Posted on 04/01/2012 11:25:52 AM PDT by Mozilla
Mitt Romney, Tea Party candidate? Not so fast.
The Republican front-runner appeared to be on an easy path to the nomination the morning after his win in Illinois, when The Washington Times reported that an influential tea party group, Freedom Works, was ready to fall in line behind him, supposedly capping the monthslong struggle Romney has endured to sway conservative voters.
Unfortunately for Romney, the report — especially the headline — wasn't totally right, and the tea party is showing no sign of uniting behind him, or any candidate for that matter. Though the tea party remains a force in the GOP primary, it is a fractured group whose members have separate allegiances to all four candidates in their first presidential election as a movement.
"Finally, Romney Gets Tea Party Support" read the headline on the Times story, which quoted a FreedomWorks vice president as saying that "it is a statistical fact that the numbers favor Mitt Romney"
FreedomWorks later clarified that the VP of the tea party organizing group, which boasts 1.6 million members, was merely talking about the state of the GOP race, and that Romney is the front-runner, fairly obviously.
"The headline was pretty misleading. We're not backing Romney for president at all," said Jackie Bodnar, a FreedomWorks spokeswoman.
FreedomWorks had protested Romney at a tea party rally in New Hampshire over what it said were inaccurate comments Romney had made about his policies being consistent with tea party sentiment.
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The Tea Party gets to chose the best of the loft overs. They need to start an new party and run true conservatives of their own not look for the best of the worst.
The Tea party will never be ready for Romney.
The Gope are making a big mistake ramming him
down our throats.
What about those who got elected with Tea Party support and now endorse Romney and it always comes with the announcement that Romney now has Tea Party support. I believe that some who were elected with Tea Party support are losing credibility with some of their electorate. I am also intrested in the release of Romney and Romney PAC contributions to his endorsers, I live in Mississippi and I was very surprised by his endorsers here and they have lost credibility and trust with me, even if I don’t find they took money from him.
“Unfortunately for Romney, the [Washington Times] report — especially the headline — wasn’t totally right”
An ironic statement from ABC News considering that their own reporting is often misleading at best and downright propaganda at worst. Their bias is off the charts; they have no credibility whatsoever.
“I think the Tea Party needs to stay focused on local Congressional and Senate elections.”
I agree. We have to make sure that a good congress is ready to lead in 2013 and do better than the one elected in 2010. 2010 was a start but for 2012 the congress has to be the focus specially since we lost a big chip with Romney about to get nominated.
It is Ironic. ABC is the All Barack Channel. I am just glad Freedomworks cleared up the mess. They still don’t actively support Romney.
The 2010 election was a shock to the Establishment. They NEVER want to admit new members to the club. Just look at the treatment they gave to the party nominees in Nevada and Delaware before the election. Better a liberal Democrat, better Harry Reid than some non-club member.
Or Murkowski,,, GOP wanted her and deliberately pushed her, both to derail a TEA party alternative, and to cut off Sarah at the knees.
Or Murkowski,,, GOP wanted her and deliberately pushed her, both to derail a TEA party alternative, and to cut off Sarah at the knees.
Sarah made the mistake of upstaging the “star” of the campaign. Not only him, but Romney the “understudy”of the star. It quickly became evident to those who had hitched their wagon to Romney’s star that if she was successful that she would leapfrog to the top of the heap in 2012.
Since when would the teaparty ever vote for a demorat?
Romney never broke bread with the Tea Party. Not once.
I think he knew better than to even try it. We see right through the fraud.
FOX News just spent about 10 minutes absolutely savaging Romney on their little election headquarters show. I’ve certainly never seen anything like this on FOX before. This was like reading a Romney thread on FR. The panel had Cadell, Schoen (Dem-leaning guys) and another guy who I believe is a conservative. They looked at the latest polls where Romney is down 10-15 points by Obama. They railed him for running a bad campaign, being too negative, making his “rich-man” gaffes, being out-of-touch with voters (unlike many previous wealthy presidential candidates), for the GOP elites pushing him while the base doesn’t want him, for him now seeming less electable than ever, etc. They compared him to Dole and to how the Dems had effectively destroyed Dole’s electability by July. Cadell suggested the party might have to pull the plug on his campaign at the convention no matter how the delegates wind up. The next part of their segment is starting now.
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