Report: Obama Aides Pondering Tea Party Attack

White House advisers are flirting with a campaign aimed at linking the tea party movement with the Republican establishment, according to a story Monday in the New York Times.

The campaign would reportedly seek to capitalize on concerns that the handful of tea party candidates who have won their party’s primaries are out of step with mainstream voters.

The White House has denied giving such a move consideration. Politico reports that an administration official decried the piece as “100 percent inaccurate.”

The Times story comes the week after controversial tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell beat moderate Mike Castle in Delaware’s Republican primary. The unlikely win was widely trumpeted as the death knell for a Republican comeback in the Senate.