/sarc
Posted on 08/05/2012 4:48:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz, who rode a tea party wave to win the Texas Republican Senate nomination last week, said Sunday the movement will “overwhelmingly” support Mitt Romney in the November presidential election.
Mr. Cruz said tea party activists will rally in defense of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee because they’re “energized” to defeat President Obama.
“I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea party activists, and I have yet to met a single tea party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney and work hard for him,” Mr. Cruz said on Fox News Sunday.
“Our country is in crisis, and we’ve got to stop this Obama agenda if we’re going to preserve opportunity for our kids and grandkids.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I believe that is a true statement from the people who I have talked with. The radicals here on FR won’t.
This is going to be fun! That’s my comment.
Just when I thought I was gonna like the guy he goes and says something really stupid.
We can worry about Romney later.
One would think that if this was true, there would be no need to tell people about it. I got an email from one of the local tea party’s, actually, around here in TX. The email was essentially one big long rant about “unifying” behind Mitt Romney and how we all need to support him. My impression, naturally, is that she wrote that to us since “unity” isn’t that easy for a guy we all know is scum of the Earth.
/sarc
The bustards have got me all worked up. Every word out of Obama mouth is like the stuff that came out of Linda Blair’s mouth. I expect to see his head spinning any time now.
Cruz is already getting carried away with himself.
I think this is a very smart thing for Cruz to say, and it shows tremendous leadership qualities. It’s the Brietbart thing to say (see tagline). If the Tea Party is to take the reins of govt, and lead the way, it will have to take the rein of Romney and lead the way for him too. Clearly, we know Romney is NOT a conservative, and is NOT a Tea Party kind of guy, but the up and coming movers and shakers have to somehow get a grip on the GOP-E, and then, taking a word back from the left, transform it/them.
Are you including the owner of this site in your assessment?
I agree
He should say "vote for Virgil Goode, because nothing says Dem win like a Clintonian plurality"
The right political thing to say. Shows good political sense.
Romney can get the Tea Party vote if he wants it. Hasn’t shown nuch desire for it so far.
Helping Tea Party candidates will be the biggest thing he can do.
Willard is getting fatter...
Christie would be a good VP for him...
TweedleDee and TweedleDum...
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You may be right...and I love your optimism. As a conservative I’ve been “played” every election cycle, which is understandable as an admitted member of an extreme minority. I’m old enough now to know the destructiveness of holding your nose at election time. Take High Speed Rail or the freight train, they both get you to the same destination.
I always wondered what those Paulbots would do when they had to admit he didn’t have a chance. Well, it’s not pretty. Watch as they enlighten us how supporting Obama is the conservative to do. In 3, 2, 1...
Here's a picture of a "commie libtard RINO", Romney, taken yesterday in Indiana. - Fixed it for you.
Not only do they not have a clue...they don't even suspect nothin'.
Don't believe everything you "hear". That burning in your bosom is not the eternal truth..... It's just indigestion.
No, not really. But When my choices are between a bucket of warm urine and a bucket of cold urine; I guess I have to take the bucket of piss and just remember to dump it as soon as possible for something better. I really wish I had got Jack qualified for the ballot. Jack is my good old boy Black Lab; trust worthy, alert, never lies to me or anyone else and is a whole lot smarter and more honorable than any of these pieces of crap we get to choose from.
They are behind Romney because he’s not Obama. See my tagline.
Are you including the owner of this site in your assessment?
Why not?
JR is every bit as irrational about Romney as pissant was about Sarah Palin.
I'm a Catholic, that's irrational, you cannot reason your way to Jesus Christ.
You radicals that hate Romney are irrational, but that's your belief and you have every right to be wrong.
Mr. Cruz said tea party activists will rally in defense of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee because they’re “energized” to defeat President Obama.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
A little premature. Myth is not yet the official nominee
of the GOP, he still has to get the nod from a majority of GOP convention delegates.
Sarah Palin NOW has a perfect record of 5/5 for endorsing winners of early Senate races. Where was Mitt while Sarah was delivering the goods? Myth didn’t help any of them.
Sarah will be at the GOP convention. I can hardly wait until Myth meets reality.Cruz will have to witness it, the tea party being “overwhelmingly” behind Myth, an unlikely occurance of vast proportions.
