Is Mitt Romney Setting Up a Tea Party 'Sister Souljah' Moment?

US News and World Report ^ | January 22, 2011 | Robert Schlesinger, Opinion Editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

What a pile of horse $#*+!! Did they make up those polls out of whole cloth or word the questions in such a way that they got the results they wanted? The "Tea Party" and Governor Sarah Palin just won the biggest mid-term upset in about 150 years!! Two months later no one likes them? Hahahahaha!

[USSR Didnt Fall]

Bush 41 supports him that means he is part of the “New World Order”, I’l take a pass.

[edpc]

“I don’t think you’re going to see a different persona than the persona that’s been there for 20 years. That would be jarring. That’s not going to happen,” Romney adviser Tom Rath tells the Globe.

You mean he'll continue to be the politically irrelevant flip-flopper he's always been...? Good to know.

[Mortrey]

Mitt Romney is a mayonnaise sandwich on white bread.

[Jim Scott]

U.S. News and World Report is full of it, as usual. They're pimping for Romney and trying to kid themselves (and their 30 or 40 subscribers) that the Tea Party doesn't really matter. Wishful thinking on the part of the left - and total BS.

[Dr. Sivana]

“I don’t think you’re going to see a different persona than the persona that’s been there for 20 years. That would be jarring. That’s not going to happen,” Romney adviser Tom Rath tells the Globe.

No ... we've seen about THREE different personae in the last eight. Roll tape from the MA Senate debates ...

And DON'T be so sure Obama won't draw a challenger. Someone's going to file. He's certainly weaker than LBJ was at this point. 2012 may have its own McCarthy.

[DaxtonBrown]

How does Romney win the general if as an establishment candidate he has PO’d the Tea Party? We aren’t playing the ‘vote for the RINO’ game any more.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[FrankR]

[marron]

By standing apart, Romney stands a chance of having the party establishment coalesce behind him.

"Stands a chance"? He is the establishment candidate, period, full stop.

So, if the conservative vote is successfully divided enough to shoo Romney in as our candidate?

The chances are that the party itself will fracture. Especially, if Romney is the candidate, and loses the election the GOP will break. What rises out of it will be larger than the rump-GOP that remains and within a couple of years the GOP will be absorbed into the DNC or simply evaporate.

And if Romney wins?

Chances are, same thing. The conservatives are in no mood for more of the same. The GOP establishment may not like them, they mainly like to farm them for their votes and then ignore them, but just try winning any election without them. I'll say this; there are about three conservative candidates I'm watching, and if they were to break with the GOP I'm out too.

[Dr. Sivana]

If unemployment is down and voter confidence is up, Obama will be very hard to beat;

Yeah, and if the Zimbabwe rate of inflation falls below 10% Mugabe could win a legitimate popular election.

They have already CONCEDED that 8% is the new normal . . . the rate it wasn't supposed to hit if we passed the stimulus.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[rintense]

And so the meme of ‘support Romney because your Tea Party pick doesn’t have a chance’ starts. Just like it did in the Nov. election. Just like Rove pushed.

[JPG]

It's easy...when you poll, poll 50% rat, 35% GOP and 15% Ind. Works like a charm every time to make Sarah look bad.

[kbennkc]

How does Romney win the general if as an establishment candidate he has PO’d the Tea Party? We aren’t playing the ‘vote for the RINO’ game any more.

Yeah we would rather have 4 more years of Obama. There is no way he could make the Tea party happy except by dropping of the face of the earth. Why should he try?

[txhurl]

Why Angle is mentoned is beyond me. An unknown came very, very close to unseating Majority Leader, and might well have if the REALLY suspicious votes were cast out.

Like all the people filling in the Senate bubble and not others on the ticket.

[Happy Rain]

The Left really has a hard on for McCain Romney while Palin scares them sick.

Makes it pretty easy to choose don't it?

[hinckley buzzard]

This comes from the second year in J-school, when they take a class in "Constructing Alternate Realities."

[TribalPrincess2U]

And then there’s his health care thing of his.

That alone would sour me on him.

[hinckley buzzard]

Why Angle is mentioned is beyond me

Simple. This screed is not about Romney, it is about Palin. Angle lost-- close doesn't count-- and they want to associate Palin as a loser in the reader's mind.