Tea Party Group ‘FreedomWorks’ Aims To Stop Mitt Romney Campaign

by Alex Alvarez | 10:25 am, May 25th, 2011

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FreedomWorks, an influential Washington-based group working within the Tea Party movement, has devoted itself to pursuing a specific goal: Stop. Mitt. Romney. Why? According to the group’s communications director, it’s because “Romney has a record and we don’t really like it that much.” Specifically, that likely means concerns over Romney’s approval of a 2006 law mandating health care coverage in Massachusetts and the perception that the former Massachusetts governor is “inauthentic,” at least according to Brendan Steinhauser, the group’s liaison to smaller, grassroots organizations.

The group, led by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey economist Matt Kibbe, is also concerned about the Tea Party movement fragmenting over different votes unless a clear alternative to Romney emerges. But, as of now, the group doesn’t see that happening. Says Steinhauser:

You can’t divide the vote in the primary and end up with, you know, who? Newt Gingrich? Mitt Romney? Somebody’s got to beat those guys. I think it’s important that we really point out the flawed candidates and brand them as such and point out who are the people we consider unacceptable.

Ouch.

So… what will happen to the Tea Party, and its influence and voting power, should Romney eventually win the GOP nomination?

h/t Huffington Post

FreedomWorks, Mitt Romney, Tea Party

http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

TEA Party will vote in 2012… bank on it…
tatboy

Mitt will do that for them…
LibertySister

This is too bad.
He is really the only one that can beat Obama.
Especially if he gets Marco Rubio for vice.

We will have Obama with his unions and entitlement crowd for another four years.
Azarkhan

When Massachusetts launched its reform program in 2006, it already had the highest medical costs in the nation. Today, the burden is still rising far faster than wages or inflation, from those already lofty levels. A report from that state attorney general in March — remember, this is a Democratic administration — asked rhetorically “Can we expect the existing health-care market in Massachusetts to successfully contain health-care costs?” The report concluded, “To date, the answer is an unequivocal ‘no.’”

http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/massachusetts_healthcare_reform.fortune/index.htm

Sarah Palin will soon enter the race and it will come down to Palin vs. Romney. Palin will skewer him on Romneycare. All she has to do is point out how Romneycare is financially crippling Massachusetts.
valkyrie101

If the tea party is not represented by the republican party, they will go third party. And that is disaster for the repubs. Look at the house race in NY yesterday. The third party tea party candidate, Davis, caused a repub loss in a normally repub district. That may happen all over the nation if the tea party feels it is not represented by the repubs.
skyfet

Freedomworks is the GOP’s version of the teaparty.
Kitsune

LibertySister said:
This is too bad.He is really the only one that can beat Obama.Especially if he gets Marco Rubio for vice. We will have Obama with his unions and entitlement crowd for another four years.

More importantly, We’ll have Cass Sunstein stifling and shutting down businesses for 4 more years.
http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

valkyrie101 said:
The third party tea party candidate, Davis, caused a repub loss in a normally repub district.

Davis was posing as a TEA Party candidate…
he was widely denounced by TEA Party activists in the area..
Just4thekoolaid

the tea party is going to ruin the election for the republicans by choosing someone like Bachman or Palin instead of someone like Huntsmen or Romney
tatboy

LibertySister said:
This is too bad.He is really the only one that can beat Obama.Especially if he gets Marco Rubio for vice. We will have Obama with his unions and entitlement crowd for another four years.

And as long as Obama is prez NO right to work non-union state can have any jobs. Because the govt should be making those kind of decisions.
ProudCanadian

Wow, so the Republican party is turning on each other? How did they let such a fringe group of looneys like the tea party have so much say? Maybe they’d be better to just cut them loose, and let them evaporate on their own.
jakester

Azarkhan said:
When Massachusetts launched its reform program in 2006, it already had the highest medical costs in the nation. Today, the burden is still rising far faster than wages or inflation, from those already lofty levels. A report from that state attorney general in March — remember, this is a Democratic administration — asked rhetorically “Can we expect the existing health-care market in Massachusetts to successfully contain health-care costs?” The report concluded, “To date, the answer is an unequivocal ‘no.’”

http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/massachusetts_healthcare_reform.fortune/index.htm

Sarah Palin will soon enter the race and it will come down to Palin vs. Romney. Palin will skewer him on Romneycare. All she has to do is point out how Romneycare is financially crippling Massachusetts.

Another Palin delusion, please, Palin is not going to get the nomination, much less win the presidency. Besides the teasappers, who else will vote for that fool?
timcajun

skoorbekim says:
TEA Party will vote in 2012… bank on it…
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You had better. Crazy and hate does sell, but no change and all broken promises!!!???
greg454

The Tea Party aren’t loonies, they are PATRIOTS fighting to restorer America to the principles of capitalism and freedom that made her a great country once before a-holes like FDR, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon turned it into a big government fiasco. For the GOP to remain relevant, they need to listen to the Tea Party. After all, the Marxists now control the DNC, they may not call themselves Marxists but crap if crap whether you call it caca or dodo.
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/
hyenas

The MSM needs to get it straight (MSNBC did in the Tea Party’s infancy, but not now), FreedomWorks is not affiliated with the grassroots Tea Party. Those millions of people are dedicated to Ron Paul. FreedomWorks is the “top-down,” corporate controlled BS and true tea partiers know. Real change will not come from the Top down. It will come from those at the bottom rising up.
http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

FreedomWorks has already declared they intend a “hostile takeover” of the GOP, now they’re trying to drive one of the few electable GOP candidates out of the race.

If you’re a GOP partisan, Freedomworks and the TPers they control are a threat to your party and will do in 2012 what they did in NY-26: help elect a Dem.

The TP “patriots” are so apoplectic about Obama, they’re going to help elect him to four more years.

The solution for GOP partisans is to discredit Freedomworks, which actually isn’t that hard. Some ideas in the posts here:

http://24ahead.com/s/freedomworks

Start at the “bless” post.
joe7

Romney took the state approach that conservatives seem to love so much. They seem less inclined to appose authority based reaches and power grabs as long as they are on the state level. This is completely contradictory to the mindset they hold in regards to state vs federal powers. They might disagree with what Romney did in his state, but it still follows state power guild lines and is different than a federal mandate.
valkyrie101

skoorbekim said:
Davis was posing as a TEA Party candidate…he was widely denounced by TEA Party activists in the area..

OK. But the notion of third party candidates effecting races does not escape you, right?
timcajun

greg454 says:
For the GOP to remain relevant, they need to listen to the Tea Party. After all, the Marxists now control the DNC, they may not call themselves Marxists but crap if crap whether you call it caca or dodo.
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For the GOP to remain relevant! You forget to remind them in NY 26th! You are right crap is crap, spin is spin and lies are lies!
Megan

Romney advisors helped Obama craft ObamaCare! Foxnews just reported this Oct. 11th. If this does not show the american people who this man really is, we are in trouble. Romneycare and obamacare. It looks like Romney has been working with this president covertly and trying to fool the american people, destroy the GOP at the same time. Romeny is a carbon copy of Obama with just a different political label. Romney is trying to use the states rights card by saying it is up to the states, but in really Romney and his advisors worked with Obama on the national level to have nationalized healthcare and total socialism. Romney needs to be stopped and knocked out of the campaign for the GOP own good and for the good of the nation. Romney needs to be exposed and then dealt with harshly to get out of the race and leave america alone.