Posted on 06/05/2011 3:07:31 PM PDT by bimboeruption
The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination - - even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That's the affirmative word from Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.
Kremer told Fox News on Saturday, "whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire Tea Party movement."
Kremer went on to say the Tea Party is "completely neutral," adding that it "just wants to see the cream rise to the top... If Romney is the nominee I believe that we want to defeat Barack Obama."
Her confidence comes while some Tea Partiers, including some at FreedomWorks, a leading voice in the Tea Party movement, set their sights on stopping a Romney nomination.
Kremer also wants to put to rest the idea the Tea Party would support a third party candidate, insisting the Tea Party can work from within the democratic and republican parties.
"There is no way that we are going to support a third party candidate. It would split the vote and it would guarantee reelection for Obama, and we need to crush Obama we have to get him out of the White House," says Kremer.
Kremer also believes the Tea Party movement will have a "massive impact just as we did in 2010."
In fact, she feels the Tea Party and its elected representatives are responsible for the failure of a clean debt ceiling vote in congress this week.
"We are still having an impact here in Washington. I really believe that if it weren't for the Tea Party movement they would already raised the debt ceiling and the spending would continue to be out of control... The democratic party was completely split.
If it wasn't for this movement, I don't think you would...
(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...
Agree with her or not, I like the strategery. This article surely causes severe gastrointestinal pain and distress in all the Rats who view the Tea Party as a spoiler they can manipulate to split the anti-Obama vote and get the Dangerous Bumbler re-elected.
Keep saying it, Amy.
And, as I said, not to worry. Romney, no way, no how, will be the nominee. That is all.
I think this is exactly what Sarah was saying when she told the GOP they better back a good candidate or there may be a 3rd party candidate which could kill the GOP for good. If they back Romney it is pretty evident to me that the GOP is dead.
I think that is Amy’s point in the article.
The focus ought to be on the primaries right now.
Palin is doing a good job drop-kicking Romney off the playing field, but she can’t do this alone. We have to have our head in the game as well.
Me and you makes two.
I guess the rest on this thread will sit at home and play with themselves.
That isn’t what I’m saying. If someone who is unacceptable gets nominated it does no good to vote for them. The establishment will just keep craping on you by nominating Democrat-light hacks.
If Giuliani, Romney, or some other liberal hack who the establishment backs gets nominated, conservatives gain nothing by voting for him.
I 08 we had two Soros hacks to pick from. It was a slap in the face to conservatives. Don’t reward them for it. Otherwise they will never learn.
Elena Kagan would not be on the Supreme Court, for starters.
Israel would not have been told to return to its pre-1967 borders, for starters.
Kevin Jennings would not be something called a “Safe School Czar,” for starters.
Obamacare would not be the law of the land, for starters.
And that’s just for starters.
Since nobody tells the Tea Party what to do - who are they/we going to vote for?
Or are we/they going to split the Tea Party vote between three or four candidates allowing a RINO to float to the top?
Kinda’ like last election where the conservatives split their vote and we ended up with McLame?
Just over 25,000 grumpy voters in NC voted for Barr - giving NC to Obama.
Romney’s and Planned Parenthood...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2707737/posts
I will NOT vote for anyone who advocates killing babies.
When it comes to proclaiming who Tea Party members support, it might be a good idea to let them speak for themselves: http://myteaparty.org/results/
I think you’re right and she is too.
Regardless, the strategery works right now rather well.
No one in the political Establishment on either side of the aisle presently has any clue how the Tea Party *movement* actually is going to impact the primaries or the general. Will they coalesce around a newcomer? Split the vote? Effectively create a third party?
Whaaaa! It’s so confusing!
All good.
Probably so.
RINOs somehow always float to the top.
Anyone who looks for power, doesn’t deserve it.
Really?
Continue to vote the party line and you will continue to get what the party has given you for the last two decades.
No thanks. I have voted third party three times in a row, can't see not doing it again if I don't like what I see.
Just call me immature and self destructive....but at least I don't have to spend my life getting herded around by a Border Collie.