I am furious that I have been forced to choose between these two douche bags. This is the most disappointing election of my lifetime. The only reason I’m even going to show up to vote at all is to vote for Josh Mandel and whatever other Republicans happen to be running for office in Ohio. Romney though? no way.
Three letters: ABO
“Cruz: Tea party ‘overwhelmingly’ behind Romney”
Cruz is a gentleman.
Translation: “Tea Party is overwhelmingly ready to bury JugEars.”
Then what are you doing on America's premier conservative website? Or did you mistakenly assume that this was a Republican site?
So Jim is irrational. Nice.
actually, not voting for Romney is a perfectly rational decision for any real conservative. It’s the “anybody but Obama” people that are completely irrational.
I resemble that remark. Its ABO for 99% of conservatives and Tea Party types. There are not that many conservatives so fringey or crazy that they want 4 more years of the Obama disaster.
I believe he is right. He believes he is right. What is stupid about saying something you believe to be right? I actually find it quite refreshing from the doublespeak. No need to decipher. Do you think he is wrong, that the Tea minded will overwhelmingly support President Obama?
Egad, a TPINO!!!!
;’) Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Banquet circuit?
I'd kill to have the waistline he does, LOL
You are going to be disappointed. They will back Romney 100%. They are.....not irrational.
You may be right. If the Tea Party is overwhelmingly behind Romney then I may not be the Tea Party type that I thought I was. That’s the trouble with labels I guess.
I agree, EPU.
The Tea Party is a group of patriots who support founding American principles and values...and is anything but a PAC.
Cruz better watch what he says...because that statement doesn’t hold true for this Tea Partier.
“Sarah will be at the GOP convention.”
I doubt it. Only Catamites for Willard will be welcome at the Geriatric Old Plotters convention show.
Romney is called flip flop when he changed positions when situation call for it (like perhaps when donation would fly from him). Around here, among Freepers, such action is called ‘truce’.
He got in - now he’s pulling I want to stay in so he bows to the powers that be. He spoke to thousands and thousands is already a lie!
Sadly, Ohio is a swing state and not everyone there understands that binary means zero or one. In this case the default is zero.
You’re right, but as you said, when people believe in something,they wouldn’t want to hear anything different. It’s just a fact of life.
Is that the best you can do? Can't handle that the guy is a POS and you ate the turd cookie! But you are a known liberal here, anyway.
Hitching their wagon to a festering, moribund political party that has descended to the point where it's nothing more than a pale "me too" to the statist Democrat Party. The "Taxed Enough Already" movement will likewise be disappointed to discover that the Gelded Old Party likes taxes too - just a little bit less.
I’m really tired of those on FR that are content to cut off our collective noses to spite their face.
You know what? Fine. Split from the Republican Party.
May history forget you were ever our brothers. We will forge ahead to defeat the forces that wish our national destruction without you.
Rest assured, if we fail this November the chains of opression will weigh equally on us all. If we succeed, we will be content in knowing it was without you Sunshine Patriots.
If you really don’t understand the gravity of this election, then you are of no use to us.
There is no monolithic Tea Party platform. I’ve met all kinds of people. The one “overwhelming” theme is see America end it’s fascination with progressivism. Cry, crawl, walk, run seems to be path humans take. That’s progress. I would say the TP is well into the second stage and starting to hang on the furniture as it learns the third. The abortion didn’t work.
I don’t hate Romney, nor Obama for that matter, because as a Christian we are called to love our neighbor as ourselves. However, I hate what Obama stands for and the evilness in his motives. Romney was never my choice and I really wrestle with the concept of living with the fact that I might not vote for him - but will for the candidates with clear, concise conservative principles. I am voting as a conservative Christian - not as a Republican and until Romney convinces me that a person like me can fit in his “world” I am holding fire. But don’t accuse me of something that is not true.
Psssst! Hey! Guess what? WE'RE CONSERVATIVES, NOT REPUBLICANS! THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE SITE.
Sigh...I get tired of these Republicans who come here and assume that this is a GOP forum.
If I had to choose a label for myself it would be “strict-constructionist”...a tiny minority these days.
I guess you are voting indirectly for Ocrappy? I dislike Romney, but the choice is between Romney and ZERO. The others are there to help O win.
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