Comments on: Romney not quite winning Tea Party support

By: horsey

horsey — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:32:00 +0000

NO ONE BUT PAUL!

By: Jason Sudduth

Jason Sudduth — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:48:00 +0000

That’s sad only 400 showed up. Meanwhile in Philadelphia this past weekend 4,400 Ron Paul supporters showed up in the rain to hear Dr. Paul’s message of liberty.

Ron Paul 2012!!!

By: Yes, Get Smart

Yes, Get Smart — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:49:00 +0000

“the venue was picked to max out the capacity with ease”

This.

By: Yes, Get Smart

Yes, Get Smart — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:47:00 +0000

Meanwhile, a Ron Paul rally in Pittsburgh this weekend pulled in over 4K attendees, a rally on Sunday in Philly is expected to break 10K.

Tell Romney to stop hosting his events in shitty little “symbolic” venues when we all know he can’t hold a candle to people who are supporting the TRUE CONSERVATIVE.

By: Get Smart

Get Smart — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:22:00 +0000

Seating capacity for Franklin Hall is 600. We had to make way for the massive media coverage–so
we could only sell 400 seats and had to turn away hundreds.

Stop spinning lies.

Don Adams, Co-Founder
Independence Hall Tea Party Association

By: Jag

Jag — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:47:00 +0000

We’re occupying your mom, she volunteered.

By: Gerard King

Gerard King — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:43:00 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t realize this was an Occupy page. My mistake.

By: Jag

Jag — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:02:00 +0000

“Occupy, whose core beliefs involve redistrubtion of wealth and seizure of private property”

You’re a dumbass.

By: Gerard King

Gerard King — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:57:00 +0000

You’re probably correct. The Paul event is in front of Independence Hall — a free venue. So, you’re bound get a bigger crowd there, since a lot of people don’t like spending any $ to attend events. Whereas Paul can do an event at Independence Hall because of a lot of his members support Occupy, the same can’t be said of someone like Romney, who would be molested by Occupy. I haven’t met a Romney person yet who has anything but disdain for Occupy, whose core beliefs involve redistrubtion of wealth and seizure of private property. I actually saw more than one Ron Paul shirt on the Occupiers who were trying to get into the Romney event.

By: Gerard King

Gerard King — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:47:00 +0000

Actually, Jack is correct. I was there too. No more room in the inn, as they say. The only way you could have fit more people in there was to have people stand on top of each other. I actually saw them turn a lot of people away at the door, who hadn’t purchased tickets and they otherwise couldn’t accommodate. You might be able to accommodate 600 or 700 if you had people coming and going, but you couldn’t fit more than the number they had in the room at any one time w/ all the press and staff that was in there.

By: Jag

Jag — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:44:00 +0000

Ron Paul is having a rally ain Philly on the 22nd, It will have more people than this rinky dink Romney rally: http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/04/17/ron-paul-to-hold-campaign-rally-on-independence-mall-in-philadelphia/

By: Stephen VanDyke

Stephen VanDyke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:59:00 +0000

The capacity is 700. I’ve seen various photos of the event and think the venue was picked to max out the capacity with ease.

And by the way, Franklin also had this to say, “The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George the III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.”

I have no doubt he would have supported Ron Paul’s quest to end the much loathed Federal Reserve with much enthusiasm.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:37:00 +0000

Unfortunately, you’re wrong. I was in the audience. There was no more room in the room — period. You seem to forget that at any campaign event, you have a large press presence. Add to that a stage, lighting stands, secret service and other security staff, event staff, volunteers, chairs, ailes for people to get to their chairs, secure areas, etc. – and there was not a square foot left in the room. Having rented Franklin Hall several times for my company, the only way you can get the maximum capacity of 600 into the room, is to have people stand shoulder to shoulder. This was a nearly 2-hour sit-down event. And some people were forced to stand in the ailes, because there were no more seats.

By: Stephen VanDyke

Stephen VanDyke — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:51:00 +0000

He has support against Obama in polls because there is a firm anti-Obama sentiment growing in the electorate in general, but the tea party is a large part of that Republican strategy and Romney isn’t close to having their united support.

That’s a fact, Jack.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:24:00 +0000

“Stunning lack of Tea Party support”? The room was entirely sold out. If you had anything but a stunning lack of understanding of history, you would have realized the National Franklin Memorial venue was selected for Tax Day because of the symbolism of Ben Franklin. You know, the Ben Franklin who said nothing is certain but death and taxes? Perhaps you should read more history books than editions of the Atlantic. You should be aware that another Philadelphia institute, the Pew Foundation, which leans lefts, has Romney ahead of Obama in today’s poll. So, Romney hardly has a “stunning” lack of support. Please be true to your website’s name.