Tea Party Leaders Beg Grassroots GOP To Keep The Faith

The conservative ennui over Mitt Romney’s campaign extends from the ivory towers in New York and Washington all the way down to the Republican grassroots.

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.

Political emails often cast election prospects in the darkest possible terms, hoping to wring the most dollars and time out of supporters. But the tone of the tea party dispatches this week goes deeper, responding to what the authors describe as a real sense of disillusionment.

“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.”

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