Tea Party Nation poll shows 52 percent will vote for Romney if he is GOP nominee (Look out Pubs!)

The Hill ^ | October 21st | Alicia M Cohn

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Most self-affiliated members of Tea Party Nation, one of the largest national organizations for the grassroots conservative movement, would vote for Mitt Romney as president if confronted with a choice between him or President Obama, according to a poll of members released to The Hill on Friday.

The group surveyed its members this week in an informal poll posted at the group’s website. The question asked was: If Romney is the GOP nominee, what will you do in the general election?

Fifty-two percent of about 1,150 respondents said they would “hold their nose” and vote for Romney if he becomes the GOP nominee, while 23 percent said they would vote for an unspecified third-party candidate. Twelve percent said they would not vote in the presidential election at all if the choice is between Romney and Obama.

[atc23]

Don't even get me started on fluoridated water.

I would say that I'm more of a Goldwater type - extremism in the defense of Liberty and all that.

It would be different if there were dozens of representative republics in the world - then things wouldn't be so serious. I would just move to wherever I thought the best one was. Whether it was Greece or Chile, Spain or Costa Rica. I could get by in any of those places as long as they had clean water, full supermarkets, spoke English, work. etc.

As it is now, there is only the US and even the US is a b*lls%it national security state but we still hope and work for a return to better days.

Obama's best friend? me? I don't know about that . .

Keep the faith, brother man - I gee-ar-un-t-double e you...

The South will Rise Again!! thats Linerd Skinerd! Hoo Ha! Rebel yell! -

[lonevoice]

If Romney is our nominee, I will vote for the "I Want My Mama" Dog, and I'll mean it.

[atc23]

Sometimes ole Herman does things before he really thinks about the "global" impact of his words and actions. Endorsing Slick Willard was one of those deals.

Herman is still coming to grips with being under the microscope and people cut him a lot of slack because he's not a milquetoast, weasley, "reach across the aisle" "reach around a democrat" slimy, disgusting career do nothing like 99 percent of these professional liars (politicians)

Double down!

CAIN/THOMAS 2012

[taildragger]

I will NEVER vote for socialist mittcare romney. Even if Cain debases and humiliates himself by taking the Veep slot, I will NOT support that socialist scumbag romney. I got burned by the GOP enough with mccain. NEVER AGAIN...

As the Late Michigan Talks Show Legend Mark Scott would say, we maybe stuck voting for the evil of two lessers.

I can't pull the lever for Romney, and to all those of you here, thanks for nothing, bla, bla, bla, enough I heard it already. If I have to I am out of here and the better half finally agrees. Their are other reasons, but not for here. If it's Romney I stay home or write in Cain or Palin. At that point the RNC and GOP can take a lesson from Mike Moran care of me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1EoZ_nwYIk

[LS]

That’s what the Germans said about Hitler and von Papen.

[XEHRpa]

> This is half of “Tea Party Nation” not half of the bloomin’ GOP.

True, but the base serves a vital GOTV role, as well as filling staffing needs immediately as they arise. When the base is unhappy, the candidate rarely does well.

[Big E]

It's not ridiculous. What if McCain had won in 2008? For one thing, you'd have full-blown amnesty right now, as that was one of McCain's primary issues. You'd still have the runaway EPA, as McCain is firmly in the global warming camp. While it's true you would not have Obamacare, you would probably have a souped-up version of SCHIP or some such thing, which may have been even worse than Obamacare, as at least there's a large movement afoot to get rid of Obamacare. Not to mention, it may be tossed out by the courts. A more incremental socialist approach, as would have been undertaken by McCain probably would have passed judicial muster. You would probably have the huge defecits you have now as well, as McCain is a bailout loving, big spending RINO.

Romney is just as bad as McCain. Romney will undertake the same disastrous policies, as McCain, and Obama. Yes, that's right, Romney's policies will not differ from Obama’s. Do you really think he's going to repeal Obamacare, for example?

[trussell]

How intelligent is it for conservatives to vote in a RINO who will turn everyone against the GOP and insure another democrat gets elected in 2016? At least if someone is going to destroy our economy, let it be a democrat so it shows the people who they need to be voting for...a TRUE conservative! I don’t want a wanna-be Repub destroying the reputation of the conservative name.

And a word about Cain...I like him as a business man, his pizzas were wonderful!!! ...but...all you hear from him is “999”, or “I would have a three step plan to look at the issue and decide what was the best way to deal with it”. He doesn’t have any answers to anything!

[Eagle Forgotten]

I wish I could agree with you that Romneycare was all the work of liberals in the state legislature. That's not how it went down, though.

Here's a short excerpt from a more detailed account of Romney's record on health care:

Jon Gruber is not the kind of guy who votes Republican for president. He is, after all, a liberal professor from Massachusetts. But at one point he was ready to make an exception for Mitt Romney. Back in 2004, Romney, then governor of the Bay State, summoned Gruber from MIT to his office on Beacon Hill. A leading health-care economist, Gruber had spent the previous few years modeling an insurance system that was neither liberal (like single-payer) nor conservative (like total deregulation), but somewhere in between. Romney, craving a signature policy achievement, was eager to hear more.

Gruber described the details: a marketplace where Massachusettans could shop for private coverage; subsidies to help poorer residents purchase insurance; a requirement that everyone contribute as much as they could afford. Best of all, he explained, there was no need to raise taxes or reduce services; just stop wasting $400 million a year on expensive ER visits for the uninsured and the reforms would pretty much pay for themselves. Romney was sold. "As a management consultant, his eyes lit up," recalls Gruber. "He just said, 'It's the right thing to do.' "

From The Daily Beast, April 15, 2010; link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/04/15/if-the-mitt-fits.html

Also, Romney did famously say (at the time) that he hoped the Massachusetts law would become a model for the nation. He can't now portray himself as a poor helpless Governor who did what he could to stop the liberal juggernaut. He was an instigator of the plan and was happily taking credit for it until his political ambitions dictated that he begin trying to appeal to conservatives.