Posted on 04/13/2012 6:21:47 AM PDT by Mozilla
The leader of the Tea Party Nation organization has a blunt message for likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: Tea partiers will likely vote for you, but don’t expect them to get energized and campaign for you.
“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.”
Phillips said that surveys conducted on the Tea Party Nation website have shown that about 25 percent of tea party activists say they won’t vote for Romney in the general election.
-snip- Another conservative leader, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, struck a similar note after former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum dropped out of the presidential race this week.
“It’s difficult for us to back a candidate our constituents don’t believe in and aren’t excited about,” Perkins told CNN
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Replay the debates. All you have to do is listen to Romney’s words now. His first instinct is always to provide a solution to a problem from a stance of big powerful central government, instead of trying to get govt out of the way, limit it, and let the people solve problems and retain their freedom. That is the heart and core of socialism.
For some Washington men victory at all cost is a simple career choice. Others and i think, most Washington men that is, have a genuine interest in the power of their Government as that directly impacts the power of their insider influence.
The nature of both lawyers and lobbiest being the overwhelming bulk of the former, future, and present politicians seems to only further reinforce the notion that not only as a presently composed group but as individuals these people have a vested interest in the power of their respective governments. Power that directly translates in to both their present(in office) and future(out of office) influence.
Unfortunately we cannot hope to fight this corruption directly. Human nature is a funny thing in that it is so consistent and predominate in driving the minds of men, men we as a group can never hope to replace before their replacements too become pawns of the same game. Our path to victory must therefore heng upon a completely different plan of attack. One that utilizes the self-interest and greed of men against them. In short one that pits 1 group against the other and favors the group we as individuals can most control.(the more local due to individual feet vote)
Now I am not for Romney by any stretch of imagination, my preference this time went Palin, Perry, Cain, Newt, (Sometimes it was Newt then Cain) then it was Newt, I tried to like Santorum be wouldn't let me (but he is preferable to Romney!) now its Arggh! So please no name calling!
Too many people here do that and sometimes this place sounds as rational as DemoRat Underground!
There are two driving principles behind my vote, it would be ideal if both principles could satisfied then great. Hasn't happened since 1980 & 1984. But only one is a sufficient condition to vote, this time again I will be voting to deny power to the most dangerous candidate. Romney mostly has foolish views, he is not an enemy of American prestige and power. Even if we think of him as Gordon Gecko, a Zimbabwe version of the USA does him no good. (And don't say he would go off shore! Where to Europe hah! Look at Europe! Can you say PIIGS! We fall, they fall, all fall!) Zero and his ilk are too much the ideologue to see that! They actually want that Zimbabwe America. With Zero we go off the cliff at high speed and accelerating, with Romney we still head for the cliff but are decelerating. So there maybe time to turn things around so that Greece or Zimbabwe is not our future.
Strong GOP majorities in place can check any Romney accesses, it would be much harder to check a 2nd term Zero. First Zero would try to govern like Chavez because a) He is an arrogant ass, b) No political cost! He would dare the GOP to impeach him. If we could not impeach Clinton we aren't going to impeach the firs black president. Look we can't even get a handle in Zero's actual origins and story. So impeach? Impossible!
No, it isn’t “functionally” a vote for Obama, and mincing words and posting long-winded analysis won’t change that. Your vote only goes to the person you pull the lever for - it doesn’t magically equate to an Obama vote, and it doesn’t “take votes away” from anyone, either.
Clintons impeachment conviction failed in the GOP-e controlled Senate because they believed it would be politically better to have a wounded Clinton still in office leading up to the next election. If they had voted simply on the facts, they would have convicted him.
“If I can’t have a BMW I’d rather walk.” I would go with a Chevette instead of walking.
I'm so tired of GOP-e apologists and their frantic scare tactics.
They are like the girlfriend who doesn't understand that IT'S OVER. I won't vote for anyone not conservative. Ever again.
/johnny
Romney is a stupid dummy.
He did not have the guts to defend his own wife in
the last 24 hours.
Coward.
Romney is stupid and ruined the MASS economy.
Romney is so stupid he has to pay for votes
and cheat and import his congregation to help
his cheating over state lines.
And his comment about trees in Michigan being
the “perfect size”?
Without FOX “News” and his loyal troops who
pimp him, Romney would not even make it to
his fake “30%”.
I wish that wasn't that case, but it will be.
I seem to recall how most news anchors & debate moderators today will not accept any non-government policy based answer as an answer. They want to know how he will wield power not how he will not wield power.
You are of course right this breads not only statism but ultimately & inevitably socialism. The state is not the center of any civilization and certiantly not the center of the solution to every problem.
And both Romney and Obama represent the communist state.
/johnny
Brevity. Brevity is my “thing”.
“Ah, but you are spending your money doing just that, if you pay Federal income tax. And, if Obama is given free reign to implement more of his Socialist ides in a second term, you’ll be paying for even more of it.”
That is the Federal government lawlessly taking my money and spending it on an un-enumerated functions almost all of which have nothing to do with saving any socialist fool any socialist experiment. Quite the opposition it is the lawless imposition that experiment upon our population by a lawless Government from which there is no escape.
This obviously makes me quite angry. But Massachusetts being a very distant state composed of a very disgusting and irresponsible population doing this to themselves does not bother me. Their vote & acts to impose it upon the rest of us, is what bothers me. The people of Massachusetts deserve to live in a communist hellhole of their own creation. We should not be holding them back from the fire. They want to be Marxist fools and jump in, I say let em. The sooner we are rid of them the better off we will be.
You have to ask that question after seeing what the Romney/GOP hit machine did to those conservative who did enter the race?
Romney and his super-pac buds have run the dirtiest primary advertising, filled with half-truths and falsehoods, I can recall in my lifetime.
So you are willing to go communist faster? Stomping your feet on the sidelines doesn’t accomplish anything.
LOL - you sound like a liberal.
I tend to view this as not so much failed but rather they were unsupported at the top and occationally sabotaged. The GOP has been taken over by moderates who refuse to look at history and see that when we run moderate candidates, the GOP loses elections.
Nope, I prefer to let the GOP-e know that they can't force a RINO on me, so that eventually the idiots may get a clue. And work to keep the RINO from getting elected. And educate people on conservativism versus go-along-to-get-along GOP bullcrap.
/johnny
You are spot on in your assessment that we won’t survive another four years of either.
Government spending as a percentage of GDP has been averaging 10-12% for the past few years and it’s unsustainable when you start to look at it exponentially. The problem is, when that money spigot is turned off, the contraction will be painful, and I can’t think of a single politician who is willing to do the right thing, fall on their sword, and get our spending under control.
Mitt sure isn’t going to do that.
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