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'Tea party' pols sell out the tea party - Names who endorsed Romney after taking cash from his PACs
World Net Daily ^ | 02/06/2012 at 8:17 PM | Steve Baldwin

Posted on 04/14/2012 10:55:21 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

In March of 2011, former Rep. John Leboutiller predicted in a News Max article that, “the tea party will select the 2012 GOP nominee.”

At the time, it was a safe prediction given the strength of the tea-party movement in the 2010 elections and the influence it was expected to have on the GOP presidential primaries just over a year later. But something went terribly wrong in the meantime. Many politicians heavily supported by the tea-party movement seem to have switched sides, pursuing their own agenda at the expense of the conservative movement and the tea party.

Take Christine O’Donnell, for example. O’Donnell lost her bid for the U.S. Senate in Delaware but continues to have a following among tea-party activists. Inexplicably, she recently endorsed Romney, stating she is doing so because she thinks “infrastructure and executive experience are important.” She also claimed, “He’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”

One wonders if the $5,000 O’Donnell received in 2010 from Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC had any influence on her decision.

Similarly, the tea-party movement was heavily involved in the election of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, but she endorsed Romney last month, claiming in her endorsement remarks, “He knows how to create jobs and turn the economy.” Haley also received some big bucks from Romney; to be precise, she took $36,000 from Romney’s various PACs over the last few years, more than any other gubernatorial candidate.

Then there’s Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a long-time favorite of tea-party activists. Chaffetz is actually a member of the Romney “Truth Squad” that goes around harassing Newt Gingrich everywhere he speaks. Chaffetz claims Romney is a fiscal conservative and that due to his budget cuts in Massachusetts, tea partiers “love” him. But Chaffetz also loves Romney’s money since he received almost

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To: SoConPubbie

The fatal mistake made here was in the assumption that there is one, or even two or three, leaders of the Tea Party....

I don’t give a damn about any formal “Tea Party”...to me, the Tea Party is a sentiment against current government - not a PAC, or a formal party, or an organization that is coalesced around some individual poser power-hungry opportunist.

We will vote - we will vote against RINOS, we will vote against Democrats, and we will vote against any form of appeasement or opportunist establishment.

I ‘trash’ bin every so-called Tea Party email I receive..


21 posted on 04/14/2012 12:03:30 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SoConPubbie

Thanks for the reminder.

Romney and his friends have bought much of the Tea Party and virtually all of the national “conservative” organizations people are familiar with.

Folks need to also realize that almost all of the so-called “Tea Party” congress-critters supported one plan or another to raise the debt ceiling by two and one half TRILLION dollars, just like John Boehner told them to do.

The vacuum of principled leadership in the formerly grand old party is almost total.

So, new leaders are going to have to be raised up from regular folks.

Can’t start too soon.


22 posted on 04/14/2012 12:03:50 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (You can be a Romney Republican or you can be a conservative. You can't be both. Pick one.)
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To: jennings2004
However, Mr. Hamilton, in his wildest imagination, could never have anticipated the advent of this “Dear Leader!”

He just had gotten through putting it all on the line; his life, his family's life, his fortune, and his reputation against a tyrannical government.

I think he was fully aware of what could happen in the future.

That's why they designed a government of the people, by the people, and of the people whose focus was protecting individual liberaty.
23 posted on 04/14/2012 12:20:32 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; jennings2004
However, Mr. Hamilton, in his wildest imagination, could never have anticipated the advent of this “Dear Leader!”

That's why they designed a government of the people, by the people, and of the people whose focus was protecting individual liberaty.

No more excuses for that treacherous, back-stabbing, lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Romney.

Not Obama is the Anti-Christ.

Not the world will end tomorrow if Obama is re-elected.

Not he was the Governor of an extremely left-wing state, he had no choice but to go along.

Not look what he is saying now and ignoring his actual record.

NO MAS!
24 posted on 04/14/2012 12:24:44 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: broken_arrow1

The GOPe probably had best polling that showed nobama was going down big-time and knowing “some” Repub was going to win, they wanted to hold their grip on the moeny. They knew that Sarah or Newt or Rick was not likely to tow their line and may instead upset the money cart.

Who better to keep them connected to the money than Romney?
Patriotism is one thing, that makes GOP slightly better than the left, but like most everything else, its all about the money.

They still have not locked down the nomination sure thing, someone like Newt or Sarah could still prevent a Mitt slamdunk. We should not give up.


