Something the Dems didn’t want to hear…..
The chairman of the Tea Party Express put out a statement yesterday telling Fox News that the Tea Party will support whoever the GOP nominee is…even if it’s Mitt Romney. “Whoever the Republican nominee is will have to have the support of the Tea Party movement, the entire Tea Party movement.” Amy Kremer told Fox News on Saturday. She also said that they would not support a third party candidate…..”There is no way that we are going to support a third party candidate. It would split the vote and it would guarantee reelection for Obama, and we need to crush Obama. We have to get him out of the White House,”
Rock on Amy!
That’s very good news for the GOP and very bad news for the Dems, who are hoping that the Republican party will be fractured by in-fighting amongst the Cocktail Party and the Tea Party. Oh….you can bet that there will be fighting during the primaries. Claws will be out and blood will flow but it’s nice to hear that…in the end…the Tea Party will back the GOP candidate.
I think that Governor Palin is gaining steam with her bus tour . The LSM is following her around like a bunch of flesh-eating zombies. The more they try to vilify her and make her look like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, they more popular she becomes. She relates to the “common folk” of America and people will remember that come November 2012. It’s my opinion that the snobby-silver spoon-lefty elitist are doing Governor Palin a favor by trying to marginalize her. She terrifies them. They will be even more terrified if she picks a black VP running mate. I would love Allen West or Herman Cain.
Palin/West….Palin/Cain
Both have a really nice sound.
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You're right – this announcement was most unwanted. Can this have the effect of the liberals pushing the most leftwing candidate within the GOP, knowing that a moderate won't win and would result in this nitwit willing reelection? We have to hang in there and do our part.
Nah, Charlie Crist and Arlene Specter are already out of the GOP.
Excellent — I was fearful that "ross perot" would get obama re-elected – thank God that we are smarter than that — United We Stand!__
I think one of Sarah's strategies is to wait for the country to catch up to her. We all know far left wing policies don't work. The pendulum always moves in the other direction. Has the rest of the country caught up to Sarah yet….we'll see. The biggest obstacle has been the Country club republicans. When they should be fighting against the liberals tooth and nail, they constantly cave. The media attacks are tough but they need to be tougher.
Actually this comes as no surprise to me. The Tea Party Express is a GOP PAC group and has been since its beginnings. So stating they would support whoever won the GOP election should shock no one. Tea Party Express may make this statement but they do not speak for a vast majority of those aligned with the Tea Party movement.
The largest national group of patriots is the Tea Party Patriots, which refuses to endorse candidates and focuses on educating the masses. Education in the founding principles of this country will assist individuals in making decisions based on the Constitution.
I totally agree. Support for the GOP candidate amongst the Tea Partiers in my group should not be automatically assumed — it will be based on the candidate's record, the way the campaign is run, how persuasive the policy positions are, how strong that candidate directs attacks against Obama, and the response to the inevitable "Black Swan" event (which always seems to occur in October or November).
Are you serious? You'd rather have Obama again???
You are wrong about the tea party express. I know many former Clinton supporters who are now tea party members. If you ask me, PUMAs were the largest within the Tea Parties when they started. The GOP did not start the tea parties. Do you remember hwo the GOP actually wanted no part of the tea parties at first, which BTW, was so stupid that I almost wish we didn't have to go with the politically unsavvy GOP, but of course I will. I'll just hate it if I have to back Mittens.
GOP needs to learn the lessons of the Canadian right which has lead to a majority Conservative government. During the 1990s, the right in Canada was split between the Reform Party (AKA tea party) and the Progressive Conservatives which allowed the Liberal Party of Canada to get three successful majority governments. Finally under Harper the Reform and PCs merged and it took a while, but Harper has been in power since 2006 (with a minority government until 2011) and now until 2015 with a majority (which means it is all his game). The left in Canada is fractured and don't know what to do now so while Harper is in charge until 2015, the chances are good that it will be longer!!!
Hi Bridget, I understand why Amy made this statement, by I see alot of people's heads exploding who, if mittens is the candidate, will not vote for him, since he not a conservative and blew up supporting man-made global warming, romneycare, etc..They don't want to watch a McCain rerun, only want a Michelle B., Herman Cain, especially would like Sarah to be the nominee . They are angry that the TP is speaking for them..not going over well.
