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Tea Party Nation Founder: ‘The Tea Party Will Never Rally Behind Mitt Romney’

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Tea Party Nation’s Judson Phillips appeared on Monday’s Martin Bashir and boldly declared, “The Tea Party will never rally behind Mitt Romney.”

“Really?” host Martin Bashir exclaimed. “Never?!”

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“Never!” Phillips reiterated. “I think I told you this before, we’ve done surveys on our site where it shows one third to one half of the Tea Party members will not vote for Mitt Romney if he is the nominee in the general election — which is probably going to encourage Team Obama to send out people to vote for Romney in the primaries. But Iowa is the first step in this whole process. A week from now we will be talking about New Hampshire, two weeks from now, we’ll be talking about South Carolina and three weeks from now we will talk about Florida.”

“In all the national polls, Newt Gingrich is still right up there at the top,” Phllips added. “He does well in South Carolina and Florida, of course, the other good news that will be coming out of this is at least one candidate is going to dropout. Since the conservative vote is so fragmented right now, whoever drops out, presumably Bachmann, her supporters are going to somewhere. Hopefully from my point of view, it will be Newt. Wherever they go, they’re going to help one of the conservative candidates.”

Phillips later said as the race goes on, we will see “this coalescing and it will be around Newt Gingrich. It will happen. Eventually it will send Mitt Romney to the showers.”

Watch Phillips trash Romney on Martin Bashir below via MSNBC:

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  • Anonymous

    First time in the history of the World, where the poor and middle class are fighting for the right of the rich to not pay taxes. The TP is made up of brainwashed Koch-sucke­rs.

  • Anonymous

    Great news – Helping President Obama achieve a 60-40 blow out!

  • Anonymous

    It’s official the tea party is a democrat plant — right baggers?

    The Tea Party died a year ago…

    They just keep twitching.

  • Anonymous

    The establishment republicans are making a mistake in pushing Romney. They did not learn there lesson in 2010. Yes the tea party has diminished since then but there are still too many of them. Each time they knock someone the conservatives like they expect Romney to get more votes to only have that support swing to a new candidate that was previously not doing well. Gringrich was too unpopular and never should have surged to the top tier but he did. Then Ron Paul and now Santorum. No the conservatives don’t want Romney.

  • Anonymous

    Two things that are dangerous to the Conservative/Tea Party Platform are facts and an educated voter.

  • Anonymous

    Fool!

  • Anonymous

    Drunken hobo knife fight.

    That’s all you need to know about all this.

  • Gloves Bob Donahue

    There are no leaders in the Tea Party. It’s a category of generally like -minded individuals.

    Anyone who says he speaks for them speaks only for himself.

  • Anonymous

    There are no leaders, only followers. 

    Trying to lead Tea Partiers is like trying to herd cats who are driving Medicare-financed Hoverrounds while bitching about the President’s birth certificate.
    The ones making money off the suckers aren’t leaders, they’re sheep shearers.

  • shonangreg

    Yes, you are right, Gloves, the Tea Party Nation is a scam, as is the Tea Party Patriots, the latter being nothing more than a lobbyist co-op.

  • Anonymous

    Please find a tissue and wipe your mouth because you are talking Shit!.

  • Mo Fokker

    “The following is a list of popular media sites which are a great place to start”

    How come you exclude Mediaite from your list?

  • Anonymous

    Amen.

  • Anonymous

    And so we see that the paranoid worldview that the mainstream GOP helped drum up to get the Teabags out to vote is–no surprise here–actually one that will hurt their cause. Dick Army & pals were never on the Teabag’s side, and half of what they told them in television appearances and at rallies were lies meant to freak them out (Obama’s a Muslim Socialist Commie Chavez whose death panel healthcare will destroy America, etc). The Repubs almost got away with it but they overplayed their hand because the Teabags still believe the b.s. they’ve been fed. Now they’ll split from the mainstream douches in the GOP and assure what they tried hardest to stop: Obama’s reelection.   

  • Just Ed

    Never listen to the dorks on Miserable Socialist Numb Brained Commentary network. 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, it’s best to only get your news from people who politically agree with you and then tell you what to be scared of, like the real geniuses of our time at Fox & Friends. 

