Posted on 01/09/2012 1:44:27 PM PST by Syncro
There is more at the link, click the titleBy KENNETH P. VOGEL | 1/9/12 4:32 AM EST Updated: 1/9/12 3:11 PM EST
New Hampshire might seem like ground zero for a tea party offensive.
But ahead of the Republican primary Tuesday, there’s no sign that the populist conservative movement is poised to shape the presidential results in the “Live Free or Die” state — or anywhere else, for that matter.
Instead, activists in the Granite State have divided their loyalties — and even seem resigned to seeing their sworn enemy Mitt Romney win his second straight victory.
The situation in New Hampshire and across the country has left some tea party organizers worried that their young movement’s foray into presidential politics could dilute its brand, disappoint its members or simply prove they were not quite ready for the big leagues.
“The tea party has not been around long enough to have a real impact on presidential politics because it hasn’t developed the mechanism to reach national agreements to back a candidate,” said Ned Ryun, president of a nonprofit group called American Majority that trains local activists in political organizing.
The small government movement had high hopes for 2012 after helping power Republicans to landslide wins in the 2010 midterm elections only a year and a half after exploding onto the scene in opposition to President Barack Obama’s agenda.
But Ryun said the movement’s “highly individualistic, decentralized” nature might be better suited to local, state or congressional campaigns. “It’s like herding cats,” he said. “It just doesn’t move cohesively as one unit yet, and who knows if it ever will. Maybe by 2016.”
Wish in one hand, crap in the other, Politico....and see whatcha got........
Newt and Santorum are big government and Mitt is tied to Wall Stret.
It is so sweet of Politico to care.... But the Tea Party is alive and well all over the country, thank you. If it weren’t, Romney would have been crowned as the nominee weeks ago.
Eventually, we’ll sort out the candidates and when we do, they will have been so thoroughly vetted that the Democrat machine will seem like child’s play.
I think you mean it has 4 electoral votes.
The ineligible, lying, backstabbing RINO:
“I bet you $10,000 that Karl Rove and I prove
that ALL YOU conservatives --and what we think are your stupid principles--
are now as irrelevant as the third moon of Kolob.”
Yee Haw! :) bttt
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