Tea Party Express Founder: "the Tea Party Will Back Mitt"

March 21, 2012 - PRLog -- .
(Sacramento, CA.)  Speaking on RT Television’s Thom Hartmann Program, Tea Party Express founder and former chairman, Mark Williams, said that if Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president that he will have Tea Party support.

In answering charges from Romney critics that the former Massachusetts Governor is not "conservative enough", Williams said that such concerns are not valid because "...the Tea Party rank and file has moved on...to taking over individual Republican committees and districts across the country".  In the meantime, he said, that the Tea Party will have sufficient leverage over a President Romney to "buy our country time".

"We'll have enough muscle on the Hill (Congress) to spay or neuter whomever is sitting the the Oval Office"  said Williams.

According to Williams - who is still active in the movement - the long term Tea Party strategy is to dominate the "estuaries" that result in future candidates.  Those "estuaries" he identifies as local, regional and state GOP infrastructure.  According to Williams, "You can't take the White House until you control local, state and federal offices."   He added: "Once every dog catcher, city councilman, state legislator and appointees at all levels are ours we will then control the political food chain for generations...the People will then regain control over the Congress, the Courts and the Oval Office."

The outspoken radio and television host and author says that the tug of war within the Tea Party movement is a manifestation of “establishment” Republicans “that are just as bad as anything that the Tea Party dislikes about Barack Obama.”  

In his book “Taking Back America One Tea Party at a Time” and in his media appearances, Williams rips what he calls the “culture of non-involvement” as “a chief cause of Obama’s presidency”.   “Somewhere along the line it became trendy to declare one’s self ‘independent’ and consider voting between choices made by those who bothered to show up the extent of our citizenship duties.”  He added that anybody who calls themselves “independent” has “abrogated their obligations as Americans.”  

Of those who maintain that their views in this political season are “moderate” he has even harsher words:  “While those who don’t participate are lazy or misguided those who can’t pick a side in this epic assault on Good by Evil and principle less and immoral.”   His advice to them is to “Go back to watching American Idol, you’re useless.”

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Mark Williams is a veteran opinion journalist and author of the definitive account of the Tea Party, the issues and the stakes:  “Taking Back America One Tea Party at a Time”
Please visit http://www.MarkTalk.com for the video from the Thom Hartmann program and more information on Mark and “Taking Back America One Tea Party at a Time”
Promo copies of the book are available for the media.
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