  • Just Ed

    OH gosh, some Commie saboteur has been spiking their tea…little blue pills no doubt.

  • Anonymous

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  • Mo Fokker

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  • david r

    Reminds me of Goldwater vs. Rockefeller in ’64.  The right wing got their candidate, who got the shit beat out of him.  So ultimately, the right wing gave us LBJ instead of Nelson Rockefeller.  Of course, back then there were moderates in the GOP.   Romney is the only one with a chance, and now the right wing is taking a steamy whiz on him.  Four more years.

  • Anonymous

    Isn’t Newt a Rockefeller Republican?  Don’t tell that to the idiot tea baggers.

  • Anonymous

    Cuckoo!

  • Mo Fokker

    Damn. That is a let down.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Aaron is a paranoid schizophrenic.  

  • Mo Fokker

    I thought he was trolling for blog traffic/hits.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    No, I think he is bat guano insane. Only slightly more so than Gloves (Grammatico) or Stonepark… but crazy for sure.

  • Anonymous

    You need a new tin foil hat…..

  • Anonymous

    Holy crap, this guy’s on to us. Has he been reading our emails? Captain, PM me and let’s talk about next steps to deal with Aaron. I’ll be back in NSA HQ in an hour. 

  • Anonymous

    Back in the day the Moral Majority/Evangelical voters never (except for Reagan) really got a candidate they wanted, but at election time held their noses and voted for the Republican anyway. If Romney is the nominee it will be interesting to see in November, when push comes to shove, if the Tea Party will head to the polls with nostrils firmly clamped shut.

  • Anonymous

    This is true, but the establishment knows a good number of them will hold their noses in order to end the disastrous progressive presidency of Obama.  Tea party folk ought to prepare to affect their style of change through congress and state legislatures – from positions closer to and more responsive to the will of the people, and realize they shouldn’t look towards the “imperial presidency” as the office most suited to bring about an end to big government’s reign.

    Still, the primary season has only just begun.  There’s no need to throw in the towel so soon and accede to Romney’s coronation.

  • Anonymous

    Palin is CIA. We all know that. She’s played the electorate like a stradivarius in the hands of a paranoid schizophrenic. 

  • Anonymous

    When the personality that designed it takes over, would you have him make the change? 

  • Anonymous

    This is a Tea Party guy that got behind Newt Gingrich and bashes anyone who’s not Newt on MSNBC.  He speaks for Judson Phillips and his vision of the Tea Party, which is embodied in the one guy perhaps most unsuited to the principles held by majority of those who identify with the tea party.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I feel bad for the kid.  Hope he gets help.

  • Anonymous

    How do you know he’s not trolling for hits? If he’s not, he definitely needs help. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The first few weeks I believed it to be parody of right wing conspiracy. He’s been pushing this same story for more than six months now (estimated). He has posted it under multiple accounts thousands of times across a wide range of sites. The story is little changed. His actions smack of delusion.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Ron Paul has the only message to listen to.. it’s time for change. Real change!
    In that respect I either vote Paul or I dont vote.

    Guess it’s four more years of Obama because the way I hear it.. RINOs think the same. They even seem to dislike Paul more.. least Obama will let them continue wars.

    I can’t continue supporting foreign wars is my MAIN concern.. nor supporting foreign countries that have taken all our manufacturing jobs. Watching rights stripped away and dollar falling as the banks get bailed out and the FED prints more money.

    It’s the guy for America ONLY and for smaller Government or no one in the OLD Republican clan.

    I quit on supporting a party thats behind the times and push WAR agendas over diplomacy and spew lies about the only honest man in the campaign. Paul WILL fight for America when needed, just not for corporate profit and taxing the American People to bankruptcy.

    Obama sure aint no winner in my book.. more of a sellout.. but my no vote for any is a vote for Obama. Media control might just make me sit the election out in the end. Back to same old same old and I just will not buy into it any longer.

    Ron Paul 2012 and Beyond…
    Stop..listen and read what this man truely does stand for!

