In the largest response to a North Texas Tea Party membership survey, respondents apparently are NOT buying into the media and national pundits’ sales pitch of the ‘inevitability’ of Mitt Romney being the nominee. (Full survey results can be found here) Mitt pulled a miserable 9.7% for a 4th-place finish, well behind Rick Santorum (35.4%), Newt Gingrich (27.7%) and even Rick Perry (13.1%), only bypassing Ron Paul (8.3%) and Jon Huntsman (1%).
It appears that just maybe some people don’t think a couple hundred thousand people in Iowa and New Hampshire should control the electoral destiny of this nation. And, while none of the candidate’s are perfect, each should be looked at clear-eyed, without the blinders the media and the political establishment in the Northeast would have us wear. The presidential primary is only over if we want those two elite groups running things for us.
I can tell you that Newt Gingrich is loosing my vote. His negative adds against capitalism is against what the Republican party should be endorsing.. At least the Tea Party should support.
The poll was conducted a few days ago. Much of Newt’s Bain criticisms had not been aired by then.
My thoughts; Mitt is a RINO, don’t hunt for huntsman, Santorum is sinking, Ron P. reminds me of Walter of Dunham fame!. Which brings me to Gringrich. The money that was spent in Iowa to demonize him should tell us something. He must have some enemies in Washington that drove him out of office and do not want to be confronted by him again. They also did not go along with what he was trying to accomplish in the early 90s. I think it would be interesting, exciting, and intertaining to watch the politicians run for the bushes, not pun intended, when newt becomes the next president.
Woody – you don’t have to worry about anyone running for bushes because Newt Gingrich will never be the President of anything (except maybe a division of Fannie or Freddie). Always remember that as much as you and a lot of Americans hate the far left, the majority of Americans feel the same way about the far right. Americans arent going to vote for extremist on either end of the political spectrum. It works in some political races where the person that can spew the most red meat rhetoric gets elected, but for President of the United States, people just don’t want that.
No longer an issue of left or right; it’s about the math. Our deficit addition in this last year was not $1.3 trillion; adding in future unfunded obligations added in the last year (as businesses are required to do), it was $4.2 trillion. The left would try to fix this by massively increasing taxes- which has NEVER worked, because all that ever does is trigger even MORE spending- and in these quantities draining every ‘rich person’ and corporate profit would fix things for less than a year.
The ‘moderates’ of which you speak are the ones who simply can’t do the math; they insist on having all their benefits and not raising taxes. They are the ‘Lost’ generations- those that can name every cast member of the ‘Lost’ series, but can’t name their representatives.
Please let me know IF yall decide to do another survey so I can promote it
we don’t promote our survey outside our group. Don’t need candidates flooding it from outside to dilute what the opinion of our group is. In fact, all those submitted from outside the group are deleted before the tallying.