[Mozilla]

The tea party "leaders" have gotten the message that people are not in lock step with Romney.

[sockhead]

Guess they prefer Obama

[dfwgator]

Romney has NO shot....zero.....zilch.....nada.

[reefdiver]

I do not recognize a self appointed so called leader

[rockinqsranch]

Then why not Newt? Makes no sense that so many people don’t even respect Mitt Romney yet focus on him as the candidate. Makes no sense. Romney has Romney on his mind while Newt has America on his.

Maybe many people, mostly women I understand don’t respect Newt, but of the two we believe in the one that has America first on his mind.

They should hold their noses, and vote Newt rather than hold their noses, and vote Romney.

[HerrBlucher]

They don’t have to campaign for Romney, they can campaign against Obama, which is their forte anyway. Its not just Obama we need to fire, its his whole admin, especially eric holder. The Romney admin will likely be liberal, but not the virulent communists and racists littering the obama admin.

[MayflowerMadam]

“The tea party is not going to coalesce around Romney,”

In one of his speechese, I’m 98% sure I heard Romney say “coRalesce” which, as far as I know, isn’t a word. Another dummy potentially heading up the free world.

As a Tea Partier, I’ll vote for Romney, will not campaign for him, and will campaign against Obama. That’s about as good as it gets for us conservatives, I think.

[Wurlitzer]

It is perfectly fine and understandable that the Tea Party does not want to endorse Mitt. Just STFU about it then.

It is one thing to not believe in enough of the core principles of a candidate to give your support but only moronic idiots would turn that lack of endorsement into cannon fodder for Mubumbo Odumbo.

The Tea Party, SHOULD have made itself heard loud and clear before and in the early stages of the primaries. That is the time for us to move the big gray elephant back on the right path and away from the seductive Progressives.

Now that time has passed and this is what we have to work with. The Tea Party should now concentrate on getting the most Conservative candidates elected to the House and Senate so they can pull Mitt to the right if he tends to walk into the communist weeds.

Again, Tea Party I love you but, STFU if all you are going to do is attack the candidate running under the GOP banner.

REMEMBER or LEARN that the communist Progressives WILL use every Saul Alinsky trick in his dishonest debate book to get Fearless Reader, Mubumbo Odumbo, elected and they will make use of every attack the Tea Party or any of us directs at Mitt.

For all purposes the Primaries are over. This is who will be running and you now have a choice; Four more years with an anti-American occupying the White Hut and no worries about future elections so he will be free to complete his destruction of the country or a candidate who may not share all or even most of your values but at least does NOT HATE the USA.

[sirchtruth]

The tea party is not going to coalesce around Romney,” Judson Phillips told The Daily Caller on Thursday. “Most of us will vote for Romney, but we will not be out there with signs for him or in his campaign.”

This is just preposterous B.S. Why VOTE for Romney? He does not forward Tea Party principles. This republican party and some conservatives are just cowardly prix!

NO MORE RINOS!

[Rappini]

Has anyone read Rule by Secrecy author Jim Marrs? I’m asking because it’s relative to the coming election.

[chainsaw]

The republican party had better listen up and define a Tea Partier, of which I consider myself one.

I do not join organizations or groups. I have my own set of political priorities, most of which, if not all, are derived from the constitution.

I use to be proud to call myself a Republican. However, today the republican party is nothing but a bunch of back stabbing leftist leaches, and me first types. The democratic party is even worse.

[no dems]

The tea party “leaders” have gotten the message that people are not in lock step with Romney.
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Then why in the hell did 1/3 of the Tea Partiers vote for RINO-Rom in every friggin’ Primary? I watched closely. 1/3 of the Tea Partiers supported him. And, why the hell didn’t the Tea Party take the lead and coalesce around ONE Conservative so we would not keep dividing up the vote and giving RINO-Rom “plurality” victories? So, the bottom line is:

ALL TEA PARTIERS ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE!!!

[Only Sane Man]

Let the RINO apparatchiks campaign for Romney — he’s their guy.

[dgbrown]

First thing is the Tea Party has been taken over by politicians, their ideas are still better than the alternatives. Where the Tea Party will make a difference is in the halls of congress! The presidential spot will probably never be won by the Tea Party. What they are setting up for the coming election is another Perot moment so we will end up with the same scumbags that we have had for the last 3+ years. Sorry, I will not do this. We have to take the medicine that will make us less sick. Face it, we will have 2 choices for the next election, republican or democrat. A vote for any other candidate is as good as not voting, but you will feel like you have voiced your opinion, good job, feel better. Guess what? You lost.

[altura]

I don’t believe this. I am a tea party member. I will vote for Romney and I will maybe get a yard sign or a bumper sticker.

Obama has given us fair warning (although inadvertently) that if elected he will double down on his destructive policies.

There will be no drilling, no tax cuts, no cutting of destructive agencies like the EPA. The NEA (both of them) will have free reign to indoctrinate our kids.

Our foreign enemies will have no respect for us at all, toothless pussy cats as we will be.

I won’t risk it. I’ll work for Romney.

[GBA]

I'm an American.

I think and speak "fly-over country" American interests and values and have a deep love for my country and the universal values expressed in our founding documents.

I want to hear a similar, from the head and heart, love and understanding being expressed from the person I vote for or I don't vote for them and will join the campaign against them.

I don't hear "American" from the demonrats/progressives. I hear the exact opposite.

What they are saying scares the hell out of me and demands someone to fight what they've done!

And, unfortunately, we don't get someone like that from the GOPe.

In fact, Romney sounds more like a former accountant from the UN who is trying out for a used car sales job.

[Gay State Conservative]

This is gonna be a close election.Osama Obama is *absolutely* beatable.Very much so.But he's beatable *only* if every single Republican...every single conservative...donates and votes.

