FreedomWorks CEO promises Chris Matthews: Tea Party will ‘upgrade’ southern GOP by 2014

Despite reports that his group is nearly broke, FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe predicted in an interview with MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday that his group would help Tea Party Republicans dominate the GOP within a year.

“I think it’s a process,” Kibbe told Matthews. “I think it happens by 2014, ‘cause we’re trying to shift the center of gravity.”

Kibbe did note that he favored supporting moderate Republicans in liberal-leaning states, but southern states like South Carolina should be represented by a “hardcore constitutional conservative that doesn’t want to spend money we don’t have.”