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Tea party launches campaign to stop Mitt RomneyMitt Romney on Thursday unveiled his campaign to lead the United States, saying that "Barack Obama has failed America." Meanwhile, the Nevada-based political action committee directed by Alaska's unsuccessful 2010 Republican U.S. Senate nominee, Fairbanks lawyer Joe Miller, unveiled its "campaign to prevent the nomination of … Mitt Romney for president." The tea party's Western Representation political action committee has purchased the domain StopRomney.org, which currently jumps to a Facebook page heavily branded with WesternPAC literature. Registration information for the website indicates it was created Wednesday, one day before Romney made his run at the White House official. Miller joined the Sparks, Nev.-based conservative PAC in March, a little more than five months after losing the U.S. Senate race to write-in candidate (and incumbent) Lisa Murkowski, and a little more than three months after Miller lost his legal challenges to the election's validity. In a prepared statement, WesternPAC accused Romney, the former CEO of Bain Capital and one-term governor of Massachusetts, of changing his position on key conservative issues like "gun rights, gay rights, abortion, immigration and health care." The statement says Miller "is committed" to making sure Romney did not lead the GOP ticket against Obama, comparing Romney to U.S. Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate who lost to George W. Bush and was branded by Republicans as a "flip-flopper" on the Iraq war. "In a matchup against Obama, tea party voters are looking for a consistent constitutional conservative," Miller said in the press release. "We will never get behind Mitt Romney." WesternPAC claims to have 250,000 "supporters" across the country. The press release hinted that the group intends to influence the 2012 race but has not yet endorsed any of the dozen or so Republican candidates testing the waters for a run against Obama. Romney campaigned for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination but came in second to eventual nominee U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who chose then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to run on the ticket as vice president. Contact Eric Christopher Adams at eric(at)alaskadispatch.com
If anyone can speak authoritatively about the right to bear arms it's a close friend of Walt Fulton and Francis "Schaffer" Cox such as Joe Miller. One hopes that he will be appointed "Minister of Personal Firearms" (and hand grenades) in a Palin/Bachmann government. Time for little Jokey to slink his slimey arse back to Kansas. He made a mess here in AK, and now wants to ruin the rest of the country too. Seems the R's have a team ranging from uninspiring to actually criminal. What is it about these Talibangelical wingnuts that appeals to anyone who claims to believe in the constitution? Is America THAT uneducated? The Republican Party made a big mistake attaching themselves to the Tea Party now we can't tell one from the other. Many read the racist signs by the Tea Party so they have a black candidate to cover that up. Republicans don't even recognize Herman Cain as he sounds like an uneducated nut. Bachmann is so dumb a 10th grader from New Jersey is ready to debate her on the topic of US History/Government. This should be a quick easy election and with the current candidates the GOP could just save the taxpayers money by putting the Palin/Bachmann ticket knowing they couldn't win under any circumstances. Poor Klansman Ron Paul is doing so bad and his dumb Senator bong hitting son isn't helping matters any. I would think at a minimum Mr. Romney will at least be able to get a better nights sleep now that he understands that the ethically-challenged, senate-candidate-loser, identity-stealing Joe Miller, "...will never get behind Mitt Romney". Whew- that was a close shave!! |
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