Ah, the Tea Party coming home to roost. And the GOP has nobody to blame but themselves.

Mitt’s right.  Regardless of what some activist who started a Tea Party group says, the Tea Party is a broad collection of groups, you may as well call them baseball fans (but then you’d have some only liking certain teams).   Most of the Tea Party will be just fine with Mitt or just about any other candidate.    The whole point of the primaries is to challenge the different candidates but end up with a single candidate for the convention, then the real election begins.  

Lets be honest here. The tea party has a problem with Mitt because he is a Mormon. The tea party has a problem with Obama because he is black .

Look, I know you baggers and cons have very different views on how this country should move forward, but I have to wonder do you REALLY like this guy? are you comfortable with him?  I mean I hate him more and more everytime I see him and didn’t expect that.  ALL  and I mean ALL of the other nuts on the right are more likeable than this guy is.  He comes off as a liar, a prick, demeaning to women (reporters), his laugh is so phony.. i mean he’s such a freaking fraud and stiff!

Can you type the word Obama without the word black in the same sentence?

Don’t project your uneasiness with minorities onto others.

GoneRouge, I don’t want to personally “like” a President, I just want him/her to do a good job.  Whether he’s phony, cold, hip, or likes good movies is irrelevant to me.

I don’t want my mechanic to be likable, I just want him to fix my car!

All politicians suck and they’re ALL liars. 

Which is why I scratch my head over why liberals want them to have MORE control over our lives.

Tea Party = Republican Party, or in other words it’s just a re-branding effort after Bush II ruined what little credibility they ever had, which isn’t saying much.

It works for the media to perpetuate this myth of the Tea Party, but 80% self-identify as Republicans and 92% voted Republican in the last election so spare me.
   

Too bad you don’t know what you’re talking about, but I find that commonplace among the Left.

Are there no proof readers at this site?

I’m not even going to point out the glaring error, suffice to say you need to close quotations and Santorum isn’t involved in this story. This is sloppy and hopeless. Why must every piece have glaring errors?

The last election, we nominated “the most electable” Republican and look where that got us! The Republican ruling class really doesn’t know what the citizens want or need and they continually push the Romneys, McCains, and GHW Bushes on the party and then wonder why people are disgusted with the party. I REMEMBER how they treated Reagan when he and GHW Bush were candidates and I find it laughable that the “ruling class” now has such a selective memory about RWR. 

I’d like to see Gingrich as President with Santorum or Allen West as VP, Palin as Secretary of Energy, and Romney as Treasury Secretary. Romney is not Presidential material- he talks a lot, but he is a bean counter. He may “say” he’ll repeal Obamacare, but, in the end, he won’t do it- he’ll “compromise” somehow and not get it done. Also, I wouldn’t trust his nominations to the courts- they’ll turn out like David Souter (John Sununu’s pick, appointed by GHW Bush).

We will live to regret it if Romney is the GOP nominee. Mark my words.

Regardless of what the usurper KOCH Suckers say, Ron Paul founded the first tea party back on December 16,  2007,
right after he raised six million dollars in one day online with the
 ”Remember, Remember, the fifth of November!” money bomb.  At least half of the disilusionados identified with the Tea Parties are Dr. Paul supporters.

That said, the Republican effort to corral the Tea Party mustangs has been a dismal failure,as they will ind out tonight!!!

Ron Paul WILL BE a Great President!

I Always thought it was the conservatives trying to control our lives. Womens body’s ,who one can marry and what I can smoke.

Titsy, I actually know of a group that allows its members to carry a card indicating that their intellect is above the norm…and every member of this group that I have known, in bright red and bright blue states…is a liberal…..I have “known” members in New York, Tennessee and Arizona…I would not consider that “commonplace”…I am 34 and have had one of these cards since I was 18…..Not “commonplace” at all my dear….

I guess if he keeps saying it he may convince himself.  Forget the Tea Party, most Americans are not part of that movement.  Romney does not appeal to most Americans especially the devout Christians!  Unfortunately for him the Mormon issue is a big deal breaker.

Average income or lower income Americans just won’t relate to this candidate. “Corporations are People”

NOT!

Membership in a group like Mensa does not confer critical thinking skills any more than a high SAT score does- good try, though. I have always found that people who need a “card” to establish their “intelligence” have lacerated egos and little else.

Rick Santorum has a long history of being a major player in the inside the beltway Lobbyist game. 

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Yeah, 12voltman1 unfortunately there are factions of the party who are like that. 

I look at it as a whole though.  All in all, the Democrats believe in protecting us from ourselves through legislation and bureaucracies. 

I’m no fan of the Nanny State, and that applies to conservatives who advocate it also.