I would like your take on this.
Thank you!
Hey there! I think that the tea party has demonstrated that they have too much influence over elections to not have a say-so in who the GOP nominee is for 2012. This is why I strongly feel that Mitt Romney will not be the GOP candidate. He has RINO written all over him (just like McCain..ugh!) You're correct that the TP want someone like Michelle Bachman, Herman Cain or Sarah Palin…or they would love….Jim DeMint or Paul Ryan but they have said that they will not run. I think that both the RNC and the TP are waiting for someone like Rick Perry to jump in the race because he fits into both profiles…..the RNC always want a "white male" (blah blah blah…they can't seem to think outside the box) and the TP want a true conservative with a proven record. Rick Perry gives them both what they want (or at least he appears to). I very much like Rick Perry but I need to read up on him a little more. I may be completely wrong about all of this but if there's one thing we should take away from Amy Kremer's statement it's this…..Obama needs to be defeated in 2012….no matter what. I whole heartedly agree with this.
Bridget, Rick Perry is the consummate RINO. Sidestepping the TX legislature, he mandated that all girls starting in sixth grade would be required to get the untested papillomavirus vaccine. The reaction was swift and severe, not just by Texas parents, but by the legislature. That requirement was rescinded. He is in the pocket of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. He became governor by default when Bush was elected to the presidency. He won re-election only because the alternative was worse.
I will never forget seeing the video of his driver being pulled over by a state trooper for busting the speed limit. Perry immediately got out of the SUV and waved off the state trooper, telling her "There's nothing to see here." The state trooper was merely doing her job and did not know the SUV was the governor's. Instead of respecting her for doing her job, he completely dismissed her and diminished her. He views himself as above the law.
Perry has been forced to become more conservative because of the Tea Party movement. He does so only because he views the movement as a benefit to him. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Thanks for the info…..I knew I needed to do some more research on him.
Patti, WE need to support the GOP candidate! Those who do not feel that way have NOT have their fill of Obama yet and thus are not ready to take back our country.
I'm not sure Palin could win the presidency, but I would LOVE to see her as White House spokesperson. Then the media would really be putty in her hands, and I think they would literally go crazy if they had to mingle with her on a daily basis. It would certainly be fun to watch.
If Obama won…Anyone CAN win…then again, you need a CONSERVATIVE to win as a Republican…namby pamby a la McLame ALWAYS lose!….
As for the spokesperson…Rumsfeld would be my choice…I love how he used to slice and dice the media…it was so embarrassing for them, that they seldom reported it.
In DC Troll: Howard Dean agrees with your assessment:
“Any time you have a contest — particularly when unemployment is as high as it is — nobody gets a walkover,” Dean said. “Whoever the Republicans nominate, including people like Sarah Palin, whom the inside-the-Beltway crowd dismisses — my view is if you get the nomination of a major party, you can win the presidency, I don’t care what people write about you inside the Beltway,” Dean said.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/05/howard-dean…
thank you
and if pushed by the cocktail party/establishment – if pushed – Sarah can win as the third party – why because all will rejoice for the end of the cocktail party – a la the whig party – that is the difference – new era = new rules
we have nothing invested in the Republican Party – but we are invested in the people – conservatives will follow the PRINCIPLED PARTY – but not the fat cats any longer!
So Boehner continue to enjoy the country club and your golf games with Obama and K Street a while longer with the little time in office left – his political grave marker is already chiseled.
Patti, I understand where you're coming from–I don't want a weak candidate either!–but I think this just shows that those who count themselves as members of the Tea Party have to get out the vote for the primaries for the truly conservative candidates who are running so we end up with that person who would be the candidate chosen by the majority of true conservatives, not the candidate pushed on us by lamestream media OR the insider GOP. Let's not be swayed by someone's spending on advertising, campaign gimmicks, etc. Let's be knowledgeable about the issues, the candidates' stances on them, and be able to speak to others persuasively.
You do know that the Tea Party Express is a GOP PAC, right? And, you do know that Amy Kremer was r-e-m-o-v-e-d from the Tea Party Patriots as an organizer because she threw her allegiance with a PAC.
