Posted on 06/24/2011 6:57:20 AM PDT by Hawk720
The anybody-but-Mitt Romney faction developing within the tea party may pose a problem for the former Massachusetts governor’s presidential ambitions, but some tea party organizers worry it could also backfire against the movement itself.
Romney, the current Republican front runner, is viewed skeptically – at best – by many tea partiers. And disagreement over whether to actively oppose him threatens to undo the uneasy truces forged in the run-up to the 2010 midterms and undermine the fledgling movement’s influence in the GOP.
The possibility of Romney winning the nomination is even reviving debate about whether activists should embrace, or even form, a third party – an idea that until recently had been dismissed as harmful to both the movement and the GOP.
“I honestly don’t know whether the movement will perform well” in the presidential election, said Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, a national coalition of local groups. “I don’t think anybody is looking for a third party candidate, but anybody who would count out that possibility, I just think is ignorant.”
Another tea party leader, Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, describes the presidential election as a potential “Achilles heel” for the movement, which arose in 2009 in opposition to what its activists saw as unchecked government spending and expansion under President Barack Obama.
“Our power comes from the fact that we’re not dependent on anybody to be the leader,” Kibbe told POLITICO, conceding the tea party’s diffuse and decentralized nature may be better suited to congressional races than presidential politics.
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Let me know when you find some.
And I'll support 'em.
Sarah Palin is a conservative Republican.
You're an anti-conservative-Republican troll.
Pro-choice for states on abortion, like Gerald R. Ford and Ron Paul, and unlike Ronald Reagan and the Reagan Republican personhood Fourteenth Amendment plank for 27 years.
Pro-Law of the Sea Treaty.
Pro-John Judas McCain.
Pro-McCain Pathway to Citizenship for Illegal Invaders.
Pro-U.S. Dept. of Education.
Pro-judicial supremacy.
You may consider such positions "conservative," but I don't.
Is every individual who disagrees with you, and her, on these matters "an anti-conservative-Republican troll"? Or just me because I don't roll over for your tired old Alinskyite bullying tactics?
Sarah Palin is pro-life, obtuse troll. It's been explained to you ad nauseum. Shut your yapping pie hole!
Is every individual who disagrees with you, and her, on these matters "an anti-conservative-Republican troll"? Or just me because I don't roll over for your tired old Alinskyite bullying tactics?
Any chairman of any third party, such as yourself, no matter how insignificant, is by definition anti-Republican. If you weren't anti-Republican, you'd be a Republican. You want the Republicans to lose in 2012...or you wouldn't be the chairman of an insignificant little party spouting lies about conservative Republican candidates.
You post crap from dubious sources to smear Republicans. It's reprehensible.
You are the Alinskyite...demanding absolute political purity from flawed, conservative human beings trying to rid America of a Marxist president.
Good riddance.
Ah. Now I see the problem. You can't stand folks who actually demand actual adherence to conservative principle.
Not surprised in the least.
You post crap from dubious sources to smear Republicans. It's reprehensible.
Yeah, like their own words and records and endorsements and stuff.
You don't see squat.
You can't stand folks who actually demand actual adherence to conservative principle.
I can't stand any anti-conservative-Republican third party political chairman running interference for Democrat assholes, telling lies about pro-life candidates like Sarah Palin, who holds the same views on Roe vs. Wade as Ronald Reagan, and posting horseshit from dubious sources...using the same language as the MSM and the Democrat Party to attack good conservatives.
You're full of the above. Good riddance, clown.
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