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Tea Party members ... don't like Mitt Romney because he is not "one of us." He had a rich father and went to Cranbrook and Harvard Business School. He lives in Massachusetts and doesn't feel revulsion while visiting an Ivy League campus. He probably even reads the New York Times. How can he possibly represent us? He doesn't share our background, our hatred of the press, our disdain for New York and Washington.

I don't like Mitt Romney and the author has failed to cite a single reason why I reject him. I do not give a damn if his father was rich, what universities he attended, or that he does not feel revulsion upon treading an Ivy League quad. He can read the New York Times from cover to cover everyday. These are but strawmen.

I do not like Romney because he is not an authentic conservative. I do not like Romney because he would suffer unborn babies to die so the can gain political power. I do not think I am naïve when it comes to understanding the pressures upon politicians who wish to gain public office. I understand the need for party discipline and compromise but murder of the unborn is different matter.

I do not like Mitt Romney because no matter how you slice it he sold out on abortion for public office or he is lying to us now about his true feelings about abortion and is actually, inherently pro-abort.

I draw a clear distinction between a politician who lies about where he puts his little wee wee (Newt Gingrich) and a politician, like Barack Obama, who countenances the murder not only of unborn babies but of babies who by a miracle successfully evaded the abortionist's knife.

Mitt Romney fails this fundamental test.

I do not like that Romney because he is interchangeable with George H. W. And George W. Bush.

I support Gingrich even as I recognize that his chances are fading for the very reasons the author recounts when he describes the frustration of the tea party. Our American heritage is literally being stolen from us and it will require a revolution, rather a restoration, to preserve what was mine by birthright and which I therefore should have a right to bequeath to my children.

I do not support Mitt Romney because I do not think he shares my anxiety, my frustration, or my sense of urgency in the need to save the Republic. If he does, he has exhibited remarkably little fervor. In any event, I am not convinced that he is the man who can go to Washington and actually reverse history new matter what his disposition.

I believe that Santorum will be properly motivated but that he will be swamped and ineffectual if he gains office and sidetracked onto social issues which are largely irrelevant to the larger picture confronting us now. He is not the man who can seize the moment, shape the debate, and leave the country in a whole new direction. Anything less simply will not do.

I don't know if Gingrich can do it, but I do know that he is the only man in the race whom we can identify as having the character, the history, and the hunger to do it.

Well said.

It's Newt or neutered, and if it isn't Newt there will be far more blood than those who think this is about a minor political surgical procedure and a few regulations imagine even in their wildest revolutionary dreams.

Excellent response to that article.

The articles supporting Romney read very much like the articles supporting Obama, now and in 2008. You could interchange the names, and the message would be the same.

I’ve thought about why I don’t like Mitt Romney and won’t support his bid for President.

It comes down to the fact that he is genuinely two-faced. He projects one image of himself and then projects a different image of himself that more often than not is the exact opposite of his previous projection. In my mind that says he has no core beliefs that I am comfortable with.

Also it brings to mind the advice I was given almost forty years ago now. If you are uncertain of a person and who they really are look to the people that they surround themselves with, look at their friends and supporters. It is easier to project one image and have that be accepted than it is to have all of your supporters do the same if they don’t truly have the same beliefs as yourself.

Another way of looking at that, (A metaphor), is to think of your supporters being your shadow. A true shadow does exactly as you do... A false one does something entirely different.