Osama Obama & Friends rejoice every time they read a story like this.They fire up their crack pipes and celebrate by ******* each other up the ***,as today's "progressives" so often do.

[dgbrown]

“If I can’t have a BMW I’d rather walk.” I would go with a Chevette instead of walking.

[Agamemnon]

Let's extend this line of thinking a little more.

Assuming Romney becomes the (R) nominee, he will need to coalesce the base. He must do this convincingly for conservatives and Tea Party to get on board full throttle, not just halfheartedly.

How many of us were enthusiastic about Reagan in 1980 but thought the "Rockefeller Wing" was going to sabotage our chances when he selected GHWBush as his VP? How many of us were somewhat enthusiastic about Quayle, but not so much about GHWBush in 1988? How many of us were enthusiastic about Kemp, not so enthusiastic about Dole in 1996? How many of us were only cautiously supportive of GWBush in 2000, but roared when we learned he'd selected Cheney as his VP?

How does he get us on board? Here's a suggestion:

Run not only with your VP but with your proposed cabinet as well.

Conservatives sometimes have to be reminded that a President is not king. He can't get anything done by dictate. Above all, he must be a quarterback for the team. While a quarterback may sometimes run a ball in to the end zone himself, more often than not he strategically uses the talents of his team mates to move the ball down the field and bring about the win.

Did anyone hear Palin last night (4/12/2012) on Hannity when asked if she'd consider being Sec'y of Energy? Did anyone hear our own FReeper Allen West when interviewed on Hannity (4/11/2012) and asked whether he'd consider being Romney's VP? And BOTH essentially said YES!

Newt has practically conceeded. Are any of these folks any less conservative for facing what are becoming our realities this election cycle?

I have proposed cabinet and administration roles for persons who were Romney's rivals at some point. These are the skill sets we conservatives wanted applied to to the places of government where they'd be most effective. Instead of rivals let's make them team players:

Rick Santorum - Sec'y of HHS

Sarah Palin - Sec'y of Energy + Sec'y of Interior (merge these)

Newt Gingrich - Sec'y of Education

Michelle Bachmann - Attorney General

Herman Cain - Sec'y of Commerce and Head of GSA (merge)

John Bolton - Sec'y of State

John Petraeus - Sec'y of Defense

Ron Paul - Head of Federal Reserve (let the audit begin)

Donald Trump - Head Council of Economic Advisers

Paul Ryan - Head of Office of Management and Budget

Joe Arpaio - Head of FBI, and Homeland Security (merge these)

Dick Cheney - Head of CIA

White House spokesman: Mark Levin

And our own FReeper, Allen West, as VP.

Next: Most of these folks are honed primed and stoked from the recent primary debates. They're all sharp. Nationalize the cabinet selection process as much as the Presidential and Congressional elections.

Release every one of these folks back out onto the the campaign trail with an assignment: tackle in an "in your face" way each of these departments - stage a kick-off news conference in front of each one of them. Challenge the office holders to the equivalent of Lincoln-Douglas style debates allowing each Obama appointed office member to defend their record and their (mis)-management of their public trust.

They won't debate, you say? OK, try some new Rules for Conservative Radicals. Stalk them, dog them with cameras, shame them into the arena, watch the cowards avoid the heat, watch for and exploit their mis-steps, create and run ads based on their failures in office and refusal to be made accountable.

While this is distracting the DNCs resources, Romney can land his own punches on Obama in the same way he's managed to blow away all his opposition in the primaries. Use Romney's well funded strike teams to confound opposition at the grass roots, do what they can to discourage and depress Democratic opposition and their voters.

Face it: if Romney was able to take out his competitors in the primary don't you suppose Obama's hacks could have taken anyone of them out in the general?

Have Romney's boys sew the seeds of hopelessness and dissension in the Obama ranks, emphasise betrayal and failure of Obama to keep 2008 promises. Undermine, destroy and confound the opposition into a confused, ill-directed mass who find themselves fighting on more than one Alinskyized, freeze-the-target Presidential candidate, and instead spending their resources fighting 10+ personalities "running" for cabinet offices.

Who are the "generals" they have to call into a fight like that?

Romney and Netanyahu both began strategic business careers at Boston Consulting Group. Agree with them or disagree with them, but admit that they are patient, long range, strategic thinkers.

One of the things Romney has been able to do in large part is to keep his persona distanced from the decisively well-calculated positioning of opposition to rivals in the primaries. His name-less, face-less cloaked "hit-men" are as effective as any guerrilla force out there, but all that activity is maintained at a plausibly deniable, comfortable, arms-length distance from Romney the candidate. I dare say it puts the likes of Nixon's and Clinton's "opposition research" squads to shame.

I can see that machine going to work on Obama and leaving more than just a few lumps. Let's turn the "talents" of Romney's henchmen on to Obama, keep them disciplined, focused, and this side of doing any thing "Watergate," and let them go for the DNC's juggular.

If he's what we've got to work with this time around let's face that fact head on and let's hold his feet to the fire and make our will known as conservatives. If he's smart he'll seek our trust, and appoint many of our cabinet choices. To secure our trust he's going to have to both earn it and maintain it.

He'll go a long and convincing way to doing that by arming, deputizing, and funding the campaign efforts of his "cabinet-in-waiting."

FReegards!

[Antoninus]

It doesn't matter. The ruling elites on both coasts and of both parties will have a president they're happy with no matter who wins.

Left out in the cold? Conservatives, Tea Partiers, everyone in fly-over country.

[ncpatriot]

The Tea Party will really get out and protest if Romney does not keep his promises like repealing healthcare, etc. Romney will definitely hear from the TP if he goes wobbly on anything.

I have been saving my energy for what happens after election.