25 posted on 04/14/2012 2:02:18 PM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: broken_arrow1

The GOPe probably had best polling that showed nobama was going down big-time and knowing “some” Repub was going to win, they wanted to hold their grip on the money. They knew that Sarah or Newt or Rick was not likely to tow their line and may instead upset the money cart.
Who better to connect them to the money than Romney?

They still have not locked down the nomination sure thing, someone like Newt or Sarah could still prevent a Mitt slamdunk.


26 posted on 04/14/2012 2:07:27 PM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: SoConPubbie
Not he was the Governor of an extremely left-wing state, he had no choice but to go along.

Notice that when Allen West and Newt were shifted into liberal districts by their enemies, they moved so they could run in a conservative district. They moved their bodies so they could help the conservative movement, they didn't move their policies so that they could hold onto power. That's what a real conservative does. Mitt ain't one of them and he ain't one of us.

27 posted on 04/14/2012 2:27:51 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: SoConPubbie


"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures."
- Alexander Hamilton


Great quote!
28 posted on 04/14/2012 2:33:43 PM PDT by khelus
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To: X-spurt
The GOPe probably had best polling that showed nobama was going down big-time and knowing “some” Repub was going to win, they wanted to hold their grip on the moeny. They knew that Sarah or Newt or Rick was not likely to tow their line and may instead upset the money cart.

OK. So the big money people are banking on Mitt. Why did the little people vote for Mitt and not the others?

Did the big money people fool the little people? How?

29 posted on 04/14/2012 4:43:21 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Did the big money people fool the little people? How?

Scare tactics and negative ads do wonders for affecting the sheeple. Open primaries finish it.

30 posted on 04/14/2012 4:45:34 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

You must have been sleeping through all the slime attacks by your friend in the Primaries. With Mitt milluiions, Mitt’s PAC, GOPe, FNC and a herd of pretend conservative talking heads bashing everyone except Mitt day and night, it fooled enough, but NOT ENOUGH YET.


31 posted on 04/14/2012 4:58:12 PM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: SoConPubbie

Oh really? Moonbeam the same as Romney?


32 posted on 04/15/2012 12:05:02 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: SoConPubbie

So are you going to vote for Zero? Just wondering?


33 posted on 04/15/2012 12:06:42 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
OK. So the big money people are banking on Mitt. Why did the little people vote for Mitt and not the others?

Sorry, but you are wrong. Even with the lack of money that both Rick and Newt struggled with, Mitt has only garnered 41%, on average, of the vote.

The little people, the grassroots, the base, have not voted for that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal.
34 posted on 04/15/2012 12:20:22 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: tallyhoe
So are you going to vote for Zero? Just wondering?

Are you voting for that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Romney?
35 posted on 04/15/2012 12:21:39 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: tallyhoe
Oh really? Moonbeam the same as Romney?

Well, let's see:

Brown is a socialist, more or less.

Romney has this record to recommend himself to conservatives:



Can you see the similiarities?

I sure can.

36 posted on 04/15/2012 12:23:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
Sorry, but you are wrong. Even with the lack of money that both Rick and Newt struggled with, Mitt has only garnered 41%, on average, of the vote.

The little people, the grassroots, the base, have not voted for that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal.

Primary Tracker

Delegate count so far: Romney, 664; Santorum, 285; Gingrich, 136; Paul, 51, Huntsman, 1 out of a total of 1137 cast to date. Romney has 664/1137 x 100 = 58.4 percent which is about the complement of your 41 percent. You need serious work on your math skills. If you can't understand the simple objective facts, an opinion about the more subjective speculations is highly suspect.

It's a mystery to many why Romney has done so well given the animus from sites such as Free Republic and other detractors of Mormons and Rinos. Republicans had a broad field of candidates. They had ample opportunities to see them talk. Romney certainly was not a champion of the Tea Party. The big money backers are only a tiny number of voters. So why is he winning? I suspect he appeals to the Republican electorate for two reasons. He has a strong image as a family man. He has business ken. these are two reasons he is way ahead of the others. The bigger question is will these two reasons matter much in November

37 posted on 04/15/2012 8:58:38 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: SoConPubbie

I will vote for anyone other than the Leftist Socialist Communist that is in the White House now! A none vote or a third party vote is like voting for Zero. We can not afford another 4 years of this A Hole in the WH. The next four years will be hell if he is re-elected. He already goes around congress......


38 posted on 04/15/2012 10:28:22 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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