Tea Party May Be Dead. And Conservative Media is Robert the Bruce

We awoke today with news that Mitt Romney’s nomination has now risen to nearly 57% of the GOP nationally, and that in the most fervent conservative state in the country, South Carolina, Tea Party “membership” has dropped from 28% to 11%.

For weeks the supposed conservative media pushed either a disingenuous, social conservative statist hypocrite, or a liberal socialist in conservative clothing ignoring the only man that expanded conservatism nationally and balanced the budget 4 consecutive years with a liberal Democrat President and an overwhelming RINO Republican majority.

I have something to say about that. Am I damn sure ain’t gonna let Longshanks or the Scottish RINO Nobles take my country.

Continued at: http://www.politijim.com/2012/04/rip-tea-party-long-live-william-wallace.html

You do realize that Reagan didn't win that one.

Of course. I also know that Reagan drew more primary votes than Ford, and that he did all this before Internet and talk radio. I TRIED To follow Reagan as a 13 year old that year, and it was so bad that outside of National Review (which was always two weeks behind), my next best source was U.S. News (which was a touch more conservative then, and only one week behind.)

In any event, the race was close enough to have gone either way.

Don't go taking any kind of hereditary blood oaths of vengeance.

This is more of a matter of restraining the establishment, and avoiding having no home whatsoever. Then, there is no short term means to getting a place at the table. The mor ROmneys we accept, the harder it will be later. When Buchanan picked up 38% in '92 against George the Elder, he SHOULD have taken it as a warning that disaster loomed, as Buchanan's qualifications were marginal. LBJ, a more savvy pol, understood this when he stepped down after McCarthy's showing in '68. If we give three years for Romney to be other than what he has always been, it will be to late to counter.

Based on what I've seen she doesn't really want that job.

The bus tour and the tease, I don't believe was an extended joke. I believe that she realized she would have problems against such a large field, splitting her support, but not Romney's. I may be wrong.

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