.

This, of course, is pandering of the most venal sort, and it's both hard to believe Simmons is attempting it in so blatant a fashion or that it will be successful. The teabag crowd have already put Simmons on notice for his past indiscretions of voting moderately on a variety of social issues when he was in congress.

SIMMONS: This state and this country needs people like you. [...] I've made it a habit over the years to carry my Constitution in my pocket as a reminder of what this country and what this country's government is all about. But more recently because of the participation of many of you, I've added something to my Constitution. I've added a tea bag. [audience chuckles]

The video is from mid summer in July.

Watch Simmons adding a tea bag to his pocket Constitution at a recent tea party gathering and excitedly addressing a Norwich tea party in July.