In Endorsement Switch, Tea Party’s Distaste for Romney

Ron Paul will lead a tea party split. TP is still hopping mad after the Senate GOP pushed them out onto an ice flow just before Christmas. Coming together behind Romney is more wishful thinking. They’ll need to run against Don Trump down the road though.

Since the Tea Party is doing everything to sabotage the election chances of others, it’s coming close to the time when the rest of us should do everything legal to sabotage the Tea Party, which is the kind of threat to America the Nazi Party was to Germany in the 1920′s. If you think that’s a real stretch consider the similarities: 1) lack of compromise, 2) threats to politicians who do not toe their line exactly, 3) anonymous donations up to $500,000 in size being laundered through the Tea Party and funneled to extremist candidates like Sharron Angle.

Romney = Snake Oil salesman.

Romney is paying a maximum 15% tax rate on the hundreds of millions he made as “Carried interest”. The voters have to stop being naive and demand his tax returns. An estimate of job losses while he milked millions from his private equity investments need to be made. It is estimated in tens of thousands.

Romney is not a job creator. Romney is a job destructor.

Get real! I’m a Tea Party man. ROMNEY is NOT a BIG GOVERNMENT man. He’s always been in the financial books and he’s helped Massachusetts, the Olympics, and many businesses go from financial meltdown to financial prosperity.

I’m PRO TP but that doesn’t mean I throw the poor, homeless, and elderly under the bus to cut all costs. Romney understands that and knows to put efficient and meaningful government into place rather than entitlement free for all luxury spending. Don’t be fooled people ROMNEY is more fiscally conservative than most but does it within reason. That’s true conservatism!

Only an Idiot would vote for Obama again.

“I don’t particularly want to see Romney, but … whether it’s Gingrich or Romney or whoever it is, we have got to get behind whoever it is,” said Jack Staver, a tea party activist in Atlanta.

And THIS, to me, is THE problem with politics. Even though a chump is presented, they will vote for him anyway, just to back the party. Wrong. What we need are some actual solution presenters and not these clowns. Who could vote for ANY of these guys willingly??

I’ll vote for Obama before I vote for RP. I can’t knowingly elect someone so obviously crazy.

The tea party wants what it wants, the majority is onto them and spend away with those anonymous donors and next they all tamper with our votes. And then at that time we have phased out our democracy and emerged into those third world despots. They switch gears when it suits them, they are dangerous, they are wolves in sheep clothing. Remember their cries against the president of death panels? And turn around and create an ideological nightmare that would create them that much faster?

I think it would kill ABC if they ever said anything nice about Mitt.

Perhaps the Progressive Neocons like Romney and Gingrich should start their own 3rd party ticket. Obama’s more neocon than those two.

As a true blue conservative and a Tea Party sympathizer, let me just say that anyone would be better than Obama. We will coalesce around the most conservative candidate that can win in November. Mitt Romney is looking more and more like he’ll be our guy. Let’s remember that Massachusetts is one of the most liberal states in the union. Elizabeth Warren has a good shot at being elected by those misguided souls…(Elizabeth Warren, for Pete’s sake, who’s one of the most clueless individuals in the country when it comes to how the economy works.) No govenor of that state could effectively lead with a truely conservative agenda. Romney will be forgiven for the MA health care disaster as soon as he demands the repeal of ObamaCare. As the campaign progresses, we’ll back Romney no matter what the pipedreams of liberals may be.

Poster who said that is the problem, they think they must back the party no matter what is 100% correct. And that is the problem. We do not look at the candidates or we vote let’s say a candidate is against abortion so that is why we vote for them, but don’t pay attention they are pro war, pro guns, pro taxes, etc. Get the religion out of politics #1, #2 stop the hate and anger and take some responsibility for ourselves ie living way beyond our means, wanting less government and then screaming for help to the government. #3 if we could get rid of lobbyists, perks for congress including raises to their alreay sky high salaries and stop giving money to other countries but we all know that will never happen.

WHO would vote for ANY of these candidates? They scream about this president but so far he looks way better than any of them. Only last week Gingrich was way ahead, now it’s Romney. No one polled me! This is a disgrace…all I see is mudslinging…no real ideas. BTW Romney’s healthcare is the same as Obamas.

