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."

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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.

[Leep]

If it wasn’t for people like Romney and Obama the Tea Party might not exist.

[glock rocks]

Dede Scozzafava

How special. I'll raise you:

Arlen Specter.

Bebe Netanyahu.

Joseph Smith.

Hey, how about that Bill Ayers?

Pick a team. I pick Ronald Reagan. Now, carry on:

Iran Contra! Amnesty! Drugs to Mena!

No one can pass that test,
except for maybe the return MSM-purified messiah, the Kenyan.

You bought it, you feed it.

</reality check>

[cripplecreek]

You bought it, you feed it.

Actually I didn't bring it I just left it out there for the Mittbot trying to take Santorum down.

[Earthdweller]

I'll back your bet and throw in this uncovered Santorum endorsement of Romney ...for the win Alex.

[M-cubed]

Dede Scozzafava <<

Kinda ironic isn't it......ol’ Newt went for “electable” over “conservative principles”....

[upchuck]

Romney wouldn’t know the Tea Party if we collectively bit him in the butt. What a socialist moron.

[SaraJohnson]

And here I thought Mittens did not want anything to do with the fly over country riff raff. ;)

[Outlaw Woman]

So freakin what. Gingrich endorsed scuzzy butt in NY.

THERE IS NO PERFECT CANDIDATE! CAN WE PLEASE ATTACK ROMNEY AND OBAMA EXCLUSIVELY?

[Earthdweller]

Yo..grease those palms,
grease those palms,
singing bump,bump,bump-bump,bump...
This is how they do it now.
Bump, bump, bump-bump, bump.

( I'd laugh but it's really not funny)

[TheOldLady]

Click the Smoke       Thank you, JoeProBono

He's cute and tiny
But they grow up so fast

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