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party Nation has always been hostile to Mitt, but that doesn’t mean the tea party is. I see some anti-Mormon bigotry in Judson Philips that has little to do with Mitt. He should be ashamed, and his bitter tears after Romney wins should delight the fair minded.

    Independence Hall Tea Party just endorsed Mitt Romney today, and for good reason!

    Mitt 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Personally I think this clown is an obama plant,after all he did appear on messnbc with the extrodinary leftist,socialist,martin bashir…that should tell it all

  • Anonymous

    BRAIN FROZEN IN TIME

  • Anonymous

    hey,remember Goldwater,a rock solid conservative….got destroyed…learn from history

  • Anonymous

    Mitt “Megatron” Romney needs to get his Starscreams under control. 

  • Anonymous

    Various Tea Party factions are abandoning high taxes and government spending — something that only Dr. Ron Paul and, if she were running, Sarah Palin are addressing — and focusing on social conservatism and empire building. I’m ignoring these chumps, because they’re supporting Big Government Progressives like Newt Gingrich since he never went about his Big Government policies under the Democrat Party banner like Mitt Romney or Rick Perry.

  • DoNotMindMe

    The government should learn how to PROPERLY spend money before they ask for more! I am in the lower middle class and I still feel that the government doesn’t have an automatic right to anyone’s money, poor or rich, especially if they are going to spend said money in a reckless idiotic manner. When you give a politician your money they will always think of their best interests / political status / personal wealth before you. I don’t get why liberals trust the government so much … 

  • Anonymous

    The Tea Party Chickens are coming home to roost. Karma. 

  • Anonymous

    Frankly, I’m deeply disappointed that Ron Paul has completely run off the rails with his foreign policy positions. I say disapppinted because his domestic policies on the economy are precisely what this nation desperately needs. 

    Look at this interview of Ron Paul 23 years ago (1988). He had it right then and he’s still right today (Video – 8 min, 42 sec)…   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0735005ItY

    When we allowed bankers to take over control of the issuance of our currency, at that moment we became slaves of an elite, super wealthy banking class that now dominates every aspect of our lives – including the worthless, do-no-good political class. And this includes “Conservatives” of the corrupt GOP power elite.

    “Let me issue and control a Nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.”
    ~ Baron Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild

    “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
    ~ Thomas Jefferson

    We are slaves and we pay these bankers with the sweat of our labor to produce the chains we wear like obedient sheep. 

  • Anonymous

    What depths of irrelevancy must you be tapping to bring up Goldwater when Reagan was elected 16 years on?

  • Anonymous

    This is as I will do and have been doing. I voted McCain and went home and threw up. But I don’t think some of these Tea Party people will do so. Commenters on here also don’t seem to understand we are talking only about a few Tea Party people. I can’t figure out what it means to be Tea Party in a liberals mind either. I am accused of being one all the time.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    The tea party will do whatever the Kochs and the GOP ruling class want – if not, they get their funding and promotion yanked. Then they’ll have to fight for publicity the same way true grassroots protesers do. And don’t count on these middle-aged, fat Boomers to get out of their lawn chairs and organize.
    If the TP doesn’t fall in line, the GOP elite will see to it that no one hears about it.
    You’ll notice the baggers have been vewy, vewy quiet during the Romney nomination quest – and it’s by design.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans are really in trouble if they can’t get what’s left of the teabaggers to rally behind their nominee Romney.   On April 15 FOX will push the teabaggers into unifying behind their nominee with their star studded list of celebrities including Palin, Bachmann, Herb and Dick Morris.  