You do know that the "Tea Party Patriots" is a grassroots organization that does not support candidates. Right?
I never thought I would have to defend the Tea Party against GOP PACS. I knew the Dems and liberals would come after us, but I did not guess that this insidious attack from republican PACs would be forefront of what we have to deal with today, including Ron Paul's claim to have given physical birth to all things Tea.
I hope you know enough to not confuse the Tea Party Express and Amy Kremer with the actual Tea Party Patriots. When you say, "The Tea Party" what exactly are you saying? I want to know your definition of "Tea Party"
To misspeak of the Tea Party, allowing any group to "be" the Tea Party is causing harm. The public needs to know the difference between a GOP PAC masquerading as a Tea Party and the actual Tea Party.
And let me guess, my comment, although it contains no swear words, will go in moderation…
Yeah, all good things since the Paulies took over. Right?
Let's see. Make me eat my words about the moderation.
The Tea Party Express is not the only Tea Party organization, they must all get on board, we have no choice, as there is no way this nation can stand another four years of Obama. The dirty tricks and fraud that we will have to overcome in 2012 will make the 2008 election seem like a walk in the park. We must stand firm together, and as much as I hate to think of it happening, if we end up with a liberal RINO it is still better than Obama. Like my late uncle use to say, "You eat an elephant one bite at a time". We will just have to keep working until we get the kind of government we want and need.
Such illogic instead fits in with Vladimir Lenin's famous coining of "USEFUL IDIOTS"
No this makes our work harder because every time we elect a RINO we have to open a TWO FRONT War – one against the known enemy and the other those in the Republican Party.
Vote for a RINO because you lose your credibility
Sarah gets this!
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/20…
The only good thing I can say about Mittens is that 1) he's not as blatant a RINO as was John McCain (he does, after all, have a business background), and 2) he's well aware of the animosity the Tea Party has toward those who capitulate to the global warming – "universal" health care – government school crowds. I think that whoever the Republican candidate is in 2012, they know that their only hope of winning (and keeping their job in 2016) is to embrace Tea Party beliefs and ideas. Boehner has already received a few repercussions thanks to his backpedaling, and the lesson for any elected official should be that they aren't slick enough, smart enough or cute enough to get away with RINOism.
Willard (mittens) is as much of a RINO as McLame…Willard just announced HIS SUPPORT for man-made global warming!!!!
not to mention his INSANE doubling-down last week to renew his support of Ethanol subsidies!!
As for health care HE has NOT learned his lesson…his ONLY regret about Obamacare is that HE wasn't consulted, so he could tell them how to improve ROMNEYCARE v1.0 and turn it into Romneycare v.2.0 (aka Obamacare)
If Willard wins…be sure we will have ROMNEYCARE v3.0 (of the 2012 kind)
btw..Romney will run out of money to pay people to vote him just like in 2008 when he suddenly quit the race for no other plausible reason!!
Romney is not a CONSERVATIVE – he is done! …and all are catching on at lightning speed
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2011/06/0…
http://www.facebook.com/StopRomney
As much as I would love to see a Palin/West ticket the reality is that 1) Palin is a suave politician 2) she can count Electoral votes so I think she will make a play for the center, so to speak, as well as make a selection that could translate into EVs with her VP pick. I doubt very seriously that the pick would be Romney (unless she win the nod in a very tight contest with him) given his toxic nature with the base (she understands that even though I'm sure her advisers would be championing Mitt) My hope for a "centrist' pick would be Giuliani but I doubt she would go for a "NY" pick as that won't translate into any unexpected wins in the Northeast states. Cristy is out due to his sneering remarks towards Mrs. P and I think by next year he will be damaged goods. That leaves Pawlenty. Pick moves Minnesota in the battleground state category as well other Midwest states. T-paw would appeal to some in the media as well as independents. Palin/Pawlenty. The Mama Grizzly and her right (or is it left?) Paw (hopefully who will man up and do his job as the VP pick and do the necessary take-downs of The One).
