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Tea party activists remain wary of Romney (but Romney campaign expects Tea Partiers to surrender)
The Los Angeles Times ^
| 2011-11-17
| Paul West & Seema Mehta
Posted on 11/17/2011 7:49:43 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Washington and Des Moines - Throughout the roller-coaster Republican presidential contest, one thing hasn't changed: the stubborn refusal of many tea party supporters to warm up to Mitt Romney.
The swift rise and abrupt fall of a succession of GOP candidates has been driven in part by the restless search for a Romney alternative by that group of voters, who energized the GOP's big turnaround in 2010.
"They don't trust Mitt Romney," said Simon Conway, a Des Moines radio host popular with tea party followers. "Mitt Romney can be tea party one minute, and the next minute introduce 'RomneyCare'" the Massachusetts healthcare plan Romney pushed as governor.
Privately, Romney's campaign expects that tea party backers will rally around him once he starts winning primaries. Until then, he has made a carefully calibrated effort to embrace them.
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To: rabscuttle385
He’s going to win NH.
But if he loses Iowa, SC and Florida, then we’ve stopped him in his tracks.
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:51:52 PM PST
by
samtheman
To: rabscuttle385
Be afwaid Be vewy vewy afwaid...
To: rabscuttle385
The MSM pushes out that drivel.
Romney is looking for conservatives to be his streetwalkers.
We should give him BJs and pay up when he wants it?
Take your courting, Slick Willard, and shove it where the sun don’t shine!
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:52:21 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: rabscuttle385
I might have to surrender and vote for him, but I will be holding my nose and gagging as I pull that lever.
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:53:28 PM PST
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: All
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:56:08 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: basil
You’ve been Yellow Carded by JimRob.
Anyway, be sure you don’t get that Red Card.
No one likes Mittens!
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:56:37 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: rabscuttle385
...will rally around him once he starts winning primaries. Until then, he has made a carefully calibrated effort to embrace them. That is the problem, he embraces the tea party because it serves his interests, not because he actually thinks its a good idea. Just another political...
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:57:47 PM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:58:31 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
To: samtheman
NH is the only place he can win.
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:58:52 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: rabscuttle385
I’m really tired of being taken for granted.
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:59:08 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: rabscuttle385
Good luck with that one Mittens.
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posted on
11/17/2011 7:59:25 PM PST
by
Oceander
(TINSTAAFL - Mother Nature Abhors a Free Lunch almost as much as She Abhors a Vacuum)
To: rabscuttle385
=
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:00:02 PM PST
by
Lady4Liberty
(Watch Romney endorse Obama's radical liberal agenda: http://youtu.be/i1fThdWagJ4)
To: rabscuttle385
What an arrogant POS.
I’m getting more and more convinced I will sit out the election if Romney gets the nom. So everyone vote in the primaries so I can vote in the general. No Romney NO WAY!
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:01:05 PM PST
by
marty60
To: American in Israel
The man and newt are just a like both would sell you out before the ink was dry.
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:01:08 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Are you a whore or am I? Or the good people on this thread?
Romney’s campaign thinks we can be bought - IF he starts winning.
I’d rather see what he can bring to the table first. Its too early to call him a winner!
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:02:08 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: rabscuttle385
"...tea party backers will rally around him once he starts winning primaries." N-E-V-E-R ! !
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:02:54 PM PST
by
CanaGuy
(P.M. Steven Harper: We gave you a majority, now get busy!)
To: rabscuttle385
NEVER ROMNEY NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:03:20 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I stand with Herman Cain.)
To: rabscuttle385
Hey Romney guys - Expect in one hand and poop in the other. See which one fills up first.
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:03:47 PM PST
by
ImpBill
("America, where are you now?" - Little "r" republican!)
To: rabscuttle385
‘surrender’? This is an election not sex!
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posted on
11/17/2011 8:03:58 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
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