One and the same

The Democratic Party will be linking the far right-wing Tea Party movement with the Republican Party, in order to portray the GOP as a party of extremists and lunatics, with the right-wing grassroots activists as tools of the Republican establishment (which essentially is pretty accurate, considering the sympathy for the Tea Party and the crazy policy ideas of the Republicans, as well as many Tea Party and insane Republican candidates running for the Senate and the House of Representatives this fall).

It appears that the Democratic Party's strategy will be to from the November midterm elections as a contest between themselves and a joint Republican-Tea Party cabal which will privatize pretty much everything and defend big oil and Wall Street.

The Democrats plan to use the statements of Tea Party activists', as well as Republican sympathy and support for the movement, and present a "Republican-Tea Party Contract With America," similar to the 1994 Republican Contract With America which propelled Republicans to win control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four decades.

Democrats will portray the Tea Party movement as "the most potent force in Republican politics," according to the DNC website:

For the better part of the past year, Republicans have tried to come up with a new agenda for the American people with mixed results. However, with the Tea Party now the most potent force in Republican politics, and with the recent launch of the Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill garnering the support of Republican leaders like National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Pete Sessions and Republican Caucus Chair Mike Pence, the Republican Party agenda has become clear. Republican leaders and Tea Party supported Republican candidates can now rally around the "Republican Tea Party Contract on America" as the blueprint for how they would govern.