“The only way it won’t come down to Romney vs Perry is if Palin is not in the race. Because if Palin isn’t in the race it WILL come down to Romney vs Perry. How does Redstate explain that?”
Nope. Not happy to see that there by Conservatives 4 Palin.
Perry is simply not acceptable as a tea party candidate.
And there will be a tea party candidate.
The 2 top tea party candidates (currently running) placed 1 and 2 in the Iowa straw poll. Bachmann could lose some of her socon support to Perry, but that’s only a part of her appeal. Are the tea party candidates going to simply disappear? Romney and Perry appeal to the same type of people (although Romney appeals to Northerners and Perry Southerners) Slick RINOs, one with wingtips the other with cowboy boots.
Tea Party Candidates just got 2/3ds of the vote in Iowa. Palin is a tea party candidate, but Perry certainly isn’t. If Palin doesn’t get in, there most certainly be at least 1 tea party candidate standing all the way down the stretch. If it’s not Palin, it’s Bachmann and/or Paul.
In conditions where 2/3d of Ames Straw Poll voters are voting Tea Party, 2 RINOs battling it out is not possible.
Oh stop it. Ron Paul is not a Tea Party candidate. Bachmann certainly is, but Ron Paul is most definitely not.
Ron Paul has the same constituency, largely college kids, he had in 2008 - he's just had 4 more years of organization to turn out more of them.
University mush-heads who want to legalize pot, believe in a peacenik isolationist foreign policy, and think there is some hidden truth to 9-11 are NOT Tea Party.
The only reason Ron Paul isn't torn to shreds over his more bizarre views, particularly on foreign policy and things like drug legalization, is because no one actually believes (for good reason) that he is a serious candidate.
Our Hill Country Tea Party Patriots get together to support Governor Perry all the time.he’s a Texas Tea Party Patriot favorite.