Yeah, 12voltman1 unfortunately there are factions of the party who are like that. 

I look at it as a whole though.  All in all, the Democrats believe in protecting us from ourselves through legislation and bureaucracies. 

I’m no fan of the Nanny State, and that applies to conservatives who advocate it also.

I don’t agree. The tea party was a grass roots movement that included libertarians, independents, republicans and democrats. When it began to grow it began to be taken over by conservatives and democrats and liberal independents began to drop out. Even today you could more easily say Tea Party = Libertarian. It is the libertarian portion of the republican party and nearly took over the republican party. The establishment republicans are still fighting it tooth and nail.

So, would the Tea Party Romney be against an intrusive Big Govt that tried to force a white woman job applicant raped by a black pizzaman to give birth to his baby?

If it doesn’t have anything to do with generating page hits, it’s doesn’t hold value.  So just get to bashing politicians you don’t like already!

Too bad I can’t like only your first paragraph.  Gingrich is a false alternative to Romney, being a similar “party approved candidate,” but one which hails from Washington and not from outside it.

Mitt is right.  Everyone knows there is no chief of the tea parties.  Palin, Rush and any number of other parasites have tried to latch on to them but they are generally independent.

No, we didn’t nominate the most electable.  A lot of you got fooled and voted for McCain.  Romney was and still is the most electable.

McCain’s inept response to the sudden financial crisis doomed him, the election had been a toss up until that point.  With Romney’s business experience, and Obama’s lack of any experience, Romney would have had an excellent chance of winning in 2008 if he’d been the nominee.

That’s true. No offense against my conservative friends, but they keep passing along these same errant talking points over and over. They misdiagnose the 2008 election and then apply it to the current situation.

In the end, even the baggers will vote for Romney.

Doesn’t it become a game of semantics if 92% of you vote Republican? Or is it similar to my own case where I end up voting for weak-kneed punk Democrats who roll over for Republicans, corporations, or anything else that moves frankly, because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate? 

The main difference between me and them is I’ve been beating this drum for thirty years and as far as I can tell the “Tea Party” managed to hold their Hooverite deficit peacock outrage in check over twelve years of Reagan/Bush tripling the debt and eight years of Bush II doubling it without a peep.

But now the existential threat to our civilization after a year or two of a Democrat in office is debt?.

The Tea Party has become irrelevant, just look at Michele Bachmann!!

The Republican establishment OPPOSES Gingrich, which is a plus for me.

The GOP “powers that be” consistently screw up candidate selections because they forget the lessons that good football coaches and generals know- if you go into the game or battle only to play defense, you’ll lose. 

I think you’re wrong. Romney is, by all accounts, a good man, but he’s not a strong candidate. Someone said he often reminded him of a car salesman when caught in a lie- couldn’t agree more. His personality is too much “son of a famous father” to project strength and leadership. 

I held my nose and voted for McCain. He is not, by personality and experience, a leader- again, the “son of a famous father,” his MOS was individual and singular, not one where men would follow him. I respect his service, but I understand his personality.

I think Obama will make mincemeat of Romney in debates, and the DNC is just waiting to paint Romney as 1) a member of a “cult” (LDS) and 2) some combination of Thurston P. Howell and Danny DeVito’s character in “Other People’s Money.” Don’t think Axelrod isn’t champing at the bit to get started. I’ve already seen the Mormon stuff begin on this very website!

No it is not semantics at all when you view the struggle between establishment Republicans and the Tea Party. The race is wide open this time because of the difference between the Tea Party, Libertarians and the establishment republicans. In the end will they all vote for the Republican candidate? Yes but it will be a vote against Obama not for the candidate. BTW the Tea Parties have been going on for years with many of us on the right screaming about the debt as well. For myself it has been about 40 years to your 30. Neither party has offered a decent candidate in the time I have been old enough to vote.

He consistently polls better against Obama than anyone else. We don’t have much to go on other than polls, although people throw out a lot of suppositions. Instead of pulling behind Romney early on and beating Obama later, the tea party types are involved in a destructive path which will end probably in defeat for the Republicans. They will either not vote for Romney en masse at election time or will nominate someone un-electable like Santorum. Gingrich smells to high heaven and he is hurting the Republican brand. Plus all the arguing has driven down the Republican polls against Obama. Hopefully, Romney can find a way to finesse the tightrope.

I’m not at all worried about Obama beating Romney in a debate. Obama has a record to run on now.

Tan, I’m sorry for the sloppy mistake…I think a lot of people had Santorum on the brain today.

No, laura they arent looking at his record. They are just pissed that Sara Palin isnt running.

