Romney: I Heart Tea Partiers

RESULTS – Feb. 2010 Early Freerepublic.com straw vote FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
Governor Palin was the overwhelming choice of freepers who voted!
Palin - 102 votes - THE WINNER
None Of The Above - 12 votes
Barbour - 10 votes
Hunter - 8 votes
Demint - 7 votes
Pence - 3 votes
Ryan - 3 votes
Jindal - 2 votes
Jeb Bush - 2 votes
Liz Cheney - 2 votes
Mitch Daniels - 2 votes
Newt Gingrich - 2 votes
Thune, Gary Johnson, Joe Wilson, Scott Brown and rick Perry all got a vote.
No Votes for Mitt RomneyCARE or Ron Paul or Huckabee .... 0 votes (none, zed, nada, doughnut, oh-no) “

let me be the first to say nothing

Is the tea party movement a positive force in the GOP?

Well, it's the only "conservative" movement worthy of respect.

Hopefully the GOP will be a positive force supporting the "tea party" some day.

Great hair.

Romney kisses up to the Tea Party movement after warning people to be wary of populism.

Why are Frum or Romney considered either conservative or GOP loyalists?
The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided …… to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) 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… I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
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…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"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 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."
… 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:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
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."

Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

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?"

and how many cups of tea has Romney drunk lately...

For political expediency ???

Romney: I Heart Tea Partiers

Well, the Tea Partiers don't love you Romney.... get lost!

Can’t vote for Mitt till I find out what his position of the day on every subject is.
Wait a minute it’ll change.
Just say NO to RINO turds.

Romney jumps the shark.

CAPTION THIS PICTURE FOR MITT

Letterman: "Come on, Mitt. Snap out of it. This is live TV.
What the heck are you thinking about at this moment?"

Go to hell, Willard.

Uh huh. He’ll be happy to love ANYBODY until he gets into the White House and can become his own, arrogant, self-important, super-RINO, sell-out self.

I trust Romney, like I trusted Schwarzenegger, when *he* was running for Governor...In other words, not at all.

And Schwarzenegger has borne out my distrust.

Both are unconscionable opportunists, who will betray anyone/anything if ans when it becomes expedient.

Look at what a sellout girly man turned out to be,and how he lets the freak and weirdo DemoPervs in Sacremento, squeeze his nuts at their leisure.

Romney GOP...my brand of big government control, crooks with stolen money making back room deals, serving cronies and arrogant, global elitist pocket lining politicians, ripping off and discounting the American peons and milking their freedoms is far superior to that of the global leftists....we don't curse while we do it and we have better hair./s

If Mitt attends a Tea Party event it would be the end of his political career. With out a doubt he would be booed off the stage.

I am a tea partier. I attended several tea parties and townhall events and I am not a fan of populism. Neither are most of the conservatives I know. It is not a fiscal conservative's first inclination usually.

The death knell for the Argentine economy, however, came with the election of Juan Perón. Perón had a fascist and corporatist upbringing; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich.
http://onemansthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/cry-for-me-argentina/

I don't have a problem with the rich, they create jobs..unless they are in bed with fascists who want to prevent others from having the freedom to be rich or just plain be left alone. Populism is just a word that elitists fear...the good ones and the bad ones.

When did FR become more Teddy Roosevelt and less Ronald Reagan?