[GOP_Lady]

A very, very insightful article. Good job by the WSJ.

[GOP_Lady]

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[Jim Robinson]

F Romney. Wouldn’t vote for that scumbag if he was the last Republican on earth.

[Genoa]

I suppose I’ll have to click through and see how long it took them to notice Sarah Palin.

[Jim Robinson]

Hope you’re lining up a new home on the Internet. We will not be supporting Romney on FR. Period.

[toldyou]

Watch Marine at Tea Party...

http://www.thefoxnation.com/culture/2010/06/07/watch-marine-stuns-crowd-tea-party

[ViLaLuz]

“how to harness the movement.”??

WRONG. We are harnessing them.

[ViLaLuz]

RINO Romney sucks. I wouldn’t vote for him EVER.

[ilovesarah2012]

Go away Newt, go away Mitt, we’re not interested in what you’re peddling.

[PMAS]

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[Walts Ice Pick]

Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney plan to decide their 2012 plans early next year.

Both of them can forget about it.

Newt needs to understand that the American people will never elect to the presidency a man with a feminine, female voice. It may seem unfair, but that's the way it is.

Mitt cannot get the nomination, even if he renounces his present religion, which he will readily do if he gets the idea that it will work.

Both should announce their support for Sarah Palin now. It's not too early.

[topher]

The TEA Party of Lafayette, Louisiana, has demonstrations every week. It was initially at the corner of Pinhook and Kaliste Saloome Road.

That only lasted a couple of weeks.

Then the site for demonstrations/placards changed to the intersection of Johnston Street and South College/North College Intersection.

I am not sure how early they get there, but it is every Friday morning. They are normally there by 8am, so I imagine they come out earlier than this.

This is definitely a TEA Party event, and not a TEA Party Express event.

Note that Sarah Palin's tour of the country is a TEA Party Express event.

There are both TEA Party and TEA Party Express candidates forecast to win come November 2nd...

[Windflier]

"...Mitt Romney is solidifying ties with traditional party leaders and organizations..."

The WSJ needs to speak plain English.

Plainly speaking, Mitt is a phony who would be thrown out of any honest Tea Party meeting. The patriotic right thoroughly rejects him, so he's making alliances with the old guard, RINO establishment.

Lotta good that's gonna do him. The rebellion won't vote for him, and anyone who's stupid enough to publicly align themselves with him, will instantly be branded as a RINO for life. The man's going to be radioactive in 2012.

[Lakeshark]

One third of Republicans support the tea party so strongly that they describe themselves as part of the movement more than they identify as Republicans. Among this group, Mr. Gingrich is considered the GOP's "most important leader"—ahead of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has tied herself closely to tea-party candidates this year.

The article lost me right there.

Who in their right mind goes to TEA parties and supports Newt (or Mitt for that matter)? I never saw a Newt or Mitt sign there, not once. They are both late to the party, and simply trying to shapeshift to use all this new energy. It's not gong to work, the author is very wrong and slightly nuts to write such an idea.

[ansel12]

It looks like Governor Palin is the top dog in those three break downs, she ties for first in one category, and comes in second in the other two, giving her the top total percentage as most important leader/spokesman for the Republican party.

[Darren McCarty]

Gun grabbing Mitt's my last choice, and I'm not even a Palin supporter. I've seen plenty of the Romney faction here in Michigan and how they do things. I've also seen what his national staff did when McCain absorbed them in 2008 and how they acted in the final days of the election even before the ballots were cast. It was sabotage and cya to open things up for Mitt in 2012.

Anybody but Mitt, including the libertarian.

[sickoflibs]

Why do I get the feeling all hell is going to break loose next year?

[Diogenesis]

"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is solidifying ties
with traditional party leaders and organizations by helping
them with fund raising and candidate endorsements."

More accurately, Romney is using his operatives to attack
the GOP candidates. What an SOB he is again, for Obama.

"Mr. Romney's team... believes activists animated by fiscal discipline
and the size of government could see Mr. Romney
as a conservative Mr. Fix-It for the economy."

Trouble is that backstabber Romney was terrible in politics.
He RUINED Massachusetts, driving its economy DOWN, DOWN, DOWN.

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]