This so-called "Tea Part Express" CHAIRMAN is not representative of the Tea Party Movement – she is the establishment plant from the GOP establishment which is working overtime (with the LSM and Obama) in the take-down of their one common and shared enemy – the tea party movement! FACT!
btw..they are not too bright as the sheer fact that someone bestowed a royal title upon themselves – CHAIRMAN a la DICTATOR FOR LIFE (This Amy Kremer is the new Hugo Chavez) – tells all of us what we need to know and to immediately disregard all that comes from such group!
NEWSFLASH: those of us in the movement do not bestow or recognize titles nor such autocrats!
This is the establishment's new trojan horse – trust and believe us on this one!!!
it only took us 30 seconds of vetting to confirm Amy Kremer is the new Eva Braun pretending to be part of the movement – she appears at all elite cocktail/LSM/Dem parties and only is the media darling apprearing on all leftist radio/tv/newsprint outlets!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying this.
People here need to stand for principles, not this "red team"/"blue team" crap. Romney would be god-awful, and anyone claiming to be "Tea Party" that backs him would need to be shunned out of the movement.
i couldn't agree with you more! The tea party is a movement and no one i repeat no one is in charge.I think the woman is a legend in her own mind. No one will tell me who to vote for and what to do with my vote. The Tea party movement is a conservative movement and romney is a liberal i guess amy didn't get the memo. I think the woman should keep her mouth shut because she is giveing the impression that we are all on boad with a liberal. I dont pay attention to polls they can change very quickly and i certainly wouldn't pay attention to amy as a great many people never even heard of her! She doesn't draw the crowds and people don't come to see her and she certainly doesn't speak for the entire tea party movement.
Funny to run into this, as I had just been thinking of, well, some kind of a poll, I suppose. What's the real measure of the public's thinking?
Say we had a three-way race, O'Bama the Democrat vs. Palin as an Independent Party candidate vs the Republican nominee. Put in different RINOs, and see what poll results you get when you run it past the Tea Party folks (not their "leaders" whoever they may be), solid conservatives, military families, and just plain long-suffering heartland Americans. Romney? Really? Gingrich? OMG! One of the other Democrat-preferred McCainish sure-to-lose boys?
Some states have essentially legislated two-party-ism, unless you've got Perot's power to throw the election. Oklahoma's heavy rules for getting on the ticket booted the Libertarians (party of the L on forehead) long ago.
Then there's the way so many folks still get their views (not just their news) from the mass media brainwashing machine and would not even know the truth about a 3rd party candidate (witness the recent NY race split). Back in the '70s when I first heard of the party of principle, I used to hope the Libertarians had a chance — I even "wasted" some votes on the LP candidates when I was permitted to do so (and when the election was a foregone conclusion, like Reagan), but the LP still is doggedly running 4th in a 3-way race, more determined to lose than the RINO establishment.
You don't have to be tin-hat cynical to acknowledge the way those two married-to-each-other mobs control the elections in major areas. (I forget — was it Stalin or Lenin who said, it's not the people who vote who decide the elections, it's the people who count the votes?).
Include the sheer inertia of the whole two-party system. Most of my relatives plan to pull the straight-party lever; aside from a couple of collij-ejjimicated Obamabots, the majority are life-long straight-ticket Republicans.
These factors added up surely mean that a strong conservative third party would in all probability split the right and independent vote and give us four more years of this worst administration ever. In this critical emergency election, it's just horse sense, realism, to accept "any Republican over Obama!" I'm all about getting O'Bama out, too, you betcha! Like an old National Lampoon skit once said of Nixon, anybody but O'Bama — an Edsel — a toaster — anything!
BUT.. BUT… BUT…. But when I reflect upon this awful seeming truth, I CRINGE! Did you hold your nose in voting for McCain? Did you hold your nose voting for the neocon Bush (twice)? And before that, and before that, and before that? Ach-eee-double hockey-sticks, I even have problems with Reagan. How long are we going to be forced to choose the lesser of two weevils? to choose increasingly INO R's, just to stop the latest D'crazy? HOW LONG, O LORD?
I'm FED UP with this. You?
HillBuzz really helps educate about eeyorism or concern trolling. Does this conclusion, "any Republican," differ in spirit?
First the Tea Party Express is a PAC and does not represent ALL the tea party movement.
