Gingrich wins Tea Party Patriots straw pollI sent the Tea Party Patriots a web mail asking if they still supported Newt.
By Justin Sink - 12/19/11 10:43 AM ET
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...the former House Speaker earned a big victory among social conservatives Sunday night, edging out Michele Bachmann to take the Tea Party Patriots straw poll.
Gingrich garnered 31 percent of the vote from nearly 23,000 Tea Party voters nationwide, besting Bachmann by three percentage points. Mitt Romney earned 20 percent of the voters, with Rick Santorum, at 16 percent, the only other candidate to earn double digits. Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman all earned 3 percent or less of the vote.
“An overwhelming number of activists from around the nation showed they are serious about electing a candidate who advances Tea Party principles,” said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, in a statement. “Just as in 2010, candidates like Newt Gingrich will need to show they will be fiscally responsible and protect the Constitution in the White House.”
Thursday, December 22, 2011
I WONDER WHAT THEY THINK OF NEWT NOW?
Before he came out for arresting Federal judges he doesn't like, Newt won a Bagger straw poll:
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I had a conversation with a leading
Kentucky state Tea Party official who was manning a booth trying to elect Rand Paul circa 2009.
Rand voted against the indefinite detainment police state act Obama promised to veto but didn't recently.
Anyway, the official told me at that time no more than 20% of the rank and file in the TP had any kind of consistent coherent political ideology.
Boy was he right.
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