Posted on 10/09/2011 7:25:05 PM PDT by DRey
The latest Fox poll offered Republican voters a menu of 11 candidates and found...not only were voters scattered across the conservative landscape, but 1/4 of the Tea Party adherents sampled were still “not impressed” with anyone. It’s hard to impress a movement that only knows what it is against. Now, barring some wild twist of fate, there are two men standing: Mitt Romney, the methodical, thrill-free, ideologically elastic technocrat from Massachusetts, who has made himself the default nominee; and the last hope of the hard core, the Not Mitt: Rick Perry.
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...whatever you think of his deviations from Tea Party purity, they make some sense in the context of Texas. His decision to let children of illegal immigrants attend state colleges at the in-state tuition rate, which so scandalizes the zero-tolerance conservatives, is conventional bipartisan pragmatism in Texas. The logic is: if the federal government can’t keep illegals out, it’s not our fault, but we can at least steer them away from the welfare rolls or jails and into productive lives.
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In this race, Rick Perry is the Tea Party’s dream candidate, the one remaining figure who could translate a noisy backlash into serious power. If Rick Perry loses, the Tea Party will have missed the opportunity of a lifetime. If he wins, Perry being Perry, it’s not entirely clear whether he will appease its members, but my guess is he’ll try. “Rick Perry is the only candidate who would actually close down a cabinet department,” one longtime admirer told me, when I asked whether a President Perry would disappoint the Tea Party. “You would see a very happy base — at least for the first term.”
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It's not over where I live. There are several Tea Party groups, and they still meet on a regular basis.
I think if Romney is the nominee, instead of dying, the Tea Party will become a third party.
First, let us not derive our electoral mood(s) from the NYTimes.
Second, the TP was diluted some time ago, and this is just opportunistic journalganda from the grey lady herself.
What the TP achieved in the 2010 elections was nation-shaking, remarkable. Do we get two in a row? Less likely, IMO.
There is no question that the re-election of 0bama will be simply terrible from any number of standpoints, even if both bodies of Congress go GOP/TP. I don’t suspect anyone is particularly jazzed over Romney, he could easily be Bob Dole redux. I am also disheartened by folks who will not vote for him out of ideological purity. I think that’s a mistake.
Let’s keep our eyes on the prize. Even if it’s tarnished.
Bill Keller ??? Of the New York Times? The people who couldn’t find Chicago on a map so they could vet Obama?
Hey Bill, you’re a joke. Here’s a hot tip for you - something you and your boys wouldn’t be able to find on your own... It’s a Craig’s List link to an ad looking for paid protesters for “Occupy”. Think you ‘suck more’ people will do a story on it? And the people behind it?
If the Tea Party had conservative fat cats HIRING people to ATTEND Tea Parties, YOU WOULD COVER IT. ‘
Do yourself a favor - cover it and win back credibility. Here’s a link to make it easier:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html
This means they’re really, really SCARED and that they want you not to think of Cain.
Did you have a jerky football big-shot in your high-school? Plenty of them did fine, but did you have one that simply kept hanging around town in his letterman jacket, expecting you YEARS LATER to ooh and ahh at him?
THAT is what these lib NYT writers are like —terminal confidence, and TOTALLY misplaced.
If I ever go nuts, I want to have THIS GUY’S version of crazy.
They act like winners NO MATTER WHAT.
Prediction: Total blow-out for Cain, and no more NYT in 5 years.
The tea party made a helluva difference in 2010 and that will continue in 2012. We the people are pissed off and madder than hell. The Marxist Obama keeps pushing and we’re going to push back. Even if we don’t get a tea party patriot on the presidential ticket, we’re going to continue building on our majorities in the House, the state houses, the local governments and most importantly, we’re going to retake the senate!
Then we start repealing, abolishing, reversing and disbanding the disgraceful, unAmerican, unconstitutional, bloated, overreaching socialist/Marxist government and replace it with... Liberty!
And if a Marxist or RINO president gets in our way, IMPEACH the corrupt liberty-hating bastard!!
Do not need to go public anymore, working behind the scenes.
Gotta love the NYT, trying to rewrite reality to suit itself.
Oh yeah, that is true, I had screen shot it.
Indeed! Been there, done that!
Next time around let's look to Georgia for the next POTUS: HERMAN CAIN!!
That's a keeper!
This person apparently does not understand how the TEA party formed. The letters stand for Taxed Enough Already.
We think if we returned to our Constitution and Founding documents, we can turn ourselves back into the Constitutional Republic our founders envisioned.
IMO, the best man for the job of restoring this nation to it’s founding principals is Herman Cain.
The dying Slimes, like the CommiePost is desperate to make this out to be a two-man race.
They’ll take it down soon - they always do when they get caught... For now it’s still there:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html
Well its obvious isn’t it?
If the tea party doesn’t want to vote for St Rick its clearly dead. LOL
Bill Keller is a Marxist hack. Nothing he writes is worth reading or discussing.
They’re desperate to kill the Tea Party. Remember, their audience is liberals.
NO, the Tea party is fine. It’s over for the NY Times!
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