Posted on 06/10/2011 3:00:11 AM PDT by South40
If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, Tea Party activists may not show up at all to vote in the general election, one leading group associated with the Tea Party movement is warning.
“I think that’s a potential problem,” said Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks’ president, during a wide-ranging interview with reporters at The Daily Caller.
He also warned that if Republicans nominate another “John McCain,” activists might even vote third party in 2012. “I believe in redemption, but at some point, you sort of give up,” he said. “And we’ve given up on Mitt Romney.”
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They don’t call the pubbies the stupid party for nothing. The TEA party is the ONLY reason for the ‘10 election success, and they better remember it-!!! Run, Palin, RUN-!!!
Instead of using vote fraud, graveyard voting and ACORN ballot stuffing (etc.) to put THEIR candidate in office, wouldn’t it be easier to use those same tactics to put a hopeless opponent into position?
Nobody is staying home in 2012, I can assure you. Lots of people going to be venting, even if they have to walk five miles in five feet of snow to do it.
I could have posted a dozen paragraphs to say that Sarah Palin doesn’t just claim to agree with patriotic Americans, she lives American values. As they say though, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Sarah is a real American. As for Romney ... maybe as American as Obama or Karl Marx.
Wishful thinking will not get them to the polls. I can attest to that from a recent mayoral election in Jacksonville. Only 36% of the registered voters in a conservative area showed up with a tea party endorsed true conservative pitted against a Dem with no experience and accounting troubles with the NGA’s he headed. The Dem won.
I submit that the voters are tired of the whole mess in that no matter if they show up or not, we have the same big government types who end up winning in that they will just not trust anyone in politics any longer. That is the true hurdle we have to clear to get them to the polls.
The Establishment Republicans globbing onto Mitt for Brains will do nothing but fortify that pervasive attitude of the general public.
This TEA Partier certainly won’t stay home. Taking back the Senate is essential.
There is no way I’ll vote for Romney. Not going to happen.
I’ll vote third party if I have to.
I’m not going to support any RINO in the general and I don’t care if Obama win. I rather US collapse while a liberal is in charge, than have GOP take the blame with more democrat-lite solutions
I don’t think most people tie their employment or economic situation to who is in the mayor’s office. At this point people can’t wait to get rid of this clown who talks about “gay month” or whatever it is instead of the jobs they need to have even a semblance of the standard of living we had five years ago.
Participation in my local elections is low as well; I don’t like it, but complacency is disappearing as people realize how precarious their hold on even a diminshed standard of living has become.
Not me, While I am no mit fan, I’m voting against zer0. Worst guy ever to hold the office, Worst group of supporting cast.
There can be no sitting this one out, unless your moving for good to another country
“IF” Romney is nominated????????????????
Hell! He is their “boy” and was nominated back in 2008. Only thing was, they told him that his turn was 2012 and he would have to wait.
I wonder where the hell they are polling since I’ve found no one that I know that can stand the elite buffoon.
The GOP continues in it’s unbridled race into obscurity.
And everyone of them would be responsible for putting Obama in another four years.
The place to battle is the primary. If you can't beat Romney for the nomination, you sure as hell can't beat Obama in the general.
Grow up, people.
Every time Romney gets close to winning "his turn," he squashes the sell. The latest example is his insistence on ambiguity with regard to the Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW) nonsense. That position is no small matter for many people. It's an intelligence test, perhaps one of the better litmus tests separating a Conservative leader from the Obama Collective.
We need huge turnouts in the primary to prevent this from happening. I was surprised to hear Ann Coulter last night say she is a Romney supporter.
I will never again vote for a RINO and I’ve never voted for a democrat.
Why don’t you just keep right on encouraging the RINOs, somewhere else?
His Massachusetts administration revealed Romney’s orientation all too well - Democrat Lite.
In a two-party system, is it too much to ask that the candidates represent distinct and separate philosophies?
LLS
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