The TEA Party fought Obamacare tooth and nail. For Romney to claim the TEA Party mantle is ludicrous. He did the very same thing as Obama, he has Romneycare hung around his neck choking the life out of his campaign. We aren’t buying what the elites wish to sell us.
This is one of the problems with the structure of the Tea Party. Both Romney and Ron Paul like to claim they’re the Tea Party candidate. Since the Tea Party isn’t an organization with a declared leader, they have no way of refuting these people. That’s just one thing that makes me think the Tea Party needs to become a lot more of an official party than it is right now. If not an actual 3rd party, can it at least become an organization that could hold some kind of election to determine who its leadership and spokespeople are? If there’s a membership fee with money that would be donated to whoever the Tea Party-endorsed candidate is, that should keep liberals from spamming the voting process and also add some more incentive for candidates to support the Tea Party’s platform.