Posted on 11/04/2010 9:53:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tea Party activists are injecting into the 2012 GOP presidential primary an element of antiestablishment volatility that could hurt Mitt Romneys possible bid while benefiting a fast-growing crop of conservative candidates, political observers say.
It is wide open, former House majority leader Dick Armey, one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement, said of the potential field of candidates. In a twist of GOP tradition, the nominee could be someone Americans know little about, he said.
The defining influence electorally in America is we are tired of big-shot insiders taking care of themselves and one another, said Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks, which seeks to mobilize conservative voters.
In the most typical Republican path to the nomination, party insiders all but anoint an establishment candidate early, then primary voters confirm the candidate. Romney, who ran strongly in the 2008 primaries, has been widely portrayed as the establishment front-runner.
But that path could be thrown off course as Tea Party activists try to build upon their influence in the midterms and make further inroads into the GOP power structure, analysts say.
Romney did reach out to the Tea Party movement by donating to a number of its nominees in this years congressional elections but that was sometimes after they had defeated mainstream Republicans. Some conservative insurgents distrust him because of the Massachusetts health care plan he helped engineer while governor, although Romney has disputed assertions that the program served as a model for President Obamas national plan...
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Well then it sounds like it has to be Palin cause I don’t think you can come out of nowhere to get the Rep nomination. She has the smoothest route. I taped here speech in Orlando the Saturday or two before the election and I will post a link to it. I had to stand on a folding chair a she talked for about 35 minutes. No one can light up a room like she can and if she can start winning Caucuses and Primaries the shepple will start thinking of her as a winner.
Every single week, Gov. Palin and C. ODonnell took on Obama and the corrupt DNC.
Meanwhile, Rove attacked the GOP-election-chosen candidate.
In the end, she won independents. Repubs were led away from her
by Rove and his employer.
She would have been Senator TODAY (not January 2011)
had not backstabber Rove attacked, and attacked, and flayed.
Go Mitt. Go Mitt. Go Mitt.
Rove has made no secret of his support for Romney as McCains VP.
Unlike the TParty, Romneys Losers in 2010
Isn’t it Romney’s turn next?
I mean, we have to be fair, don’t we?
Romneycare = Dead On Arrival.
Ronald Reagan was friends with everyone.
I'm not familiar with that Reagan and Kennedy picture, but I'd bet that it's not a picture of Reagan smiling and laughing as he signs a new Democrat entitlement plan into law as it is with Romney picture.
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