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There isn’t one ‘tea party’. There’s hundreds of them.

Ryan and DeMint are politicians. They are better than some, but they are still politicians. Most of the conservatives who are backing Romney are doing so because they think he can win, because that’s what the consultants are telling them.

Obviously, you don't know politics as much as you think you do.

I happen to be very close friends with a Minnesota Representative who belongs to the Conservative wing. I speak with him every week and he is well aware of the sentiments coming from the Conservative Base.

Oddly enough, the radical fringe rantings coming from this thread do not fully represent the base overall. Most of them are rather respectful, level headed, logical thinkers who resemble Newt Gingrich.

I have asked him countless times, as to why Congress votes the way they do. His reply is always;

[ “How long do you think any of us would be able to stay in office, if we were to always cater to the extreme fringe who represents less than 10% of the population?”]

Change the thinking of the population first, before you can have the perfect conservative world you dream of.

There isn’t one ‘tea party’. There’s hundreds of them.

Ryan and DeMint are politicians. They are better than some, but they are still politicians. Most of the conservatives who are backing Romney are doing so because they think he can win, because that’s what the consultants are telling them.

Looks like Paul Ryan isn't above changing the rules or telling a nontruth when it suits his fashion:

UPDATE: Ryan's aides had told reporters on Capitol Hill that his position as president of the RNC presidential trust, a sum of $21 million that the committee turns over to the nominee, had meant he couldn't endorse in the primary, making this a bit of a shift.

What is clear is that Romney's team is hoping for a win in Wisconsin that, whatever the margin, they can use to declare victory — and the primary over — in the hope of depressing Santorum's numbers in his home state. Santorum's aides have said he plans to keep fighting, that a number of May contests favor him. But if he truly faces the chance of losing Pennsylvania — and a poll this past week showed the race statistically tied between him and Romney there — Santorum could end up with a tough choice to make about his future.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/ryan-for-romney-119133.html