Rick Perry has captured the interest of the conservative right. Romney’s lead in the polls has evaporated. Tea party activists are beginning to jump on the Perry campaign train.
Romney RINO is feeling the heat.
Has he decided to embrace the tea party?
His campaign has announced that he will join the Tea Party Express’ “Reclaiming America” bus tour in Manchester, New Hampshire. The group’s fifth national bus tour kicked off last week in California and will end in Tampa ahead of the CNN/Tea Party Express debate on September 12th.
Romney’s appearance at the event is unusual in that he has not participated in any events in the Tea Party Express’ previous four bus tours. In fact, leaders of tea party groups say they cannot recall any major tea party events that Romney has spoken to or attended since the movement began.
The Romney campaign do not dispute that but stress that Romney has frequently met with tea party activists and supports their ideals of limited government, less spending and lower taxes.
Really? I must have missed that press release.
I don’t believe his Romneycare plan in Massachusetts would be considered a limited government program. It looks and smells a lot like Obamacare to me.
In a recent poll, Romney lands in third-place among tea party supporters, suggesting he’s not their favorite. In the survey, Perry gets 37-percent support from those conservative activists, Bachmann, 14-percent, and Romney 11-percent.
So is Romney thinking that he’s going to win the hearts of the tea party or is it just that he needed an excuse to skip an invite from Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) to participate in a conservative forum in Columbia, SC?
Rick Perry will be there, Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be there and even Herman Cain will be there. Romney was invited but declined to participate citing “scheduling conflicts.”
Hmmm.
