Posted on 03/12/2012 8:50:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Just because the tea party hasn’t been as noisy this election cycle doesn’t mean it won’t be a force come November, says Elizabeth Price Foley, author of “The Tea Party: Three Principles.”
“When it comes to the presidential contest, I think the tea partiers will turn up in droves,” she told The Daily Caller.
“They aren’t rallying in the street anymore — I think they’ve been there, done that, so they appear to be quieter. But tea party chapters are still alive and vigorous, and they are just chomping at the bit to pull a lever in November.”
What’s more, says Foley, is that tea partiers will ultimately rally behind whomever the GOP nominee turns out to be.
“And frankly, I think many tea partiers are eager to pull the lever in favor of the Republican presidential nominee — whoever that turns out to be — simply because, from their perspective, that person’s policies will be clearly preferable to those of President Obama,” she said.
Foley is the rarest of species: a tea party academic. A law professor at Florida International University and chair in constitutional litigation for the Institute of Justice, Foley says many of her liberal colleagues didn’t receive her pro-tea party book too well.
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What do you mean by win Congress? Throw out all the RINOs? If we could do that, maybe Romney is controllable. But more than likely we’ll still be plagued with the RINOs in order to control the House and/or Senate.
Given that fact, all bets are off concerning Romney. They’ll continue to trash conservatives and the TEA party. Remember McCain and Pansy Grahamnesty? Romney will provide cover for the RINOs to give the dems everything they ever wanted. There will be no fighting, just liberal policies like Romneycare, continued gays in the military, gay marriage, no more DOMA but ENDA will pass, Crap and Tax, new gasoline taxes and other fees, gun bans, free or low cost abortions for all. You name the liberal idea and with tiny tweaks and minuscule concessions to conservatives, it’s going to pass and be signed with Romney as president. The Supreme Court will be filled with Scottish law RINOs and international law lovers.
That is what supporting RINOs does for you.
I am also Tea-Party, and I will vote for a rabid dog against the Kenyan socialist. Well, I hope it is Newt getting the nomination, but if he does not, I will not make Obama re-election committee happy, regardless of who it is. Sarah, Jeb, Christy, Rick, Mitt, Ron, Mitch, etc all are vastly preferable to the community organizer from Chicago. Nothing against Chicago, I spent 35 wonderful years there and it is a great town.
One RINO at a time, district by district.
There is one thing that Joe Biden said, which I like very much. “Call me whatever you want.”
Liberals can say nasty things, but they are just words.
If we weren’t a threat to them, they wouldn’t call us anything. We scare liberals, because conservatives really have the power.
Yes, but that won’t happen this year. The RINOs combined with the dems are greater than the number of conservatives in Congress and will be in the foreseeable future. But that is where we need to make changes as we can. Steady increases can win a greater number of seats and more power in Congress.
There is no reason for the republicans to nominate someone who is responsible for a low cost, now free, abortion providing bill becoming law. I’ve never voted for an abortion provider. I never will. Death to Romneycare.
No, it may not happen this year.
But are you willing to fight so it can happen thirty years from now?
Or would you prefer to wait for those perfect conditions?
I’ve been fighting and I will continue to fight. But unlike you, I will fight liberalism where ever I find it, including the liberalism of the GOP-E republican party and their favorite Mitt Romney.
You forgot George Herbert Walker Bush.
That’s not unlike me. :)
I would accept Romney, to move Obama along, but then push Romney into supporting the most conservative positions I could push him into.
But before I had to accept Romney, I would for Newt as hard as I can.
In the endgame, we’re on the same side.
The bipartisan, socialist political class controls this country from all levels of government to enforce its social pathologies and take whatever it wants. We peasants will just watch the counterproductive debt regime show from the outside. By now, many of you have noticed that most incomes are received directly or indirectly from government with fewer revenues and increasingly more debt.
I don’t have to accept a lying, flip flopping, gun grabbing, gay agenda loving, abortion providing socialist with a willing Congress backing him up. If you have found a way to control Mitt, push him out of the party now. :)
The only right now is highly irregular and disapproved by the authorities. :)
By fight for Newt as hard as you can, then fight for your congressman as hard has you can.
“And frankly, I think many tea partiers are eager to pull the lever in favor of the Republican presidential nominee — whoever that turns out to be — simply because, from their perspective, that person’s policies will be clearly preferable to those of President Obama,” she said.
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Delusional much? If the majority of Tea Party people vote for Obama-lite, then the country gets what it deserves and I’ll be under the shadow of His wings, thanks. Saying it’s so doesn’t make it so, but thank you for weighing in, Tokyo Rose.
Yeah, there’ll be a raging flood of voters if Romney is nominated. /s
mark
ANYONE is better than Obama, IMO.
On any ticket.
For any office.
Ever.
No Boehner as Speaker.
No McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.
FUMR FUJB FUMM FUGOP "
We conservatives are the numerically superior presence in the country, but we always manage to get screwed by the Republican Party, and hold our noses, and vote for the latest RINO incarnation. I am not going to do that AGAIN. If Romney is the nominee, I will not vote for him.
I think it’s because you’re not willing to fight as hard. I’ve heard it said that conservatives tend to stay at home when things don’t go there way and I think there’s truth to this.
It can be hard to be a conservative politician when his supporters stay home, while he is up to his ears in liberal voices. There aren’t too many people, period, who are strong enough to stand up to liberals when liberals are pushing one way and conservatives aren’t pushing the other way.
So very wrong.
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