Posted on 12/16/2011 1:51:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The tea party is still pining for Sarah Palin.
The grassroots conservative movement has yet to throw its support behind a Republican presidential candidate because we dont have the female Ronald Reagan running and thats Sarah Palin, said Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express.
We havent engaged in presidential politics yet because the movement hasnt coalesced around anybody, so were just sitting back and waiting, Kremer added.
Predicting that a good slice of the countrys conservatives will not make up their minds until they are standing in front of the ballot box, Kremer singled out the former Alaska governor as the only person out there right now that can truly excite the base.
Certainly some candidates bring their own energy and excitement. Michele Bachmann had it early on when she won the [Iowa] straw poll, and then when Perry got in, she said. But theres no one that is electrifying as Sarah Palin.
Kremer is the leader of one of many tea party groups. But while she is far from being the authoritative voice of the movement, she suggested a sense of ambivalence and frustration is widespread among conservatives....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Since Nikki Haley and Christine O’Donnell, two TEA Party darlings have both endorsed Mitt Romney, and according to Michelle Bachmann, Newt is buying off TEA Party support, I would say the TEA PArty is now defunct as a political force. The term has no meaning anymore.
no joke. Spell check would have worked .
It’s the truth! Politico at least is speaking the truth! There’s a void for sure
Don’t worry. We’re here. You’ll feel us on November 6th of next year.
Funny, I don’t feel sidelined....
I don’t think Sarah’s absence has sidelined the Tea Party. But it has pretty much sidelined me. The more I see of the candidates, the less I feel like voting for any of them.
Rick Santorum may be the best of the bunch, but I don’t know if he has the fire in the belly needed to bet back into office after Rove and Bush pushed him to endorse Snarlin’ Arlen.
And the Tea Party certainly has lost a voice that the media found impossible to ignore.
We’ll be the ones voting for the undercard with a hell of a lot more fervor than voting for President.
I read some of this only to be reminded by doing so that I have to go clean out the corrals. Buh Bye, Be back later.
endorsing Mitt is resigning from the Tea Party not the end of it.
The 2012 Tea Party landslides that will outdo the historical 2010 landslides may just end the Democrat and RINO GOP establishment delusions of Godhood...
...at least I hope so.
Dont worry. Were here. Youll feel us on November 6th of next year.
If the libs want to thumbsuck themselves unskeered by concentrating on so-called TEA party leaders, let ‘em go
right ahead.
The monsters are still in the closet! Mwuahahah
All that energy and excitement of the Tea Party movement was just waiting to be let loose on kicking out Obama. But after the mid-terms, the whole GOP establishment, the Karl Roves, the dreary GOP House leadership, the FoxNews talking-heads, all worked together to pour cold water onto all that grassroots vigor, just to help grease the skids for their beloved boy Romney. They subtlely and not-so-subtlely trashed the Tea Party and Palin all year long. I’ve grown to despise these bastards with a white-hot passion. If they think they can depend on my lifelong pattern of exclusively voting for the GOP candidate to continue next year as if nothing happened, well, they can just shove Romney up their damned posterior!
Tea Party to Back Any GOP Nominee Including Romney [according to self-appointed tea party "leader"]
MJ Lee is dreaming. It’s what keeps him from having nightmares.
Is she bipolar?
The Left has a big projection problem. Since their organizations, such as the unions, Occupy Wall Street, ACORN, Int’l ANSWER, the Van Jones people, etc. are astroturf and take orders from a central authority, they think the Tea Party movement must be similar. It isn’t, so their predictions and comments are out of kilter.
Could not agree more. If we thought we would drain the swamp in 2010 in a single election, we were dreaming. It’s going to take years but the sad part is that this is the election we need the most conservative President we can elect.
Ain't that the truth.
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