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Vanity: If Mitt Romney "purchased" the Tea Party Movement
Sept 13, 2009 | yongin

Posted on 09/13/2009 6:35:38 AM PDT by yongin

Yesterday's 9-12 Project and the local Tea Party rallies were roaring successes. The Tea Parties are much more effective at voicing opposition to Obama's policies than the hapless GOP leadership in Congress. With the success of the Tea Parties, it will be only a matter of time before GOP politicians and especially potential 2012 candidates to attempt to make the Tea Parties as their own. Mitt Romney is a man who might try to "buy" the Tea Party movement. With his vast wealth, Romney could open his wallet and fund Tea Party rallies across the country until 2012. Under such a scenerio, the Tea Party organizers wouldn't have to worry about raising money for rallies.

Big Questions: If Romney gave generous donations to the Tea Party movement, does this entitle him to conservative support?


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To: yongin

Mitt is a Massachusetts Yankee. He is therefore not a viable candidate regardless of how he spends his money.

Being governor of a Loyalist state is proof enough he is damaged goods.

(Loyalists are those who preferred the King and still look to Europe as a model. They live here but should not be counted as Americans)


21 posted on 09/13/2009 6:54:18 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Quotes of the century: 2001 "Lets Roll"..... 2009 "You Lie")
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To: yongin

Screw That! He’s not purchasing me (or anyone I know), and I am on the BoD of a local Indiana Tea Party. (I think I speak for quite a few others as well..)


22 posted on 09/13/2009 7:02:00 AM PDT by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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To: Frantzie

add Lugar-IN.


23 posted on 09/13/2009 7:03:39 AM PDT by JSDude1 (www.wethepeopleindiana.org (Tea Party Member-Proud), www.travishankins.com (R- IN 09 2010!))
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To: yongin

No way. Romney has not a single value in common with those of the Tea Party folks. He’s so statist I think he’s even moved beyond RINO.


24 posted on 09/13/2009 7:12:17 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

He’s a Mittocrat.


25 posted on 09/13/2009 7:26:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: yongin

If Romney “bought” the Tea Party movement, the movement would quickly breakdown. Everything Romney touches withers and dies.


26 posted on 09/13/2009 7:28:45 AM PDT by DanZanRyu
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To: yongin
I was at an impromptu 'rally' yesterday, the object of which was to line a highway between two points with as many flags, signs, and people as possible on short notice. It was a beautiful thing to see. the response from passing traffic was almost 100% enthusiastic. You can't even organize, let alone 'purchase' something like that. Purge those nasty thoughts from your mind.:-)
27 posted on 09/13/2009 7:32:56 AM PDT by Seven plus One
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To: yongin

“Big Questions: If Romney gave generous donations to the Tea Party movement, does this entitle him to conservative support?

... making donations does not make Romney a conservative.

This is exactly the path he has followed for years. He is
still a chameleon rino...


28 posted on 09/13/2009 7:33:12 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: yongin

Every day I read another ‘I hate Romney’ post here on FR.

Why? Is it his religion? Why is everybody so angry/afraid of him?


29 posted on 09/13/2009 7:37:05 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: yongin

NO.


30 posted on 09/13/2009 7:37:59 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
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To: yongin

Fortunately the Tea Party is way too local and regional to be claimed by any one person.


31 posted on 09/13/2009 7:38:48 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
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To: Frantzie

Exactly, he could have been “somebody”; and, the Huckster, too, but he chose to reinforce McCrazy. Palin’s the one IMHO-she’s one of us.


32 posted on 09/13/2009 7:38:56 AM PDT by izzatzo
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To: OCCASparky

to bad the state he governed is going bankrupt because of his health insurance policy


33 posted on 09/13/2009 7:41:29 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: ladyjane
Why is everybody so angry/afraid of him?

Two reasons that combine to create anger:

1. He is not a conservative, he is a moderate at best (AKA he is a RINO)

2. FR is infested with sycophantic trolls who lack conservative core values claiming he is a conservative.

Combine the two together and you get vocally angry conservatives.

34 posted on 09/13/2009 7:41:30 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: ladyjane

Because he’s a lying bottom feeding liberal.


35 posted on 09/13/2009 7:42:23 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: ladyjane
...and one more thing

Is it his religion?

This is the same crap the liberals pull when anyone criticizes nObama...automatically its racists. I am so sick of hearing that criticism of Romney is anti-Mormon. That is such liberal horse hockey.

36 posted on 09/13/2009 7:44:55 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: yongin

No. And you know better than this, dude!


37 posted on 09/13/2009 7:46:18 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: ladyjane

For one, MittCare.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2322014/posts

Bay State health insurance premiums highest in country (Rein in health costs, Massachusetts urged)
Boston Globe ^ | 8/22/09 | Kay Lazar


38 posted on 09/13/2009 7:46:59 AM PDT by maggief (He had a dream. We got a nightmare!)
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To: big'ol_freeper
This is the same crap the liberals pull when anyone criticizes nObama...automatically its racists.

Yeah I thought the same thing. Beck is a Mormon and is very popular with FReepers.
39 posted on 09/13/2009 7:51:50 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: yongin

The best way to kill a movement is to take away its autonomy.


40 posted on 09/13/2009 7:52:48 AM PDT by billhilly
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