And she certainly does not speak for the entire Tea Party movement. NO ONE DOES. It is bound by limited govt, fiscal conservatism.
That being said I want the most conservative candidate, I love sarah Palin, and if she wins the repub nomination I will use my vacation leave to campaign for her, if Romney is the candidate — not a fan of his — I will vote for him.
My main goal is to make sure that loser marxist in the WH is thrown out!!!!!
Also, I don't like this Amy lady, either she has no idea who and what makes up the tea party movement or she really isn't skilled at making nuanced statements.
She could have easily dodged this question, she could have said, we will not back anyone, our goal is to return to limited govt, etc… and we will support a candidate who does that, now if its Romney and the fraud, romney is obviously more conservative, same goes for palin vs the fraud, palin is more aligned with the tea party. This woman really needs to shut up or be replaced with someone more saavy.
I am a member ot the TEA party this Amy does not speak for me either. I want a conservative nominee. No rinos, please! I am slowly getting my ducks in a row and deciding who I will support for the primary. Palin/Cain would be an excellent ticket. Cain/West would rock, too. Bachman/West, Bachman/Cain, etc……The options are huge. With all of the conservatives we have in the race, and those who will be getting in, surely we can put a true conservative in the general. I just can't believe that Mitens is the best we can do. Sigh…………
WE need to support the GOP candidate! Those who do not feel that way have NOT have their fill of Obama yet and thus are not ready to take back our country.
I just shake my head when I read some of these replies. No leader of a group can speak for all members at all time. Amy Kremer saying that the Tea Party Express will support any Republican does not guarantee that every person affiliated with that group will do so. Duh. Take a step back and look at the bigger picture. At some point, it will come down to Obama vs The Other Candidate. If you don't want another four years of Obama, then you had better vote for The Other Candidate, even if he or she isn't your ideal choice. Picking a third party candidate or staying home is just one more vote for Barky.
It's that simple.
This is how she should have answered the question. She didn't answer it this way, she needs to not fall into that trap set by the Obot media.
I completely agree with you that a third party would sweep O'Bama back into the WH. My problem with the statement made by Amy is it sounds like she is throwing in the towel on our chances of getting a TEA party conservative as our nominee. We have to believe we can do this. If we don't believe we can get the job done then we will fail. I am focused in the present. I am focused on making a non-rino "the other candidate".
If we wind up with another McCain I will hold my nose and cast my vote for yet another rino. But right now, that is not even on my radar.
Well stated aurora7777
I'm glad she is just saying it.. I have been thinking this also along these lines.. Who ever gets the nomination for Republican party, we must vote for him/her.. We have to get rid of Obama. If it is mittens, then we will get rid of him in 2016 replace him with Sarah………
He has governed, he has run a business, his record with the Olympics, etc. Much better than having a senator in the oval office….
Our local tea-partiers were out yesterday on a major road between towns with the "don't tread on me" flags and the huge American flags and the "Obama Must Go" signs as well as others. We beeped our horn when we saw them and they were so appreciative because all the cars after us beeped and it carried on for many cars for as long as we could still hear them. I was hoping they were still there this morning but they weren't. I hope there were loud beeps for as long as they were standing there.
Oh yeah, and no one speaks for all of us. No. One. That's the difference between the lemmings and the tea party individuals. Key word here is "individuals". I will vote for the R candidate if she/he is qualified, conservative, and committed to incorporating our constitution into her/his ideals for the presidency. Any bifurcation or equivication will create chaos within the R party. We can't have that because it will give Dr. Utopia 4 more years to ruin the finest country on this earth. We don't have the time and we certainly don't/won't have any more money to redistribute. That hemoraging stops in January 2013.
What if the R candidate is not qualified in your eyes? You then only have several choices; 1. Vote Obama. 2. Don't vote. 3. Vote for a write in and that's like not voting.
Well, I voted for McCain last time out against Dr. Utopia. I figured a war tested/POW president with an axe to grind who had the media's attention even when he became surly might be better than a lying socialist jazz-hands choreographer who seemed to have studied under David Copperfield in how to extend the slight of hand movements to trick the public who pay for the show. I will decide when I have something to decide. Right now no one speaks for me and won't – even when its time for me to make the decision…and that won't be for a year in NJ. June. Last up. I'm praying that Sarah's still high up in the pack and that other solid conservatives are right there with her [Bachman, West, Cain et al]. We would be blessed if all the Rinos were expelled early in the primary season and we had nothing but constitutional conservatives to choose from.
brilliant – well said!
