Posted on 01/30/2012 9:22:21 AM PST by Rufus2007
On the online “Green Room” segment of Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC, conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham speculated that Romney’s strength in the contest is a sign that the tea party might not be as strong as conventional wisdom would suggest.
“They don’t have the power that they thought they had, perhaps,” Ingraham said. “I mean, Romney is not a tea party candidate, and they’re talking about 27 percent of the Republican Party that still believe it’s tea party infused. The tea party, they have a lot of energy but you know … more of a moderate view of conservatism seems to get nominated every time. And that’s just a fact. The tea party doesn’t have the great strength that the old media believe.”
Washington Post columnist George Will didn’t completely agree that the tea party has lost it’s strength. He suggested that Romney pick a tea party running mate, and said the grassroots should focus on winning in the Senate until they have stronger national candidates.
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The more Laura Ingraham and her ilk like Ann Coulter open thir pie holes, the more power they had fades away.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/romney-judicial-record-liberals-running-wild/
Romney judicial record: Liberals running wild
When GOP candidate had chance to influence bench, he appointed leftists
That's right, offer the tea party a small token to forget what a damn liberal Romney is. That has been the GOP E's plan the whole time.
The RINO establishment is right! We will never be able to win the general election if we nominate a far-right conservative. All that far-rightism will turn off the independents and make them vote for the far-left Barack Obama instead. Therefore we must nominate a moderate Republican. As the RINO brigade has demonstrated, the choice is clear. The moderate Republican we are looking for to go up against Barack Obama is NEWT GINGRICH! A far-right conservative wacko like Mitt Romney would be absolutely destroyed by Obama in the general election. /sarc
Newt was tea before tea was hot.
Photo by AP In this April 15, 1994 file photo, House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia and 7th District (Ga.) congressional candidate Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Ga.
What??? You mean I have to change my long-standing tag line?
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