Posted on 04/24/2012 8:00:09 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
Though the tea party wasn’t particularly enthused about Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy during the primary, one tea party leader who was present at the inception of the movement says the tea party will get behind the former Massachusetts governor going into the general election.
“Absolutely, the tea party can and will support Mitt Romney in the general election, and with great energy in the door-to-door ground game,” said Michael Patrick Leahy, co-founder of The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition and author of the recently released book, “Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement.”
“It’s important also to note that this is a strong sentiment at the local level — among the 3,000-plus local tea parties.”
“Though on the core values, Mitt Romney’s not as aligned with us as Michele Bachmann, he’s far superior to Barack Obama,” Leahy added.
“Our job in the tea party movement is to cautiously but vigorously befriend Romney, while reserving the right to encourage him — continuously — to align more closely with our core values. This encouragement to align has already begun, and it will continue through and beyond election day.”
Leahy also pushed back against the notion that the tea party is becoming increasingly irrelevant.
“[T]he tea party’s grassroots get-out-the-vote activities will be the deciding force of the 2012 presidential election,” he contested.
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Not a chance.
Romney, the Soros plant, is FOR TARP, RomneyCARE,
more taxes (called “fees”) and Sharia.
Who in the Tea Party is not?
And I will actively campaign against the liberal if he gets the nomination.
/johnny
Not this TEA partier.
That’s great . . . we are supposed to support a 100%, dyed in the wool, committed, homosexual loving, abortion supporting, health care mandating, non-Christian, stinking liberal Democrat!
We’ve come a long way from Dole/McLame/Bush haven’t we?
The title is misleading SOP fodder coming from RomBots.
I was not aware that Michele Bachmann was the gold standard of the Tea Party? She did not do much for me
Sorry you are irrelevant. You are accepting Romney terms. And anyway no one leads me!
MORE MEDIA BS TELLING US WHAT WE WILL DO AND WHO OUR CANDIDATE SHOULD BE
TODAY IS THE DAY
GO OUT AND VOTE FOR NEWT IN ALL TODAY’S PRIMARIESS!!! AND DRAG 10 PEOPLE WITH YOU
Your vote is worth 100 times more today than normal- because SO FEW PEOPLE vote in primaries.
If JUST freepers show up, we can assure a Gingrich win!
Last election, in my district FIVE PEOPLE showed up to vote, all day long. (not 5 percent, 5 people)
Each of us can scare up 5 people without even trying
I just called my mom and brothers and sisters and none of them were even planning to vote today - probably some of my neighbors too.
CALL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
He is definitely NOT a TEA Party member . . . not with those credentials. This guy can go to hell.
Not this TEA partier!
I have said it before and I'll continue to say it...
Romney is NOT a conservative.
Romney is NOT even a moderate.
Romney is a northeast liberal Democrat masquerading as a Republican.
Romney can ride in on the Tea Party’s coattails, instead of the other way around. Let Romney deal with a conservative house and a republican senate witn a significant conservative caucus. No liberal judges, no stupid treaties, etc.
Okay, that’s it! I’m voting for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the other liberals. The Republicans really angered me now. Just to show them I’ll help re-elect Obama, by golly, and that’ll let them know how tough I am.
“Our job in the tea party movement is to cautiously but vigorously befriend Romney, while reserving the right to encourage him — continuously — to align more closely with our core values. This encouragement to align has already begun, and it will continue through and beyond election day.”
Vigorously befriend? What does that mean? He also goes on with some nonsense about "encouraging" Milt to align with us? Get real. He is already actively disassociating himself with the Right.
ATTENTION: ATTEMPTED CO-OP IN PROGRESS
Vote for Barak O’Romney? I don’t think so.
Tea Partiers are obviously RINO socialists...
TEA Party leader = oxymoron.
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