Tea Party to Back Any GOP Nominee— Including Romney [according to self-appointed tea party "leader"]

Fox News ^ | June 4, 2011 | Lexi Stemple

[LibFreeOrDie]

The Tea Party will support whoever wins the GOP presidential nomination - - even if that person is former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. That's the affirmative word from Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[LibFreeOrDie]

I’ll ping Lloyd Marcus. He’s a FReeper and was on the tours with Amy. Maybe he can tell us what’s going on.

[353FMG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXe3Kvg-qU&feature=player_embedded

[HMS Surprise]

Tea Party is not likely to do anything positive for Romney. The best he can hope for is that they don’t go third party. If the Republican Party doesn’t nominate a Palin or Cain they will be going 2012 alone. I would suggest that the Tea Party focus on congressional races if the Republicans lose their mind again.

[OldNewYork]

This could get interesting, as they say. There’s more than one tea party.

[Eaker]

Um, no.

No Romney, no how and no way.

[Gator113]

mute=moot

I very nice FReeper brought this mistake to my attention. Thank you.....

[TaxPayer2000]

Don't worry folks, she's nobody and she speaks for none but herself.

Here she is on The Tea Party Expres website:

http://www.teapartyexpress.org/media/

[RegulatorCountry]

Ms. Kremer lunched with Steve Colbert today. She doesn't appear to miss many opportunites for either one, eating or MSM interviews.

Andrea Mitchell, Andrea Mitchell, that bitter old sourpuss, referred to her as "grassroots," so naturally Kremer began reeling off Republican talking points. She also was involved in a nasty affair verging upon lawsuit, after bolting another tea party group for TPX.

Maybe she's just full of herself, but it doesn't feel right.

[ansel12]

In 1992, I swore I wouldn’t vote for HW, but in the booth, as I was finishing up, the hole was right there in front of me, and I said this is stupid, and I punched it before folding the ballot. I have regretted that act for all of these years, but I won’t have a last minute change of mind for Romney, I won’t be voting for him, period, and I will be looking for avenues to replace the corrupted, within the GOP.

[freekitty]

She sure as heck doesn’t speak for me.

[SoConPubbie]

I don’t care if I have to drink gallons of Pepto-Bismol to vote for Romney. Heaven forbid he’s the nominee! But if it came down to the perfumed prince or Obama, I’d crawl to the polls to vote against Obama. Mitt literally disgusts me. He epitomizes EVERYTHING that’s wrong with the Republican Party establishment, BUT he’s not a Marxist and he doesn’t hate America.

Not me, or my family.

If Myth gets the nomination, we vote third party.

No more lessor than 2 evils garbage for us.

[Elsiejay]

I don’t remember an election for Tea Party Chairman.

[Kirkwood]

This idiot doesn’t speak for the TRUE Tea Party.

[freekitty]

This obviously is a self appointed person who has taken it upon herself to speak for all of us I would say she is no Tea Partier.

[Jim Robinson]

Amy Kremer just jumped the shark. I pray she’s no longer with the Tea Party Express after this. If this is their official position, they are not part of the same tea party I’m in. She’s definitely not a tea party leader.

[Gator113]

Love it.

[Lancey Howard]

Does anybody else roll their eyes when they see “tea party” capitalized, as if it’s a real, trademarked organization with “leaders”, etc.? I swear the rats are hard at work through their newsrooms (with a lot of help from the clownish political wannabes and libertarian malcontents who are always the loudest “tea partiers”) to turn the effective tea party protests of 2009 into “The Tea Party”, until it becomes the same kind of marginal laughingstock that the “Move On” campaign evolved into ten years ago.

[AlexW]

What other choice does the Tea Party have, other then to be working hard NOW to get a conservative candidate on the ballot.

In my opinion, America is pretty much washed up, and only an act of GOD can save her at this point.
Living off shore, one might say, I really don’t have a dog in this hunt, but I support Sarah, the only true conservative out there.

[Gene Eric]

There is absolutely no reason to be making these statements before the primaries.