  • Anonymous

     Iowa is the first step in this whole process. A week from now we will be talking about New Hampshire, two weeks from now, we’ll be talking about South Carolina and three weeks from now we will talk about Florida. It has been very entertaining since they started dancing. And Judson Phillips boldly declared, “The Tea Party will never rally behind Mitt Romney.” This fringe element has proven they are out to kill every act or legislation that would give president Obama any positive publicity. Boasting for Newton Leroy Gingrich is so far off-base, it laughable this radical fringe will coalesce and make any influence. We do know the TEA party will field numerous candidates in local, state and nationally including John Boehner, the Speaker. Eric Cantor wants this job, and he’s made no bones about how he’ll get it. The TEA party became the thrust behind the change post election of president Obama, and they still want to make changes. They have openly waged war on local, state and national level candidates including Boehner himself. They will float candidates all over America at the local level and state level because they know that’s where the real change will be most effective, as that’s where the real power will rise. That election gave us the confrontational army president Obama has encountered and which has spear-headed the fringe activity towards controlling the election processes. The primary elections are run by state and local governments, while caucuses are private events run by the political parties. A state primary election usually is an indirect election: instead of voters directly selecting a particular person running for president, it determines how many delegates to each party’s national convention each candidate will receive from the state. In many states, only voters registered with a party may vote in that party’s primary, known as a closed primary. It is tantamount and expressly important that every registered voter in every state get involved in their state’s electoral process at every level, local, state and nationally, and make an effort to clean out the Toxic Erratic Activist(TEA) Party.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    and now the right wing is taking a steamy whiz on him.

    sorry

    Just had to say it again.

    : )

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Thank You Mr Judson Phillips, for confirming myself, and millions of other Tea Party Patriotic American conservatives, who are absolutely against that liberal moderate mush Republican RINO Obama-lite elitist..  and if some Republican conservatives in Iowa, votes for Romney, then they mine as well just vote for Obama, as they, Romney and Obama, are exactly the same in their implementation of policies and programs, and their lying political propaganda about all of it, as they just represent opposite political party’s, but everything else is the same.. Mass. the State of Liberalism, the State of Ted Kennedy, the State of Barney Franks, and the State of Mitt Romney, and you want to elect the Gov. from there..  especially this slick willie lying 2 faced hypocrite forced mandated State Socialized Medicine Romneycare loving Gov.. 
    Need I say more..

  • Anonymous

    Kinda funny. When romney was running around campaigning for tea party candidates, giving them money nobody cared. Nice way to say thanks. Ungrateful if you ask me. And to say gingrich is the one? Really? Where was he durring the mid term elections?…oh thats r.ight campaigning for gop insiders who were faced with teaparty primary challenges. Romney has alot of endorcements from congress because everyone gingrich supported got shamed out of office just like he did. Tea Party dig your own graves if you must.

  • Anonymous

    I always said it was just the same old establishment Republicans and former Moral Majority evangelicals taking advantage of people’s outrage over spending and the economy to get votes.  In other words, it’s the same old big government Republicans that want to take away personal freedoms pretending to be for small government and personal liberty.  LOL

  • Anonymous

    So who exactly do you expect them to vote for if Romney gets the nomination?

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    I don’t plan for defeat, and I don’t cross the bridge before I get there..  If Tea Party folks all across America, in these Primaries, do not vote for Romney, he will never get the Republican Party Nomination.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

     An excellent summation!  The TP was diverse, but mostly made up of pensioned military retirees and struggling businessmen, all of them suffering from Limbaughitis. The TP died for lack of common goals.
    But times are changing, and those “leaders” who don’t change with them will find themselves no longer leaders.
    Ron Paul will be a Great President.

  • Anonymous

    This guy is a phony, they wouldn’t vote for Romney a Big Govt guy, but they’ll definitely support Newt a big Govt. guy. This is why in my opinion the tea-party folks are phonies. They’ve got no clue. 

  • Anonymous

    The unspoken reason relates to differences of religious belief between evangelicals and mormons.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BYJGBCNJCKC6VZWZBLGUBHJ6NM Denoir

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  • Anonymous

    What is even sadder is that you read the comments and then feel compelled to respond with babbling nonsense.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    .
    computer virus alert.

    Don’t Go There.

  • Anonymous

    ObamasOsama: Learn how to make a non-pixellated image for your “website” and then come back to spout nonsense.

    Mencius, Captain, I’m on board with SpecOp “Bury the Truth.”  Awaiting further commands from Overlord Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Right.  Let the Market decide everything, especially when it comes to human rights.  Great idea.

    Walmart will always do what’s in the best interest of the nation, and if they don’t, the Market will fix it.

  • Anonymous

    Naw.  There’s a guy by name of Dolph Hitler out there, stirring around impatiently.