In the end for me I am following William F Buckley’s pronouncement and nominating the most Conservative candidate that can win….if that is Mitt Romney so be it as I cannot and will not abide another 4 years with Obama……and others better wake up and smell the coffee or tea if that is the case and come together…..or they will have only themselves to blame…..JMO

I find it amusing that the pundits and the media tell me, as an independent voter and Tea Party supporter, who I will and will not support for President.

Considering I’ve never been polled or interviewed, I guess I’ll just have to follow theit wisdom and re-elect their champion of the people, Mr. Obama.

I think not. I will vote for ANYONE over the present occupant of the White House. Clear enough?

I would support Paul over Romney…but prefer Gingrich or even santorum .we dont need another john McCain …..we need someone who will oppose the status quo

The Tea Party is over! Will the last one out please turn off the lights. This is what they get for supporting Gingrich, an unelectable SOB! Their values are like flatulence in the wind!

Ron Paul? Are these people kidding? That whining, sniveling egotist would be a worse president than Obama, who is already the worst president in history. A president is a leader who respects other people’s views and creates coalitions to get things done. Paul doesnt have those skills and his mean-spirited vicious attacks on his fellow candidates using Axelrod’s opposition research show him to lack honor and integrity. I’m also sick of the fanatics who follow him and their ad hominem insults and inability to join the rest of us against the common enemy, the leftists who are destroying our country. When Paul loses, as he will, these lunatics will shrug their shoulders and stomp off in a rage to vote for a third party—effectively voting for Obama. No conservative who cares about this country would ever consider voting for that braying Losertarian megalomaniac.

If the Tea Party would support Ron Paul over Mitt Romney, they are CRAZY! Ron Paul would decimate our military, abandon Israel, and allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons — just to name a few of his non-conservative positions.

I used to admire the Tea Party people; but I’m beginning to think my admiration was misplaced!

I wonder if the Tea Party dislikes Romney for his supposed moderate views or that he’s a Mormon. Seems to me there is a fair amount of bias going on.

Don’t we need someone outside the mainstream? The last sentence makes me wonder. How are we going to reduce our debt with Democrat-Lite? Romney will not achieve what Tea Partiers want and what the nation needs.

The writer’s opinion and anecdotal eveident aside, here are the choices amongst the Iowa Tea Party, according to the latest NBC/Marist poll:

Santorum gets 20 percent from them, Romney and Paul 17 percent, Gingrich 16 percent, Perry 15 percent and Bachmann 10 percent.

So much for the notion of the Tea Party’s distaste for Romney. Data trumps opinon… sorry.

Third party can stop Romney. Another loss for the RINOs after McStupid’s ’08 loss might just finish off the GOP for good. The GOP is a sham party that provides the illusion of choice and serves as the media’s whipping boy. The GOP is the biggest impediment to libertarian conservatism, it cannot be reformed, it has to go. The Tea Party must disassociate completely from the GOP to avoid being co-opted and destroyed by them. Tea Party should continue to run third party candidates against the GOP wherever possible. In the short term the Democrats will benefit, but long term, once the GOP is finished off, a real conservative party can replace them.

It’s amazing to me that the TEA party (Taxed Enough Already) is willing to go to Gingrich, the ultimate insider, flip-flopper, big government, *federal* mandate candidate over Mitt Romney who is none of those things. Or Ron Paul who is about as Libertarian as you get. Ron Paul would be a fine candidate if he had any realistic ideas about economics and foreign policy.

It is understandable that the TEA partiers get behind Ron Paul… but to get behind Gingrich shows their hypocrisy.

One thing is certain. Even a cursory review of Mitt Romney’s record shows that he is a complete flip-flopper on the issues that matter to Republicans – particularly conservative Republicans. The only thing that is consistent about Romney is his ability to say anything voters want to hear. Does this man have any principles other than the pursuit of power? As governor of Massachusetts, he favored socialized medicine, abortion, and gay rights. Now he claims he doesn’t. I don’t think he has any real beliefs. What a shame Republicans can’t come up with a decent candidate who actually stands for something.

I voted for my last status quo neocon in the last election. I will either vote the constitution with Ron Paul, or I will write him in. The differences between neocons and liberal policies are shades of gray. Time to stop the welfare/warfare state and make America great again. Party over positions is how we got where we are, and I will no longer be part of the revolving door that’s pushes non constitution minded people into office.