Vanity: If Mitt Romney "purchased" the Tea Party Movement

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?

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

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Are you kidding?

No! Romney is not "entitled" to anything!

I’m sure Romney can afford to have lots of tea parties, and probably has attended many of them, he looks like an Earl Grey man. Surely you’re not talking about Tea Party.

I don’t recall reading anywhere that anyone at the Tea Party expressed any interest in Romney. Palin and Wilson were the most discussed politicians there, and there were plenty of Palin signs and buttons.

"I am so sick of hearing that criticism of Romney is anti-Mormon. That is such liberal horse hockey."

Not completely. There are many reasons why Romney should never be the Republican Nominee, but the fact that he's a mormon non-Christian in a Nation filled predominently by Christians is another major reason why he needs to remove himself from anything to do with politics.

——There are many reasons why Romney should never be the Republican Nominee, but the fact that he’s a mormon non-Christian in a Nation filled predominently by Christians is another major reason why he needs to remove himself from anything to do with politics.-—

I’m strongly anti-Romney, and have been for ages, but this statement is just WRONG. There are many reasons I won’t ever vote for Romney, based on things he’s said and done, but I seem to remember that freedom of religion is something that’s been a part of the bill of rights since...oh, the first amendment!

Romney may be "quiet", hiding under his rock in La Jolla,
safe from criticism of his previous voters, burdened
with RomneyCARE taxes and their death panels.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

bert: "Mitt is a Massachusetts Yankee. "

Like pRES_ _ ENT Obama is a natural born American.

Now that is funny.

Mitt Romney's dad was born in Mexico.

Are all Mexicans now "Massachusetts Yankees" to you RomneyBOTs?

"There are many reasons I won’t ever vote for Romney, based on things he’s said and done, but I seem to remember that freedom of religion is something that’s been a part of the bill of rights since...oh, the first amendment!

Indeed, "Freedom of Religion" is a wonderful clause. However, it was written long before Joe Smith and the mormon religion, and it doesn't say anything about calling oneself "Christian", when - as mormons do - when they are not "Christians" in the slightest.

No.

What would he be ‘funding’?

We can drive by ourselves, stand by ourselves, make posters by ourselves.

We, each, have the money.

We don’t need a limpwrist, weekneed, mealy mouth, flip flopping, finger to the wind marginalist. So, therefore, Mitt’s out.

It says freedom of religion. The clause doesn’t say anything about Christian, Deist, Jew (all of which were practiced/believed in in America at the time of the writing of the Constitution) or whatnot. You may not like a person’s faith, but our constitution gives them the right to believe as they will...even if it’s not in the Christian sphere.

The country was settled in part by people who were discriminated against because they were shut out of things because they didn’t pass tests restricting who could hold public office and various other things because of their beliefs. Do we roll back the clock and the will of the founders to reinstitutionalize those policies? My Scotch-Irish and noncomforist ancestors would roll over in their graves and stand up and accuse me of dark things if I agreed to such ideas, particularly after they suffered under the same thing.

You may choose to make that a criteria for your candidate selection and urge other people to vote the same, but there’s no way you can say this should be legal requirement or policy.

"One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share."
Sincerely, W. Mitt Romney

Cult membership is a valid thing for a voter to look at, that is where the freedom lies.

Voters get to make their own personal decisions with out you or anyone else forcing them to see the world as you do and limiting them in their most private thoughts.

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