Well, it’s official — it’s Rick Perry. At least unless/until Palin gets in, and maybe even then, because they want to win.
As Ed notes, Romney’s big draw was that he understood business and how to create jobs. His big problems are his volte-faces on issues and RomneyCare. He might have been able to surmount them without a strong challenger, but I think that he’s now toast, absent a real Perry implosion. And a lot of Tea Partiers are not going to go along with the traditional Republican “it’s my turn” candidate. Again, they want to win.
ErisGuy,
I mostly agree except I would say anyone in office or a position of public trust (or been so in the last six months) cannot run for any office.
>>You might want to read up on the original Boston Tea Party to understand.
I may not be well versed in current politics, but i do know my bits of history, thankyou.
Its a bad pick for a name, even if it just “happened”. And one struggles to find any relevant parallels to original “tea party” event ( which was not called that, at the time ) with the current movement, apart from the “we protest” bit.
And never will.
We will know in less than a month.
T.M., you just keep telling yourself those little lies. Many Tea Party voters are lifelong registered Democrats, and many have never been to a Tea Party event. Oh, the SocCons of the Republican Party are striving with all their might to claim the mantle- but they can’t fool those who have watched this movement; they can fool MainStream Media and leftists (pardon the redundancy) who want to demonize any opposition to their chosen one. I have enjoyed watching the left scramble to find a “Tea Party Leader.” A groundswell does not need a director or a figurehead to know its direction.
Stewart,
Sorry, nice spin, but it just doesn’t fit the data. How many of those elected to office on a Tea Party platform are Democrat? Answer: Zero.
If you statement had any grain of truth you would see some Democrat candidates who are Tea Party.
Reader,
Its actually a node by the Koch Brothers to their father, who promoted the Tea Party as the symbol of the John Birch Society.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=33&gs_id=1x&xhr=t&q=john+birch+society+tea+party+1959&pq=john+birch+society+tea+party&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=john+birch+society+tea+party+1959&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=1d753b302b4e010e&biw=800&bih=436
Wrong link
http://www.jbsvolunteers.org/the-news/135-the-john-birch-society-the-original-tea-party-movement