Romney Adviser Claims Mitt Romney Is The ‘Perfect’ Tea Party Candidate, Tea Party Disagrees

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By Zack Beauchamp and Scott Keyes on Aug 28, 2012 at 11:28 am

There’s still a fair amount of lingering mistrust among Tea Partiers toward Mitt Romney — just this Monday, Romney failed to generate much enthusiasm at a rally explicitly designed to get members of the right-wing movement fired up about the Romney campaign. But Romney adviser Ron Kaufman is convinced that Romney, far from being an outsider, “actually is the Tea Party movement.” ThinkProgress caught up with Kaufman at the GOP convention and asked him what he thought about his boss’ relationship with the Tea party. Here’s what he had to say:

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Kaufman’s position (which Romney himself has pushed before) isn’t widely held among Tea Partiers, who vehemently opposed Romney’s candidacy at the outset of the primary campaign. Influential Tea Party Group FreedomWorks called him an “establishment hack” and organized a rally against him, while Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) labelled him “NewtRomney” to signify his Washington insider status. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said it “will be a big challenge” for Romney to attract Tea Party votes and Herman Cain openly questioned whether Romney’s religion would limit his appeal among the movement’s southern base. Indeed, Romney failed to attract many votes from self-describe Tea Party voters in the primary until he became the clear favorite to win.

Or, as Dustin Stockman, proprietor of TeaPartyNet.com, put it at the tepid Monday rally: “I think we’re still warming up to Romney…Frankly he wasn’t most of our first or second choices.”

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1. Kaufman ...... You Lie!!

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2. LOL LOL LOL !!!!!

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3. RomneyRyan, the Tea Party's Perfectly "White" candidates GUARANTEEING generations of

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Tea Partyers by oppressing women's autonomy over their own bodies.

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Here's the racist genealogy of FreedomWorks and the Tea Party: http://www.irehr.org/

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4. The perfect tea party candidate has a funny mustache and speaks german.

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5. Just because Mitt shaves his balls, it doesn't make him a real tea-bagger.

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6. In a sense...

In a sense, Rmoney is the perfect TeaBag candidate. He'll pay lip service to their whacked-out, regressive social views, try to manipulate them on those grounds. But his true purpose is to serve the economic interests of Big Big Money. Isn't that what the 'Bagger movement really is, from its astroturf roots?