Posted on 11/05/2011 10:52:15 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
DAYTONA BEACH -- At the Florida Tea Party Convention Saturday, you could find buttons calling for Marco Rubio to be on the presidential ticket, t-shirts declaring that Barack Obama has made communism cool again, and freeze-dried foods to last up to 25 years in case society collapses.
Scarce among the hundreds of conservative activists gathered in Daytona Beach? Any enthusiasm for Mitt Romney, the man widely expected to win the Republican presidential nomination.
“The party establishment has wanted Romney all along, and they’ve been pushing him on us,” lamented James Koll of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who said he would support a third-party or write-in a candidate before voting for Romney.
His brother, retiree Don Koll of The Villages in Central Florida, nodded in agreement.
“Some of these Republicans think they have our votes in the bag no matter what, but they don’t,” he said, complaining that no top-tier Republican candidates came to the tea party convention. “They’re turning their back on us, and they will pay a price.”
It’s one of the most critical questions facing Republicans determined to oust Obama: Is the president polarizing enough to energize the Republican base?
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I will never vote for the two-bit, lyin', flip-floppin' Socialist bum Romney!
FUMR!!!
I understand the sentiment, but I can’t agree.
I’ll push for a conservative to be the nominee, but if it comes down to Romney or Obama, I sure won’t sit at home and let Obama have a second term. I won’t lop off my head, arms and legs to spite my face.
FUMR!
In more than two dozen interviews with tea party activists mingling at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach Saturday, there was overwhelming consensus: Herman Cain is the preferred candidate, though Newt Gingrich also is growing on them.
Over and over again, people dismissed the significance of sexual harassment allegations against Cain when he led the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s. No accuser has been named, they said. No specific wrongdoing has been identified. The news media are hyping a story without much to it. Settling frivolous complaints is common in any business.
Things are looking good!
We HAVE to take the lead in ignoring this stupid story and pushing for Cain. I think there’s way too much looking ahead to the general election, which is why Romney (somehow) is the candidate prefered by country-clubbers.
If we MAKE Cain a viable candidate he will BE a viable candidate. And when (I hope) he and Obama debate? Oy, I may actually feel a microscopic trace of sympathy for poor Obama, looking like a lost child up there trying to deal with a man who doesn’t think he’s so wonderful (the way McCain did).
Wiser people at the convention than the one who wrote this story.
GOP will be in for a shock when the base votes third party or tags at home. Mitt will not win the general.
Let the democrats tear what’s left down...not a rino.
Scarce among the hundreds of conservative activists gathered in Daytona Beach? Any enthusiasm for Mitt Romney, the man widely expected to win the Republican presidential nomination.
I think it’s possible the “prevailing wisdom” that it would be Romney crested too soon. It gave conservatives time to respond.
I’m actually more confident now that Romney may not be the nominee than I was even a couple days ago.
Reading your post made me think of Cain coming up with some good analogies during a debate with Obama where Obama is the example!
Don’t worry it won’t be Romney. He doesn’t really have a path to victory. He isn’t going to win Iowa. He may win NH but he won’t win SC or FL. The problem he has is as the conservative field thins they consolidate behind the remaining conservatives. Look at Iowa Cain has more support than both Romney and Newt combined in the latest poll. That’s a pretty strong position. We just need to keep holding the line. We have more power collectively than the Washington elite and this year it appears the people have decided they aren’t going to be gamed.
“I sure won’t sit at home and let Obama have a second term. I won’t lop off my head, arms and legs to spite my face.”
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I agree, but I mainly reply to your tag line”
(Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
I have burned out on Michael Savage, simply because he thinks
Obumbo is probably the smartest person to ever occupy the White House.
I have zero idea as to why anyone could think that.
it pisses me off that ANY conservatives would vote for Romney. People like Ann Coulter. What are you smoking?!?!?
it pisses me off that ANY conservatives would vote for Romney. People like Ann Coulter. What are you smoking?!?!?
I have a friend who listens to Savage and I tuned in again this past week, and I couldn’t make it to the first commercial. He’s everything people say Limbaugh is, but Limbaugh is vivid, fun, smart, and his show moves. Savage spent the whole section with this tortured logic showing how he was doing so well in the ratings while Limbaugh’s “were stagnant,” yet Limbaugh’s were much higher. Then he talked about his gay little dog. Who wants to hear that borefest?
It would be amazing to hear Cain’s story in contrast to Obama’s, since most Americans seem to just assume Obama is a black cliche—people STILL seem surprised when they learn about where Obama actually grew up.
Obama is a pampered little dweeb compared to the accomplished Cain, who has WORKED and ACHIEVED.
Because he managed to CON so many people? But, what does that say about them?
Yeah but will the rest of the GOP AND independents vote for Cain over Obama?
If we have a divided party or we don’t get independents on our side, then all this is for nothing and Obama will easily win.
I know everyone hates them...but we need the Romney moderates. We need the Ron Paul libertarian wing. We dont have the votes to go it alone.
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