The tea party hits a wall
Posted by Laura (Ingraham)
In 2010 the tea party showed impressive strength with its anti-establishment, anti-big spending message. Senators and congressmen who pledged allegiance to those aims rode into power and for at a least a millisecond, the GOP establishment was worried. But Mitt Romney’s $15 million masterful takedown of Newt Gingrich, shows that tea party cred can only get you so far. Gingrich rode to victory in South Carolina with solid tea party support but even tea partiers with reservations about Romney abandoned him in Florida. One major lesson of this campaign stands out— without organization, money, and a sophisticated media strategy, the tea party will enjoy only sporadic political success. They may be able to win a House seat in North Carolina but winning a presidential primary requires a breadth of support and financing that tea party groups have thus far been unable to muster.
Of course if Mitt Romney is the nominee yet fails to beat Barack Obama in November, conservatives will undoubtedly say—”see, I told you we needed a real conservative!” But such solace will be fleeting when traditional conservatives find themselves back in the same position when the establishment rises up for another Bush White House run. Almost one-in-four GOP primary voters wished another candidate was running this time, but so what? Come August Mitt Romney will likely be back in Tampa to rally GOP supporters and skeptics. Even after all this acrimony, by then they will be united in a singular goal: defeating President Obama. And that’s what the tea party wants, right?
hardly sounds like shilling to me. sounds like she’s just stating what she perceives to be the pragmatic truth of the situation. sounds like she’s speaking through some spit-up in her mouth actually, like this prospect gags her, but she sees it as reality.
Come August Mitt Romney will likely be back in Tampa to rally GOP supporters and skeptics. Even after all this acrimony, by then they will be united in a singular goal: defeating President Obama. And that’s what the tea party wants, right?
Yes, Laura, the Tea Party does want to defeat Obama. But it's not because he's "Obama." It's because he's a gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, pro-homosexualist, statism-loving socialist! That's why!
So to defeat this, are you really suggesting that the Tea Party embrace another gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, pro-homosexualist, statism-loving socialist?
Seriously, is this what the GOP Elite is pushing?
If it is, the GOP Elite can shove it!