Posted on 11/09/2012 12:24:59 PM PST by Kevmo
The Tea Party Patriots declared war on the Republican establishment after moderate establishment Republican Mitt Romney's loss to President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, criticized the Republican Party for hand-picking a Beltway elite candidate who did not campaign forcefully on America's founding principles and said the "presidential loss is unequivocally on them."
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Instead, Martin lamented, "what we got was a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment wing of the Republican Party."
Martin said the Tea Party's "work begins again today" .... Establishment Republicans insisted to the conservative base that Romney -- a moderate more in line with their sensibilities than those of the cloth-coat base's -- gave the party the best chance to win a general election.
They were wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Have a pre-primary primary, that a good idea. But how many of the candidates (and supporters) would honor the results?
Thanks.
I say the RNC has a committee that decides which three candidates will run before the primaries begin. No more than three. Having 6 or 7 running is counter-productive.....Also, stop the debates...it’s stupid to have debates between members of the same party, it just provides sound bites that could be used against the eventual nominee down the road.
Sounds good. Who am I supposed to hate.
Thanks.
The TEA Party is just starting? They should have been in action since 2010.
***** “Texas has more than double the number of electoral votes than the state with the second most electoral votes that went to Romney....and we had NO say on who the nominee would be.” ********
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm (and really tick you off!)
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Whenever all of the talking heads and mouths said we should not have a third party, all they did was prolong the agony.
The Republican party is dead to me. I did not vote for one Republican candidate outside of the presidency. If they were the only candidate, I voted with a write-in vote.
Let he who would be free strike the first blow. About time. Why stay with a group that puts you down? Best to strike off on your own! Sarah Palin—lead us to the new Land.
No, we got Mitt because tea party conservatives, during the primaries, kept splitting their votes among Bachman, Newt and Santorum. Cain imploded on his own. Perry was a fool to even try
Works for me.
The primaries are the problem and they’re the main thing we can do something about.
We need to set up the process so that it favors a real conservative. Right now, the GOP has a big issue with trust. We don’t trust them, and rightly so. If they install someone we trust as chairman, they can avoid a war. I doubt they’ll do it. I can only think of a few people I would trust anyways, Sarah being one of them. Duncan Hunter. Tom McClintock. Real conservatives.
The entire GOP primary system is interntionally rigged by the GOPe. Until and unless that gets fixed nothing good will happen for us.
I just pulled from the web a recorded lecture at a CA Tea Party meeting by Viscount Monckton. Monckton was describing his analysis of why the birth certificate presented by Obama enablers (undoubtedly with Obama’s direction) was a contrived/manufactured document. His analysis was based on Sheriff Arpaio’s findings as well as his own professional analysts.I see where Monckton has now prepared an ‘Affidavit’ about Obama’s public birth certificate that includes some further analysis that it is a fraud and he is prepared to go to court with his ‘Affidavit’. It seems he should be getting with Orly Taitz who will be making very similar arguments to a court in Jackson MS on Nov. 16. His presence as a world known personage would/should cause a stirring like he did with Gore’s earth warming. Who knows what might come up at the electoral vote presentation in December if one Representative and one Senator has the fortitude and patriotism to object to the receiving of the electoral ballots based on a question of eligibility. Somethings as as Ripley used to say are ‘stranger than fiction’.
So are you going to tell someone they can’t run? That won’t work. Remember, we’re talking about Republicans here and they all have their own opinions and they’re not about to follow any leader if they don’t want to.
They need to enter the GOP primary with a single, solid conservative candidate to back. And they need to know ahead of time what skeletons are dancing in the closet.
That's what the left/moderate wing of the party does every time, and we get Bush/Dole/Bush/McCain/Romney/Bush as our candidate.
Oh, brother. Who was their golden candidate last time around? Tea Party spokespeople were all over the map on who to choose.
All of this was said months ago, here and elsewhere. We still ended up with Romney. This article represents the the first installment of the latest soap opera bullsh!t leading us to the same type of milktoast candidate in 2016.
why couldn’t they re-elect all their Tea Party candidates from 2010 if they are so powerful?
Could it be that Reps need all their voters in order to win?
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