Club For Growth To ‘Mixed Bag’ Romney: You’re On Your Own
Source: Talking Points Memo
If Romney hoped well-heeled conservative advocates would come running to his rescue after his remarks about the poor and middle class sent his campaign into a tailspin, hell have to look elsewhere.
His right-leaning campaign hasnt convinced conservatives that hes one of them, according to Club for Growth president Chris Chocola.
This may sound strange, but were doing nothing to improve his odds, Chocola said Thursday in Washington at a breakfast roundtable hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. Were not really involved in the presidential race.
We didnt make an endorsement in the Republican primary process, not because we didnt want to but because there wasnt a candidate that we thought we could recommend to our members.
Club for Growth perhaps more than any other organization on the right has agggressively supported conservative candidates against incumbent Republicans in an effort to push the GOP toward its pro-business, libertarian brand of conservatism. The groups dissatisfaction with Romney has been well documented.
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phantom power
(25,966 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)that Club for Growth manipulates and uses for their own gains, leaving them nothing but the crazy hateful violent bigots known as the Tea Party, to whom Romney IS playing-up.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)And then they won't support him because he is not conservative enough?
daybranch
(1,309 posts)They will take their money and try tyo buy Congressional and Gubernatorial elections. We must change the majority in the House from republican to democrat .to get the economy moving.