The time to choose a conservative candidate is now, not November of 2012. Hopefully, a good conservative who will be easy for all of us to support will end up with the nomination. But, remember we are up against a political party and media that specialize in dirty tricks and fraud, and they may again be successful in choosing a RINO candidate for us. Should this happen, anyone who refuses to vote for the Republican candidate no matter who it is because they don't like the person, will be responsible for electing Obama to a second term and possibly the complete downfall of the United States. I for one do not want Obama's re-election on my conscience, so I am going to do all I can to get the most conservative candidate nominated, but win or loose, I will work for and vote for the Republican in November.
I will work for and vote for the Republican in November. VERY SMART statement….
Palin/Cain or West or Romney (heh) would be an AWESOME ticket for the Tea Party to support. A girl can dream…….
Romney is a son of a polygamist just like Obama. How can a Mormon be viewed as a conservative when they invented a fraud Jesus who was nearly as sick and twisted as Mohammed.
We need a conservative women like Sarah Palin. At this time when Marxists and Muslims are joining forses aided by Soros, Facebook and all the Marxist democrats we need a Buffy the Jackle slayer (referrence to Carlos Edgar Ramirezz " CarlosThe Jackle" to saly the women hating Christian Hating Jew hating evil left. Romney will have no problem selling US out to Muslims. Why should he, he believes in a profit-Joe Smith who is a dirt bag polygamist just like Mohammed.
Palin did a fine job on Fox News Sunday. So much so that Chris Wallace pronounced her a viable candidate.
I am confident we will have a conservative candidate. What worries me is whether or not the Cocktail Party Republicans will support a conservative The answer could well be no.
Will the "cocktail party" Republicans vote for a conservative? They abandoned Goldwater and Johnson won in a landslide. But they did vote with Reagan TWICE and he scared the crap out of them. I guess it all depends on the mood of the public and how they perceive the sitting president. Carter was perceived as a bumbling failure in every measure of the economy and domestic politics. Utopia is perceived as being worse and impossible to deal with. I believe the R candidate, providing she/he is the real deal and hits the media hard and often, will win the presidency with a good majority of so-called cocktail party votes. That precludes any October surprises by the left or any particularly vile dirty tricks.
A review of the new Palin documentary, Undefeated: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43961
Even Palin put down the notion of a third party. You have to win from within. Don't sit around during the primaries like so many do because your candidate didn't win the first two (in liberal areas). Forget early primary results and vote in YOURS. Haley Barber has it right: basically – if the opposition is Obama, you betcha I'll vote for any GOP nominee – no matter who it is. O has got to go and even Romney will be a vast improvement. You have to get what gains you can and work from there. I don't think even Romney will appoint a bunch of card-carrying communists. Working for the best, but not giving up the fight if my wish doesn't come true.
You Claim: "…Even Palin put down the notion of a third party >>>"
NOT TRUE -Nice Try!
Sarah said the polar opposite! –
Sarah warned the cocktail party that time is running out – she said a year a ago she might agree with what you purported as fact today- this week she says ALL OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE! Specifically she compared the Cocktail Party's destiny to that of the Whig Party! That a 3rd party may be our only option to not only get rid of the Marxists – but also their perennial enablers – the Cocktail Party
We no longer want the Sophie's choice between picking either a liberal socialist or a conservative socialist!
Our movement is not about electing any one with an R after their name – What if Joe Biden runs as an R? What if Mayor Bloomberg runs as an R? What if they resurrect David Duke to run as an R again?
as far as Romney?? Romney is Obama-lite
(1) the Original Quitter – he quit in 2008 when he was ahead because he did not want to spend any more of his own money buying a campaign and voters! – this disqualifies him forever – he had his chance when he was ahead and walked away – no explanation!!!!
(2) Romneycare!
(3) Global Warming believer!
(4) Ethanol supporter