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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:55 PM Sep 2012

Tea Party Leaders Beg Grassroots GOP To Keep The Faith



In increasingly desperate emails to their supporters this week, tea party leaders are begging their coalition — responsible for much of the GOP’s momentum since 2009 — to hold it together despite the dark clouds swirling over Romney-Ryan campaign.

“Several people mentioned to us that the media seems to be trying to make them believe we have no hope,” Kay and Ron Rivoli, performers on the Tea Party Express bus tour, wrote in an email sent to supporters Tuesday. “Folks, the liberal media is lying. They are trying to make you feel defeated so you won’t bother going to the polls to vote. But there is hope and that hope is in Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.”

“Over the last several weeks, I have received emails from some of our supporters who say they think the system is so broken it cannot be fixed and our efforts are futile,” Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin wrote in an email sent to supporters Tuesday. “They are angry at the Republican nominee who does not fight hard enough for our core values. They are angry at the Republican ‘leadership’ in the House who are spineless and unable to make any real spending cuts.”

The importance of tea partiers to Romney’s eventual success cannot be overstated. With his campaign increasingly reliant on the Republican base to win, the ultra-motivated voters in the tea party movement will help him run up his totals in swing states. Romney never really had the tea party’s full-throated support, but the selection of Paul Ryan and sticking to a hardline on issues like immigration (which observers say has cost him with Hispanic voters) was supposed to keep the tea party in line.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/tea-party-desperation-mitt-romney.php

"The liberal media is lying." "Angry at republican leadership as spineless and unable to make real spending cuts." Happy about the "selection of Paul Ryan and sticking to a hardline on issues like immigration".

Interesting to see how the folks in the alternative universe are struggling.
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Tea Party Leaders Beg Grassroots GOP To Keep The Faith (Original Post) pampango Sep 2012 OP
When their candidate for President brags that he's not working for them thelordofhell Sep 2012 #1
"Folks, the liberal media is lying" DJ13 Sep 2012 #2
Good luck with that. budkin Sep 2012 #3
Yup., why my local tea party candidate nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #4
Tea Party leaders are asking their faithful to screw themselves. bluestate10 Sep 2012 #5

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)
1. When their candidate for President brags that he's not working for them
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 06:58 PM
Sep 2012

I think they listen to that voice...........

DJ13

(23,671 posts)
2. "Folks, the liberal media is lying"
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 07:00 PM
Sep 2012

I would sure like to know where this mythical "liberal" media is since I only see a media that excuses the many failures of conservatism.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
4. Yup., why my local tea party candidate
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 07:12 PM
Sep 2012

did not mention she organized events since 2009 in this county FOR THE TEA PARTY!!!! I did, lib'rul media that I am, for completeness sake and added a link to her page in the Tea Party... (and that might help her with some of my locals)

They are running from it.

THough to her credit, she has kept the TP endorsement in her page.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
5. Tea Party leaders are asking their faithful to screw themselves.
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 09:30 PM
Sep 2012

When will the people in that picture start voting for their best interests and the best interests of the children and grandchildren. The bunch of them stand content to become poorer and more ignorant each year.

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