Santorum vs. Tea Party - Rick Santorum's "Real Concerns" About The Tea Party

[Lord Xar]

wow... that statement about the tea-party movement WILL sink him... just has to be put in an ad.

 

[JJ2]

wow... that statement about the tea-party movement WILL sink him... just has to be put in an ad.

Yes, but it needs to be done as soon as possible. Don't even let him get past the NH primary as a viable candidate.

 

[Ironhide]

Excellent post JM, the Tea Party was a good thing until it was taken over by neocons.

 

[JJ2]

Excellent post JM, the Tea Party was a good thing until it was taken over by neocons.

Such as Santorum? LOL.

 

[fuzzybekool]

The Republican Party is finished if Ron Paul does not get the nomination.

 

[parocks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLQnoVpkyqc&sns=em

He's really reaching out for broad support from all sides.....

It was posted on the Tea Party Patriots FB Page. Some great anti-Santorum Comments on the post

https://www.facebook.com/teapartypatriots

Interesting clip. He's basically saying 2 things there.

1) He's not a Tea Party Conservative.

2) He likes earmarks

We'd like this clip broken up into 2 sections.

Because we agree with 2). That's basically what Ron Paul is saying about earmarks.

The first section of this clip goes to people who are tea party. This one is called Santorum is not tea party.

The second section of this clip goes to people who like Santorum. This one is called Santorum agrees with Ron Paul on earmarks.

 

[ronpaulitician]

Eh. It's clear to me that he's saying, "I've got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party and [within] the Tea Party movement to sort of re-fashion conservatism." It can certainly be abused though to make it appear that he has concerns about the Tea Party movement.

 

[parocks]

I still see Santorum as a gift from Iowa.

Santorum cannot win the nomination. Because of that, I don't worry so much about where he is in the polls. We're in a fairly good spot right now. I keep hearing "we are doomed if we don't win right away" from some people here. I don't see that, but for all I know it might be true. Months ago, the race was seen as shaping up between the tea party conservative and the establishment RINO. Some people think that all of our opposition will just dissolve. But they're aware how much the media does not like us one bit. The media opposes us 100%, but opposition from other candidates will just vanish, and we'll stroll to the nomination uncontested?

Santorum has passed Gingrich in South Carolina and Perry is in the single digits. Santorum is ahead of Gingrich in New Hampshire. In New Hampshire we're looking at Romney, Paul, Santorum/Huntsman, Gingrich. In South Carolina we're looking at Romney/Santorum, Paul/Gingrich. Same in Florida? Gingrich might start to think about dropping out.

 

[parocks]

Eh. It's clear to me that he's saying, "I've got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party and [within] the Tea Party movement to sort of re-fashion conservatism." It can certainly be abused though to make it appear that he has concerns about the Tea Party movement.

He most certainly does have problems with the tea party movement. Santorum is a big government social conservative. the tea party is libertarian limited constitutional government conservatism. He believes that true conservatism is big government social conservatism, and does not want the tea party to claim that their political beliefs are conservative. He's describing Ron Paul, and calling the tea party Ron Paul. That's a great clip.

 

[Tyler_Durden]

Somebody is working on extracting the tea party clip. It should be posted soon.....

 

[TheTexan]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/12/politics/romney-conservative/index.html

"As conservatives and tea party folks, we are not just wings of the Republican Party," Santorum declared at CPAC, hours before Romney was set to speak. "We are the Republican Party."

 

[Vet_from_cali]

RIP tea party, you died once Newt was labeled a member.

lol @ any significance of this