I was actually very encouraged with what Sarah said because if the GOP doesn’t back a good candidate, our country will go down regardless of who gets elected (assuming 3rd party won’t win). Let it go down on Obama’s watch and he goes down in history as the failure he is, and both parties will be dead in their present state. After that We the People, new party or greatly improved GOP, fix our country. I would rather us be spared the big time crash and burn by electing someone who will finally start to do the right things, but lots of people are in denial still. Better prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
I was actually very encouraged with what Sarah said because if the GOP doesn’t back a good candidate, our country will go down regardless of who gets elected (assuming 3rd party won’t win). Let it go down on Obama’s watch and he goes down in history as the failure he is, and both parties will be dead in their present state. After that We the People, new party or greatly improved GOP, fix our country. I would rather us be spared the big time crash and burn by electing someone who will finally start to do the right things, but lots of people are in denial still. Better prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
“And, as I said, not to worry. Romney, no way, no how, will be the nominee. That is all.”
I hope you are right , but who would have thought that McCain or Dole would have ever got the nomination. Remember we here at FR are speaking in an echo chamber that leans very very far to the right. Truth be told I doubt the powers that be in the Republican party really care for us a whole lot. I also don’t believe your average Republican voter has the same intensity that is found here. In other words it’s all very much up in the air and when the dust settles we may very well have Romney as the Republican candidate leaving all of us here at FR with a very serious decision to make. I made such a decision in 08 with McCain and have not been happy about it ever since.
Kremer does not speak for me or the Tea Party here in Southwest Ohio!
There’s a lot of truth in what you are saying. But I think it’s also true that a whole lot has changed since 2008. The old gig is up.
As far as I can see, Romney right now is cruising simply on name recognition and his connections with big-money donors. As soon as someone becomes a true alternative, I think he’s done for.
Recently I’ve begun to feel confident that a strong conservative candidate is going to emerge and take off. Could be Palin. Could be Cain. Or someone else. But the fog is going to lift sooner rather than later.
This is not going to be politics as usual this time around.
Kremer does not speak for me.
I went fishing rather than vote for McCain or Obama in 2008.
I can go fishing in November 2012, if the GOP puts up Romney, Gingrich or any of the old white-haired ‘moderate’ go-along-to-get-along elite Pubbies.
A ‘neither’ vote is just as valid as a vote for someone just because they got on the ticket.
P.S. I thought both McCain and Dole were totally predictable as nominees. There simply was no one alternate candidate around whom conservatives coalesced. Without that, their vote gets split and the “name” guy gets nominated.
That has less chance of happening this time around. I hope.
If you honestly believe that a McCain administration would have been as or more damaging to the nation and the world than this Obama administration, well, just dayum.
We’ll have to agree to disagree (big-time) on that.
I think you are right about Romney. Can’t we all just get along, nice guy ain’t gonna be the ticket this trip.
Watch him, listen to the tone of his voice, not his scripted words. The guy has no “fire in the belly” to fight to save America, somehow he thinks its his turn.
Get real. Ronald Reagan is dead and not coming back. You are on a path to bringing 0 back for another four years to completely destroy this country. Let the process play out (I’m talking to you, conservatives, in general) and do what you can to get a good candidate nominated. If the best you can produce is a Rino, that’s still better than the fascist pig currently in the WH.
--- No, it would likely be someone much more damaging, like David Souter.
You can't be serious. "Much more damaging"? Get back with me on that in about twenty years.
Israel would not have been told to return to its pre-1967 borders, for starters.
---Not legislative.
"Not legislative" is not relevant to the point, which stands, that President McCain would have never in a million years thrown Israel under a bus. That matters.
Kevin Jennings would not be something called a “Safe School Czar,” for starters.
---No argument there, but do we know what McCain's position on education is?
Whatever McCain's position is on education, he doesn't feel strongly enough about it to be in-your-face to the GOP base. Pushing homosexuality in schools was not where McCain would have decided to spend his political capital.
