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Title: Romney Nabs Tea Party Endorsement In South Carolina
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CNN
URL Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co ... endorsement-in-south-carolina/
Published: Sep 4, 2011
Author: Peter Hamby
Post Date: 2011-09-04 18:45:04 by Brian S
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Views: 2213
Comments: 4
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) – On the day before he takes part in a South Carolina presidential forum being organized by Sen. Jim DeMint, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney secured a high-profile tea party endorsement in the first-in-the-south primary state.
State Treasurer Curtis Loftis, one of the most tea party-friendly elected officials in the Palmetto State, told CNN Sunday that he will chair Romney’s presidential campaign in state.
“He is the guy who reflects my values and has the greatest chance of taking back the White House in 2012,” Loftis said in a phone interview.
Loftis praised Romney's private sector experience and said he is more electable than the rest of the Republican candidates currently seeking the White House, including two with strong footholds in South Carolina: Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Romney has a complicated relationship with some in the tea party movement, thanks largely to the health care law he passed as governor that mandates the purchase of health insurance.
He has also spent little time so far in South Carolina during his second bid for the White House, after spending millions of dollars here only to finish fourth in the 2008 primary.
But Loftis, who aggressively courted tea party activists during his 2010 campaign and once printed campaign bumper stickers emblazoned with Gadsden flags, said Romney can not only win South Carolina but also attract tea party support along the way
“As things go to the primaries, I think the tea party will show itself to be very pragmatic and to be very interested in the financial situation in America,” Loftis said. “They, like us, don’t want to be watching the inauguration on television. They want to be there in January 2013.”
CNN reported last week that Loftis was likely to throw his support behind Romney.
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Loftis probably supports limp-wristed Lindsey Graham as well.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. -- Alice Cooper
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
One Tea Party member's endorsement does not mean someone is endorsed by the entire Tea Party. I am a SC Tea Party member and I endorse Herman Cain.
That said, in the general election I will endorse a pile of dog shit if it's on the ballot against Barry Hussein Obama.
#3. To: Happy Quanzaa (#2)
and I endorse Herman Cain.
Seriously?
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#4. To: Brian S, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#0)
tea party-friendlyaggressively courted tea party activists
The dude drank a bottle of Rush Limbaugh iced tea, and now thinks he's a tea party spokeshole.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
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