Day after losses, Romney says he's better tea party candidate than GOP rivals

StarTribune ^ | February 8, 2012 | STEVE PEOPLES , Associated Press

[mdittmar]

ATLANTA - Mitt Romney says he's a better tea party candidate than his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.

The former Massachusetts governor lashed out at Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum on Wednesday, the day after losing contests in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.

Romney says his opponents are members of a Republican Party that had lost its way. He says spending on lawmakers' pet projects doubled under Gingrich, a former House speaker. He says Santorum, a former senator, was a major proponent of that type of spending.

Romney says the tea party movement was created to fight Washington insiders who spend too much and that Santorum and Gingrich "are the very Republicans who acted like Democrats."

[hoosiermama]

Turn, turn, turn

[biggredd1]

santorum and romney...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu50Hb61jVQ&feature=player_embedded

[SeaHawkFan]

Can't believe this wasn't from The Onion".

[cripplecreek]

Dede Scozzafava

[TomGuy]

I doubt Romney even understands what is the basis of the Tea party movement.

Most of the Elite Republicans certainly don’t. McCain didn’t in 2008. McConnell doesn’t. Boehner doesn’t.

[sodpoodle]

Does he even know what TEA means?

He was semi-hinged........advancing to totally unhinged.

[hoosiermama]

Hey Dio, Romney actually used the term “Pet Projects”

Maybe there should be a “Hot dog” alert every time he mentions ‘pets’

Do you have a ping list for it yet?

[ColdOne]

What a loon Mittens is.

[Eleutheria5]

You mean...you mean...Romney lost? He’s not inevitable? M-m-my world is c-c-c-crushed!/sarc

[houeto]

I had to check because I would have sworn this was satire.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Wow, that’s a very revealing video.

[mdittmar]

Maybe they will,in November.

[ColdOne]

Not only a loon, he is a liar. He know exactly who the Tea Party is he and his minions HATE the Tea Party.

[jimbo123]

Romney is bonkers.

[rcofdayton]

Romney is obviously a post modernist; words have no meaning to him.

[ReneeLynn]

Politics and strange bedfellows...

[Deagle]

Why would any of the Tea Party have a problem with Romney? After all, he does like drink tea...

In reality, both the GOP (almost all) and Romney have been trying to distance themselves from the Tea Party from day one. After all, how can they benefit from being in control of a party that does not expand government, expand spending, and expand benefits!

Yes, the GOP is not unlike the Democrats - just matters who controls the purse strings!

[murron]

I wonder if he said it with the same conviction he says he’s pro-life? When he says he’s pro-life he looks like he’s saying a foreign word or phrase, and he has to literally spit out the words.

[UKrepublican]

The sheer audacity of this man to use the Tea Party in such a way to attack rivals beggars believe.

It shows just how far the American media has fallen that he would feel comfortable and confident enough to wrap himself up in the Tea Party flag.

What a shambles.........he must be defeated.

[Psalm 144]

Right. Who has the Bishop Willard Romney clown face image?

Please report. The bishop has given up character assassination for stand up comedy.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Tea Party candidate Mittens Obaromney???? LOL! In your dreams Willard!

[boomop1]

Romney grasping for sugar coated straws.

[dragonblustar]

I see Mitt, “the magical mormon”, is living in fantasy land again.

[nicmarlo]

Day after losses, Romney says he's better tea party candidate than GOP rivals

haa haaaaaa haaaaa. Best laugh I've had all day.

I've yet to meet ANYONE in my circle of acquaintances and friends who would vote for Romney.

[Earthdweller]

The video says it all. Just what I thought, Santorum and Romney are double teaming Newt.

By splitting the anti-Romney vote they are making it impossible for conservatives to get the percentages needed to look good on the charts.

The thing that shocked the GOP-e is that Santorum out-shined the target yesterday. Doesn't bode well for the Romulan.

[drypowder]

I know Mormons aren't supposed to ingest anything that the church deems as harmful to the body, such as coffee. They are also held to account by the church in the way they live. If Romney actually believes his own words re the best TEA party candidate he's either on something that causes delusions or he's a liar. In either case, he fails the expected standard of the Mormon religion. I am not passing judgement on the man but obviously he puts politics above his faith.

[Earthdweller]

Your video needs to have it’s own thread.

[nicmarlo]

Romney says the tea party movement was created to fight Washington insiders who spend too much....

LIAR ! You know that's another fabrication. Drop dead, Romney!

[FresnoRobert]

It's really revealing and shocking when you see a conservative Republican support a moderate Republican (Romney) who happens to be running against a liberal (McLame) Republican. Shocking I say!

Wait a minute. Didn't pretty much all conservatives support the more conservative of the two? Well, I guess it's not so shocking or revealing after all!

[evad]

This guy gets more like a Dem-Mitt every day

[John 3_19-21]

[dragonblustar]

Looks like the Obama army is gearing up for Romney.... Look at what I found.

[GeronL]

wait... this isn’t comedy?

[EGPWS]

Romney drinks tea?

So what!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Bullcrap, Mittens.

[EGPWS]

This guy gets more like a Dem-Mitt every day

No, he's just showing what he always has been much more.

[goat granny]

I’d say that boy is deaf, dumb and blind.....

[TomGuy]

Maybe they will,in November.

They still think November 2010 was a fluke.

[MaxMax]

Day after losses, Romney says he's better tea Koolaid party candidate than GOP rivals

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[JediJones]

There’s more than a slight difference when you spend money that you have the budget for (Newt in 1990s) vs. when you spend money that you have to borrow from China (Rick in 2000s).

[conservaterian]

Hey Mitt - Listen very closely this time: WE DON’T WANT YOU!

[lonevoice]

I heard clips of this on a couple of radio shows this morning. I could be wrong, but I don’t believe Mittens actually used the words “Tea Party”. He may have used the word “conservatives”, but not “Tea Party”. Mittens has gone so far out of his way to avoid even acknowledging the existance of something called the “Tea Party”, that I imagine if he even uttered the words he’d vanish in a cloud of sulphurous-smelling oily black smoke. Hmmm...maybe we could trick him into doing that somehow.

[mmanager]

By the time this is over he will be claiming he is a direct decendent of Ronald Maximus.

What a slut.

[Marguerite]

Maybe he cannot read such a small print ... Let's try to fix that:

Hey Mitt - Listen very closely this time:

WE DON’T WANT YOU!

[Breto]

boy oh boy somebody open up a bottle of antipsychotic drugs and give them to Willard he is totally delusional....

[Old Sarge]

[FreedomPoster]

Dope. He’s smoking it, inhaling deeply.

[mdittmar]

You are correct,mitt never mentions the Tea Party.