  • Anonymous

    I see you have bought in to the progressive Obama indoctrination propaganda…. Only half of those that actually WORK, pay taxes.  The rich pay most.  The upper 2% pay the mostest.  So, whats the problem Captainpop?  How much more do you want from the rich?  

  • Anonymous

    Popcorn, you’re the one that needs a new tin foil.  What you have posted is not even truthful.

  • Anonymous

    LMBO, human rights as in Marxist agendas?

  • Anonymous

    LMBO!  Do you really believe the TP consists of only GOP members?!!  Sounds as if the TP has you a bit worried.  Afraid of another 2010 repeat?  Better be!!

    Hurray for the HONEST American patriots, the Koch brothers who provide the private sector with thousands of jobs….On-the-other-hand, how about that George Soros, Bob?  You know, the Jew turned Nazi, who helped send hundreds of his own people off to death camps (and said on national TV he has no remorse) and who also happens to own, the whole democrat party and many media outlets?

  • Anonymous

    Quote
    The TP died for lack of common goals.End QuoteJust keep thinking that Charles….. BTW, what do you have against military retirees and struggling business men?

  • Anonymous

    Keep on thinking that Popcorn!

  • Anonymous

    Nice meme, very clever.  Yeah, Marxist agendas such as the CRA, DADT. 

  • Anonymous

    Dear Tea Party Leaders.

    As an early supporter of the Tea Party and a longtime leader in
    the Republican party in Florida, I would be remiss if I did not tell you how
    very disappointed I am in how you have turned from bringing important issues to
    the forefront (that so many supported), into destruction of Republican
    candidates because they don’t fall into line with your litmus test. You are
    putting our Country in harms’ way by helping Obama to another term.  If
    your mission has changed from issues… and you insist on endorsing that is fine.
    What isn’t fine is to tear down the other candidates.

    I speak for many many activists when I tell you that The Tea
    Party is losing credibility across the country. That to me is a shame because
    when you were sticking to your original formation you were effective, not
    looked at as radical and the proof was in the 2010 election.  My point now
    is proof by looking at the polls nationally about what the  public thinks
    about the effectiveness of the Tea Party. You are perceived as “move on.org”
    only to the far right.  By the way I am a Conservative.

    What you have to say about Mitt Romney or any other candidate
    you don’t agree with, is not dignified…it is just what the far left wants you
    to do. You are giving all your critics plenty of fodder.  I am sure that
    President Reagan would be very disappointed at the behavior you are exercising.
    It is in complete contrast as to how Ronald Reagan handled those he did not
    agree with. In all cases he was a gentleman and because he showed true
    leadership he won!

    The article that you sent out about Governor Romney is not only
    not true, but it is mean spirited and insulting to any thinking person whomever
    they support. I thought you and your leaders were better than this and actually
    put our country first. How disappointing it is that you would rather be a
    headline grabber at any cost and be an embarrassment to so many good Americans
    who are truly looking for leaders that lead above the fray. What you have shown
    is that you are the fray and that is very sad.

    If you would rather be right than have a new President continue
    what you are doing and you are assuring this President another 4 years….and
    costing this country to lose. But you will have shown your so perceived “power”
    albeit it will be short lived and at a terrible cost to all of us.

    Please won’t you rethink this rhetoric for the sake of America?

    Sincerely,

    Anita Mitchell

     

    Anita
    K. Mitchell

    The
    Mitchell Group

    2829
    Embassy Drive

    West
    Palm Beach, Fl.

    33401

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DSMDUTRYHNI5MAHIEZEEH74WGU pburd

    If you truly believe this, you are ill informed, massively ignorant or intentionally parroting liberal talking points

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DSMDUTRYHNI5MAHIEZEEH74WGU pburd

     Judson Phillips and teapartynation.com  does not represent the Tea Party. They are a right wing, social issue driven organization cloaked in the Tea Party banner. The true Tea Party patriots will vote for who they believe will adhere to the founding TP principles.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DSMDUTRYHNI5MAHIEZEEH74WGU pburd

    I have been saying this, not so eloquently, everywhere I can. Thank you anitatmg for reinforcing my belief that the true Tea Party activists are alive and well and will not associate themselves with hate groups like TPN. 

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