Obamacare would not be the law of the land, for starters.
--- It wouldn't be called Obamacare, but I'll bet there would still be a Romneycare-like law on the books now.
Do you honestly believe the millions of people who vehemently rejected socialized medicine would not have rejected it regardless of its cute political name?
Your fellow Patriots are not that dumb or that dupe-able. And unlike Obama, McCain would have had to fight his base tooth and nail to pull a McCaincare trick. No way We The People would have stood for that and no way McCain The Republican would have gone against the base in such a major way.
And P.S. The Rats would not have “let” McCain pass a Romneycare-type bill because they would not want a Republican president to get “credit” for the crown jewel of Socialism, socialized medicine.
They would have hemmed and stalled and preserved the issue for their next campaign.
“...I went fishing rather than vote for McCain or Obama in 2008...”
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Oh, so you are one of those who helped to elect Obama.
Any argument you make against that statement is invalid.
Romney has already Newted himself. He just didn’t do it as dramatically as the Newt did. Typically, he did it in a highly boring, snooze-fest fashion.
But he did it.
Romneycare, manmade global warning, blah blah blah. It’ll all start bubbling up soon.
“...I went fishing rather than vote for McCain or Obama in 2008...”
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“Oh, so you are one of those who helped to elect Obama.
Any argument you make against that statement is invalid.”
No, it was the RNC who helped obama get elected.
Another FReeper pointed out something to me that I think is very helpful.
He proposed that we not capitalize the words “tea party”.
After all, it is not an actual political party but rather is a general political outlook.
By capitalizing the words “tea party” we imply that it is something that might have leaders and thus we enable those who falsely claim to speak for all of us.
A daughter of some country club RINO, no doubt. Like she can speak for even her daddy and his friends.
The Tea Party Express has and will continue to be the most active anti-Establishment tea party group. Over 99% of the funds contributed by tea party groups to successful tea party candidates came from the Tea Party Express.
Amy Kremer’s comment was totally out of context. She prefaced it by saying that only a tea party supported candidate could be successful. The evenutal Republican nominee will have tea party support because they have earned it, not because this is an automatic. By her answering the hypothetical, it gave the wrong impression.
The Tea Party Express is continuing to fight for candidates who support the principles of limited government, lower taxes, an end to the skyrocketing national debt and a free economic market.
Having spent four national tours and almost 300 rallies with Amy, I can say with certainty that she is one of us and not a RINO by any stretch of the imagination.
Huh?
What’s the point?
Speaking strictly for myself, the Republicans nominated the ONLY Republican I could not vote for the last time - that POS McCain. Anybody that gets the nomination against Obama deserves our full support. Romney, Giuliani, Huntsman. I’d have problems with all of them but they’d all be a hell of a lot better than four more years of Obama. THAT would be the end of America.
Ah, the old "failure to vote against is a vote for" strawman. Bravo, well done!
For one thing there is no Tea Party. There are Tea Parties. Each is independent of the other. Tea Party Conservatives will not vote for a RINO. If we do that we might just as well pull the demrat lever.
She, and RINOs like her, need to absorb the fact the Tea Party conservatives will not vote RINO, libertarian or anything in between. This means that these pretenders will not win as they need our vote to make it happen.
If these people are truly demrat opponents what is it about conservative candidates that is so troubling to them?
Wrong answer, Amy.
You voted for 0. Now just STFU!
That statement is invalid.
“I will NOT vote for anymore GD Rinos! Period!”
So, you are saying if a Rino the nominee, you will, in effect, vote for 0. What an odiot you are!
“...The ‘anybody but ...’ doesn’t work with many of us...”
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Thank you for helping to to elect B.O.!
That is just what George Soros wanted you to do.
As I said, your argument is invalid.
Thank you for helping to to elect B.O.!
That is just what George Soros wanted you to do.
The demcratic processs is okay when not manipulated, but it is proven that 0 got in because of people who voted like you.
The Dems helped George the Younger pass Bush-Care. They don’t give him credit for it.
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