WTH? How can Newt win a poll of (supposed) “Tea Party Patriots”? I’m calling BS. Newt and Romney should have ZERO votes in such a poll, and Bachmann should lead it.
Where you been? Newt’s been at 20-35% in almost all Tea Party polls - either tea party straws or the internals of other bigger polls.
Could be some adults in the TP remember the last time there was anything like the TP movement. They remember it was the CWA congressional election in 1994 and they remember who led that movement and who took almost all of the crap from the establishments of both parties for it.
Perhaps you don’t remember that.
You are absolutely wrong about that.
The “Tea Party” is made up of independents, mostly, and is a combination of Conservatives, Democrats, Moderates and Partisan Party operatives.
This IS why Newt is doing so well. They don’t care about his past, everybody deserves forgiveness when it is genuine. And Newt is a conservative who started the movement in 1994, when he championed the first Republican majority in 40 years. And he is responsible for the Conservative Revolution, Rush Limbaugh’s rise to greatness and many more positive things few here care to even consider and mostly ignore.