Posted on 01/18/2012 8:44:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Have the tea partiers found their man to challenge President Obama?
The leader of South Carolina’s chapter of the Tea Party Patriots says they have — and it’s Newt Gingrich.
In an interview on Wednesday with The Daily Caller, Joe Dugan, who is also the chairman of the local Myrtle Beach Tea Party, said he sees increasing signs that conservative activists in the Palmetto State are beginning to coalesce around the former Speaker of the House.
“My sense is there is a growing coalition behind Newt Gingrich,” said Dugan, who organized a state tea party convention last weekend that both Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum attended.
Dugan personally supports Gingrich and said the board of the Myrtle Beach Tea Party has endorsed the former House speaker’s campaign.
He also made it clear that the tea partiers he knows are not fans of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is leading in many polls here ahead of Saturday’s primary.
“We don’t want somebody who is a moderate,” Dugan said, “that will try to compromise with Democrats to perpetuate the crises that we are encountering in this country.”
But no one candidate throughout the Republican primary has been able to consolidate the support of the tea party movement. National polls show that there is no clear “tea party” candidate — a recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows Romney and Gingrich essentially tied when it comes to tea party support nationally.
But if that is changing, it was symbolized Tuesday night when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said on Fox News that if she was voting in the South Carolina primary, she would support Gingrich.
On Wednesday, a leader with the Tea Party Express organization told TheDC that Gingrich seems to have the most buzz among tea party activists heading into South Carolina’s primary. But he said there still isn’t a tea party consensus candidate.
“We poll continuously to monitor our people, and they have bounced from candidate to candidate as the national polls have shown as well,” strategist Sal Russo told TheDC. “Each of the major candidates has taken the lead in our poll for a period of time. Right now it is a pretty close race with our people. Gingrich leads, followed by Romney, Paul and Santorum.”
Russo said, “We had thought there would be a developing tea party consensus after our September debate and tour, but obviously that has not happened.”
Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer recently said the organization would endorse ahead of Saturday’s primary, but Russo told TheDC on Wednesday that “our goal is still to endorse if a consensus begins to develop, but we haven’t seen it… yet.”
Russo said it’s possible they “will just be supportive of all of the candidates and keep our focus on the Senate and House for the time being.”
“The gratifying thing for us is that all of the remaining candidates have appealed to tea party voters and each of them has significant support,” he said. “So I consider it a victory if we have multiple acceptable candidates.”
I just want to see Santorum enjoy his win, and for Willard to go to a 1-3 record after IA, NH, SC, and FL.
Thanks for the warning. However, could it be that Newt in his advanced age may be hitting a new stride re: where this country is headed? Might he see what this President is doing (deliberately) to this country as we can see by just looking around?
Among those left standing who are not Mitt Romney, Newt's 'grasp' of what needs to be done to correct our situation is no doubt shared by others, yet he has a way of expressing his distaste for most things Leftist (moderators included) in a way GWB never could have.
Our situation is very serious with the debt bubble being blown-up by O'Blamer- the Muslim impostor. So bad that I couldn't vote for GWB if he could run again. I too, feel a conservative is needed to contrast with O'Blamehole in order to win and begin the repairs. If McRomney is chosen we're screwed but may still win the Senate as every scum-sucking democrat that voted for Death Panel Care without knowing what was in it deserves to be kicked to the curb. Preferably in the teeth.
And then there are the appointments Buraq-The-Lying-Kenyan has made that'll need to be crow barred from their positions in government. All of this will take a bad-boy-with-attitude on a mission from Main Street where the people have had it with corrupt politicians and aren't going to take it anymore.
Right now, Newt may just be the bad-guy/gun-slinger that we need to clean up the streets Washington, D.C. Whatever his ex-wife wishes to contribute may backfire as it may bolster his "image" rather than detract from it.
We're going up against the Left, not liberals anymore. They are full-blown communists (see Van Jones) and will not be giving up the brass ring without a real fight.
Mr. Nice Guy isn't going to cut it this time around. Eighty years of creeping socialism and utopianism have brought us to the point where putting a stop to it will cause a lot of teeth gnashing and fits (see Wisconsin). Someone said that eighty years ago government was too small, but today it is too big. I agree. Whoever we nominate had better have the fed in their sights and plans for carving a lot of weight out of government.
Four years ago McCain lost in part because the Left (commies) wrapped GWB around his neck. This election we'll have Buraq to wrap around his own neck. McCain also tried to be a nice guy. This time we can't afford a nice guy who won't stand up for the "clingers", Buraq's "enemies", and anyone else who's paying taxes and not on food stamps, yet.
A Progressive in the Teddy Roosevelt tradition in not anywhere close in describing a liberal progressive of today.
Much the same way Herman Cain had from the beginning
We've just cast our early ballots for Newt here in Florida
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“Newt is a self proclaimed progressive republican.”
His voting record says otherwise...! Your empty rhetoric means nothing.
“Do some research about this phoney and you will see the light. That is unless of course all you are interested in is pushing the liberal agenda forward from the GOP side of the isle.”
Care to post some of the research papers you have done so tha me may be able to share in ur wisdom. UR AREN’T NEWT’S EX-WIFE BY ANY CHANCE ARE YA?
Just curious....!
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
Just Endorse NEWT ALREADY!
Today, Rush Limbaugh said that Republican voters know now that Conservatism is “in Newt’s heart.”
“What we had last night in the Newt portion of the debate alone, was the pure and simple, forceful, passionate articulation of conservative principle and belief, that before last night was missing for whatever reason…we know now that it’s in Newt’s heart, it’s there.”
Limbaugh was commenting on a montage of sound bytes from Newt Gingrich in last night’s Republican debate held in South Carolina. Rush said that the crowd erupted after the Former Speaker’s responses because Republicans are “thirsting” for someone to say what they believe in a philosophical and ideological sense.
“The people in the Myrtle Beach building last night and the audience watching know full well what made this country great…and they don’t hear it articulated. They hear instead people afraid to be critical of liberalism, afraid to be critical of Obama.”
“So somebody last night cast aside the fear and just hit them between the eyes, I mean the Left.”
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