It’s finally official, and congratulations to the Romneys and everyone on their team. Tea Party made sure he had to earn this, and he did. Now let’s focus and kick Obama’s ass to the curb on November 6!
I’m looking forward to seeing how all of you feel. I know this road has been long, difficult and surprising for many, I personally have been looking forward to all conservatives coming together and getting this great nation of ours back on her feet.
Mitt Romney clinched the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a resounding victory in Texas and now faces a five-month sprint to convince voters to trust him over Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 6 election.
Although the race has been essentially over for weeks, Romney finally cleared the necessary benchmark of 1,144 delegates for becoming the Republicans’ presidential candidate after a long, bitter primary battle with a host of conservative rivals.
He will be formally nominated at the Republicans’ convention in Florida in late August.
In a statement, Romney said he was humbled to win enough of Texas’ 155 delegates to secure the nomination.
“Our party has come together with the goal of putting the failures of the last three and a half years behind us. I have no illusions about the difficulties of the task before us. But whatever challenges lie ahead, we will settle for nothing less than getting America back on the path to full employment and prosperity,” he said.
Your intrepid TAM from The Great State of Texas reports:
As of this writing, all the major media outlets are reporting that there WILL be a RUNOFF between Dewhurst and Cruz for the Republican nomination for U.S.Senate on July 31st.
With 48% of the precincts reporting:
Dewhurst: 438,400 46%
Cruz 306,500 32%
Leppert 127,949 13%
(Leppert plays the spoiler…)
From the Austin Statesman:
*A Dewhurst-Cruz match-up, which has been portrayed as a clash between the Republican Party establishment and the tea party, would likely create a national political spectacle.
*Cruz will probably start the next phase of the race far behind Dewhurst, if early results hold. But the political dynamic could change significantly in an unusual mid-summer primary.
*Cruz argues that his supporters are more likely to show up and vote in a runoff, and a recent poll does suggest that Cruz backers are more enthusiastic. That same poll, however, suggested that Dewhurst would still prevail.
I am ‘predicting’ that Sarah Palin WILL make personal appearances for Ted Cruz!!!
posted 5/29 1015pm Texas[It’s Tea Party Time Baby!!!]Time
Tammy writes: “Now let’s focus and kick Obama’s ass to the curb” — captures the whole thing 🙂
I waited for 20 minute watching 10pm TV News to get a report about the Romney nomination win. Then the report was only 15 seconds long, and talked more about Trump.
LSM in Chicago, of course.
It shows the control and power the LSM has over the brain-dead unengaged rest of the world…that frightens me.
Ooorahh, it’s about time. Now lets go kick some Demo-Lib-Prog-Socialist butt and clean out our vermin ridden Casa Blanca.
The Morning After After Action Texas Election Report Summary of Results:
(99% of the precincts reporting)
For Nomination for President:
Republican: 1,435,553 votes cast—-Romney gets 69%, the next closest:Ron Paul:12%
Democrat: 585,154 votes cast—-The Dumb Bastard 88%(notice it’s not 100%…the remaining went to l.ron hubbard, am a dinner jacket, chavez, castro, putin, willie and waldo…)
Total=2,020,707
For Nomination for U.S.Senate:
Republican: 1,394,383 votes cast—Dewhurst 45%, Cruz 34%—>Runoff
Democrat: 493,577 votes cast—Sadler 35%, Yarbrough 26%—>Runoff
Total=1,887,960
and there you go…
posted 5/30 907am Texas[Tea Party Time] Time
And yet the dishonest CNN has it on their Political Ticker site this morning that Dewhurst “narrowly” missed avoiding a runoff with 48% of the vote to 30% for Cruz.
Honest mistake? Yeah right. It’s obvious they are trying to minimize conservative (and Palin) efforts in that race. CNN is a shameless liberal propaganda outlet, nothing more.
My source is the Austin American Statesman Morning Edition.
More specifics:
Dewhurst 624,072 45%
Cruz 478,994 34%
Leppert 186,652 13%
James 50,204 4%
Addison 22,882 2%
The numbers speak for themselves, but CNN has a political agenda.
posted 5/30 1230pm Texas[Defeat the Democrat/Media Complex!]Time
Nice numbers for votes cast by Republicans. Almost 3 to 1 compared to the Dems. I wouldn’t be surprised if some voter turnout records are set come November.
The 2008 Texas Presidential Election Results:
McCain 4,467,748 55.5%
Obama 3,521,164 43.8%
I will GUARANTEE YOU after 3 years of abuse by all Departments of the Federal Government, led by the Dumb Bastard, the Texans will kick this yellow-belly SOB right in the groin, and out of the White House, and he won’t get 38% of the vote here, if that much.
posted 5/30 410pm Texas[Beware the October Surprise]Time
A stark contrast to the current White House occupiers.
Lord, I wish I could get the warm and fuzzies for Romney, but he leaves me cold-as cold as McRino did. The Saracuda is the only thing that gave me any enthusiasm back in ’08.
We all understood the high probability of Romney winning the nomination. The Republican establishment threw every shiny object into the primary to include: Newt; Santorum(I was an early supporter but was shallow to only remember his strong stance on foreign policy and not his propensity to spend and support establishment candidates-for this I’m embarrassed); Huntsman; Pawlenty; Perry; Cain… All of these candidates would’ve been malleable and acceptable to the machine. Romney, with all of his professional accomplishments, is his own man, imo. He hasn’t relied on the Republican machine to make his mark on the world. He may not understand or appreciate conservatism as we know it. But, he has the mental strength and the determination to follow through on what he finds to be the correct action and-or policy. I hope he’s been acquainting himself with the Goldwater-Reagan-TAM 😉 brand of conservatism. And, I hope his choice of VP and cabinet members appreciate, embrace, and articulately promote constitutional conservatism. He had better. Otherwise, we’ll know he did not “get” the Tea Party and the greater conservative movement.
Theologians ponder why the devil went to Eve first instead of Adam. They say God gave Adam authority but He gave Eve the power of influence, which is actually more powerful.From what I’ve seen of Anne Romney, I feel she could be a great conservative influence on her husband. So, as they say on Allstate,he’s in good hands.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Tammy for the 5/30/12 show which I think should be a BEST OF. After suffering through the 8 years of Clinton disrespecting the office and taking credit for the Republican economy, the disapointment in Pres Bush’s second term and Obama “winning”, I finally have found a place that feels what I feel and cares about this country. I love the fellow Tams even when they disagree and our leader Tammy is just so sincere that I get verclempt. When you told us today, to take what you have said or written and use it to help the cause, i thought how gracious and magnanimous of you. Andrew would be so proud. God Bless Tammy and all the Tams for your patriotism.
unfortunately, I get the feeling Ann Romney is more of an enabler.
“He never takes anything at face value; he can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he’s like really believing his argument, but he’s not.” — Ann Romney
Dianna, could you tell us where you got that quote? Thanks.
I did a bit of web research. This particular quote is repeated often by detractors, but where did it come from? Found a NewsMax article: archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/22/90847.shtml. Here’s the relevant quote:
Taken in context, you can see that Ann was simply describing Mitt’s reasoning process. This is a logical enough thing: You accept a “fact” for the sake of the argument and see how much weight you can put on it. This is what we want in a leader, a combination of open-mindedness and healthy skepticism.
So, as normal, by the time the primaries get to Indiana – the nominee is long settled and decided. Yawn.
Could someone please explain to me why I should bother voting in the primaries for a nominee for “president”????
Our primary in Ohio was back in March. To be honest, I was getting the feeling the nominee had already been selected back then.