As gov he didnt grow the debt, he shrunk it, he ballanced the budget and created a rainy day fund. With health care he didnt create a government option, it was all private insurance, he didnt change everyones coverage, he added coverage for uninsured.

No, what they dont like about his record is that he did it while working with the otherside, one of the TEA PARTIES BIGGEST GRIPES AGAINST OBAMA WHEN THE TEA PARTY WAS GEARING UP was that they were doing everything behind closed doors and excluded republicans. In fact that one of the main reasons why they are so against the health care law they didnt have a say in it.

Obama could have done it in a way that the whole country could agree on, but instead he listened to the left and just jammed what ever they could down our throats because they controled the house and the senate. They are against Romney because they wont be able to oull him to the extreame right when ever they want their wet dreams to come true.

The Tea Party people that do support Romney are the ones that see him as a leader that will convince both side of what the best course of action is through persuasion, discussion, lodgic, facts and NOT partisonship

No laura they arent looking at his record. They got their head so far up their own butts they cant see anything past their own crap!

This day will go down in history as the day “Mitt killed the Tea Party”.

By the way, that big donation party for Ron Paul was all Libertarians. You know, that party that already existed long before the KOCH brothers invented the “tea party”. You know, the one that nominated Ron Paul for president back in the day.

The “tea party” was then coopted by Palin and Bachmann on behalf of social conservatives who no longer have televangelists to lead them. Rick Santorum is the new face of the “tea party” now. And when he eventually loses to Mitt Romney, the “movement” will finally be wiped away like yesterday’s news.

Since they are just fund raising machines, existing to fill the pockets of their leaders, and push for corporate control of government, I agree “tea party” groups will be “just fine.” 

But at least the pretense that they are some kind of rising up of Americans who “want their country back from the Socialists” will be tired and exposed as baseless propaganda. They will eventually come under the wing of Mitt Romney, and even if they don’t, they will continue to vote for Republican candidates rather than rightwinger from third party movements.

They still own at least one Supreme Court justice and a number of House Republican radicals.

I’m a left-leaning Centrist, but I’ve got to agree with “TitzyFritzensimmons” on this one.

Nevertheless, aside from yourself, a large plurality of conservatives are FOR the so-called “War on Drugs”; they are FOR eliminating Roe v Wade; they are FOR blue laws outlawing liquor sales on Sundays; they are FOR using the military for police services; they are FOR banning marriage/adoption by gays; they are FOR banning gays from the military or “don’t ask/don’t tell”; they are FOR all of the ticky-tack traffic laws that squeeze hard earned money out of working people; they are FOR allowing corporations to use unlimited amounts of money to flood our airwaves with anonymous and often disingenuous attacks on political opponents; they are FOR eliminating the right of private citizens to organize in Labor Unions; they are FOR government licensing for certain groups such as doctors, pharmacists and lawyers to prevent private citizens from making their own health-care choices; they are FOR forcing non religious students to sit through prayers and pledges of allegiances; they are FOR reducing a woman’s right to sue their employers for discrimination; and they are FOR allowing corporations the right to take away the rights of individual citizens based on nothing else but their race or religion through denial of service.

All funded by the Koch brothers, and all voting Republican.

If the “tea party” are Ron Paul supporters, you may have an argument.

But they aren’t. They are mostly social conservatives. And they are almost all on the dole from the Koch brothers. And they tend to always vote Republican.

Sorry James *blush* thank you for fixing it. I didn’t want my snappy comment to be actually read by the author, particularly such a handsome young liberal man? Hint hint; upload a photo!

All Mediaite needs is someone with fresh eyes to read every story before hitting publish, is all. There is often naming mistakes and small grammatical errors and I know how impossible it is to find it within your own work or similar. I need a second job; I’ll do it for a small fee! :)
seriously tho…I think all the readers here would likely agree on the mistakes within articles? Something we can finally ALL agree on?

If you can find a spine to borrow, run your mouth like that in public.

You must have pulled that opinion out of a CrackerJack box.

Paulbot website whines, “REJECT THE TEA PARTY” http://www.dailypaul.com/178341/reject-the-tea-party

To Get Ron Paul’s Insanity, You Have To Understand Libertarianism
“Libertarianism is to authentic conservatism what Barack
Obama is to 19th century liberalism”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/to_get_ron_paul_you.html#ixzz1i5mU4gpM

Romney is a rogue who has gate-crashed into a Tea-Partiers party but no one has the guts to kick him out. So instead the partiers are leaving their get together discreetly and they go home. They won’t hold another party or meeting, they will stay mum till after the November election. Win or lose Romney is going to be attached by this gang.

sad but true

sad but true