Did the Tea Party Miss it's Chance in the GOP Primary?

Red County ^ | January 16, 2012 | Matthew Burke

[SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny]

I am appalled, dumbfounded, and discouraged to see pseudo-conservative candidates getting votes from those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement, in the early GOP presidential primaries.

[Jukeman]

The GOP primaries are not over but I have this feeling of dejavu all over again. It just makes me absolutely livid that it is likely the idiots voting in the GOP primaries are going to continue down the path of self destruction. Another moderate is going to end up as the GOP presidential for 2012. Well, I should not be surprised but there are still the majority of states to go. However, after watching the GOP Forum Saturday evening, I came away with a feeling of despair because it was an indication that the majority of people in this country want a nanny sate government or even worse a Marixist state.

[tallyhoe]

So I’m suppose to jump off the cliff with Ron Paul? The one that he is two bricks short of a load?

[ex-snook]

For some reason Conservatives decided to sit this one out and left it to the self-selected candidates. But then again everyone is a conservative, no one is a Republican. So what difference does it make? “We are all Bain capitalists now.” Walmart creates a lot of jobs. FUBAR.

[Psalm 144]

Yours for the win.

[null and void]

No. Ron Paul definitely has a full load...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Its sad. My Number One issue this campaign is cutting spending. Nothing else. I supported Perry but he self-destructed. Now the candidate who is best on my major issue is Ron Paul, who is such a nut on so many other issues that I can’t support him. Romney, Santorum and Gingrich all, to one extent or another, have a love affair with Big Government. Gingrich is the best out of that lot on spending but is such a nasty loose cannon and is off-putting on other issues. There is no credible candidate on cutting spending this time around.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the idiots voting in the GOP primaries are going to continue down the path of self destruction

So exactly, where has there been a "GOP primary"?

[Jukeman]

Good point.

[Repeal The 17th]

The Republicans have allocated 2,286 Delegates.
A candidate must secure 1,144 to win the party nomination.
Current Delegate Count:
Romney 13
Paul 9
Santorum 6
Gingrich 4
Perry 3
Huntsman 2
Uncommitted 3
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January 03 Iowa Caucus 28 Delegates
January 10 New Hampshire Primary 12 Delegates
January 21 South Carolina Primary 25 Delegates
January 31 Florida Primary 50 Delegates
February 4 Nevada Caucus 28 Delegates
February 4 Maine Caucus 24 Delegates
February 7 Colorado Caucus 36 Delegates
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[ROCKLOBSTER]

It looks like the states with closed primaries are:

Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota.

These states:

Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nevada and Wyoming...have closed primaries.

Why the TEA parties or conservative Republicans didn’t act to get more closed primaries by now is way beyond me.

[patriot preacher]

If the moron who wrote this at “Red Country” believes the Tea Party is in favor of national suicide by giving Ron Paul and his ilk control of our national security and foreign policy, he is sadly mistaken. Most of the Tea Party folks I know prefer to remain ALIVE and on guard against such dangers as the Islamofascists in Iran and terrorist al-Qaeda, and against the resurgent Marxists around the world - even in our own nation. Paul’s “if we don’t bother them they won’t bother us” nonsense will assure devastating attacks and inevitable disasters.Ron Paul is no Tea Partier — and no Conservative. And those who support him are foreign to those ideals as well....

[GourmetDan]

I always stop reading at the first ‘ilk’...

[Shery]

The tea party id over because we didn’t get behind Ron Paul? Is this guy crazy? I don’t support Ron Paul because of Ron Paul. He has done little in all his years in Congress to advance conservative ideas. He has voted NO against all of them, mostly and is proud of it. he joins the left and Soros-backed groups to make policy that only leftists could love. What about this is something a tea party conservative would love?

[patlin]

Do the math, count the voting records of those promoted by and subsequently elected to office in 2010 by the those who call themselves ‘tea party members’ and then ask yourself...what's the difference? Have you gained freedom from the oppressive govt or have the elected ones voted to further oppress the citizenry. Discernment is a virtue given to man by God. Those who put their trust in man, rather than letting God lead them down the true path in order to discern the wolves from the sheep, are more oft likely to be led over the cliff. Israel wanted a king just like all the other nations, but because they refused the discernment of God, God gave them an oppressor. Yes, there truly is nothing new under the sun, just repetition due to man's lack of true discernment.

The Constitution is our nation's foundation stone. The foundation stone of the Constitution is the Bible aka GOD. The tea party has continually at times rebuked both in one way or another by not adopting both the above as a whole and by ignoring critical articles therein that do not suit their cause lest they be labeled ‘suspected and odious”.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/washpap.asp

[patlin]

The Tea Party 'tea parties' jumped the shark a loooong time ago

pardon the loose interp, your reply has been noted and corrected to state more clearly my current opinion of the 'tea parties'

[newzjunkey]

In politics, like too many areas of life, perception is reality. Romney's the guy because people believe he's the guy.

SC is the last hope of unifying anti-Romney effort. I expect Perry will fold his tent next; if we're lucky, there will be just three total candidates heading to FL.

Money is drying up quickly for others; those candidates will continue to fall by the wayside and endorse the inevitable whether explicitly like TPaw and Huntsman or implicitly like Bachmann and Cain.

Bachmann and Cain had their opportunities to take a stand against Romney. They failed to step forward for someone else so they're in the tank for Mitt.

Truth told, I'd much prefer Perry or Newt as the third with Mitt and Paul heading into FL. For me, a choice between two statists (one spineless, the other a theocrat) and a libertarian radical is no choice at all.

Whoever first added the keyword "worstprimaryever" to those stories has it pegged.

[patlin]

You're going to have to define what you mean by conservative ideas. If you mean constitutionally bound conservative ideas, then you would be wrong about RP. If you mean conservative ideas that are outside the boundaries of the articles of the constitution as currently promoted by the tea party elites nationwide, then RP is not the candidate for tea party members.

FYI..Constitutional conservative & just plain conservative are not one in the same. Never have been and bever will be.

[LZ_Bayonet]

I'm the Tea Party Leader, and I'm not worried...because Milton Friedman is right:

"People have a great misconception in this way, they think way they solve things by electing the right people. Its nice to elect the right people, but that isn’t the way you solve them. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things!" [FR Romney dislikers take heart!]

http://prudentinvestornewsletters.blogspot.com/2009/10/milton-friedman-why-electing-right.html

[tallyhoe]

Ron Paul is full of it all right! His elevator don’t go to all the floors! Debate tonight 0% income tax? Really?

[TexasCajun]

Romney's the guy because people believe he's the guy.

That's enough for me.

As Newsweek suggest, I must be stupid not to realize Mutt's they guy. ... because people believe he's the guy.

Your screen-name says it all, you watch, listen & believe the MSM People way too much.