Posted on 11/17/2011 7:49:43 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Washington and Des Moines - Throughout the roller-coaster Republican presidential contest, one thing hasn't changed: the stubborn refusal of many tea party supporters to warm up to Mitt Romney.
The swift rise and abrupt fall of a succession of GOP candidates has been driven in part by the restless search for a Romney alternative by that group of voters, who energized the GOP's big turnaround in 2010.
"They don't trust Mitt Romney," said Simon Conway, a Des Moines radio host popular with tea party followers. "Mitt Romney can be tea party one minute, and the next minute introduce 'RomneyCare'" — the Massachusetts healthcare plan Romney pushed as governor.
Privately, Romney's campaign expects that tea party backers will rally around him once he starts winning primaries. Until then, he has made a carefully calibrated effort to embrace them.
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Chief architect of RomeyObamaCommieCare? Big government, mandate loving Romney? TARP loving, bailout approving, Porkulus pushing Romney? Tea party surrender to Romney?
Over my dead body!!
No surrender, no retreat!!
No RINOS!! No Romney!! No way!!
Long live the tea party rebellion!!
Its more like rape! Don’t tell us we should lie back and enjoy it!
They [the Rommney campaign]can expect whatever they please. I will not vote for him. If that means not voting Republican, so be it. Neither will I vote for Mr. Man made global warming, Pelosi’s boyfriend, A/k/a one Newt Gingrich.
He’s so used to changing his position he doesn’t understand those who wont.. and don’t. It’s called Conservative principles you fing Twit.. it’s the only thing that will save our country. We don’t want the likes of you.
The tea party surrender to Romney?
NUTS!!
Ain't no way a Log Cabin Republican is ever going to put his arms around me.
Fat chance Romney. We want you to go away.
Kapish?
Wary.....phhhttt.
If Romney wins the nomination, I writing in Palin on my ballot. No more RINOS!
That game's over, but they'll be the last to know. Stick a fork in Mitt, he's done. The snake-oil salesmen are going to lose this one and they'll go down howling all the way.
Hell no I don’t like mittens! But he will get my vote if he gets the nomination. ANYBODY BUT OBAMMA!!!
Honestly I talk to some establishment republicans here who are more afraid of a conservative president than they fear Obama.
Romney will lose the general if he gets the nod. Only one can and will take down Obama and his name is Mr. Herman Cain!
Yeah, that’s right, tell the RINOS what they want to hear!
“Jim Kouri, vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled a group of traits that define psychopathic personalities — like serial killers — and has discovered that these trait also apply to many of today’s politicians.”
http://www.viewzone.com/politicians.html
The tea partly will not surrender to you Romney. No way, no how, never.
Do you get it Mitt?
DEADLY advice. We must take back the Republican party from the bastards who have commandeered it, NOT create a "third" party which will ensure Democrat rule till the cows come home.
That's all he wants, he doesn't care what part of your body you're holding when you vote for him. If he can get so called conservatives to vote for him, for whatever reason, he will have demonstrated that we are indeed a one party Country and there is no reason for any politician to ever be concerned about what conservatives want. It will be over.
The establishment is doing everything they can to tear down everyone but Romney...his turn comes once he’s the nominee and then 4 more years of Obama.
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