From Eric Dondero:

The Left is constantly accusing the Tea Parties of having a "racist" bent. Some real live racist frauds have even shown up to a couple Tea Party rallies, holding racist signs. They were quickly denounced and ejected by the real Tea Party members. Some suspected that they were Democrat plants.

Now, fake Tea Partying is coming from a different direction. At least one Moderate Republican has been caught associating himself with the movement.

A certified Republican In Name Only (RINO), in Missouri used Tea Party symbolism in campaign literature. The guy has never shown up once to a Tea Party event, or has had anything to do with any state or local chapter.

State State Scott Rupp is being challenged for reelection in the GOP primary by Christian bookstore owner and State Rep. Cynthia Davis for State Senate (St. Charles County west of St. Louis). Davis is a hard-line religious conservative and home school advocate. Though, she has an economic libertarian streak. Last year she won national media attention for opposing school lunch programs. From HHPOA.org:

Last year Davis was scolded by liberal television commentator Keith Olbermann and others when she said “hunger can be a positivemotivator” in opposing taxpayer-funded food programs for poorchildren.

The well-known Missouri blog Bob McCarty Writes has picked these two plums from his voting record:

In May 2009, Rupp supported a House-Senate conference committee measure (H.B. 11) that critics say would have added 35,000 able-bodied people to the Show-Me State’s Medicaid rolls had it not been defeated.

In October 2009, Rupp went so far as to scold a state education official for not acting quickly enough to secure millions in strings-attached federal funding for the state via President Barack Obama’s “Race to the Top” education initiative.

According to McNarty, a local Tea Party leader Chuck McNab had this to say (via BigGovernment.com):

As we see it, his flyer attempts to create an illusion. For instance, we have never seen him show up to meet people or to help out at a Saturday rally of K & N Patriots, the largest and primary “tea party” group that has met every Saturday for over a year in his District. Cynthia Davis, his opponent, has shown up to help out, hold a sign and converse with participants at the corner of K & N almost every Saturday, sometimes for the entire duration of the rally.