FreedomWorks to protest against Romney - “We have to defend our brand against poseurs"

[jefferson_dem]

FreedomWorks to protest against Romney
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
August 31, 2011 04:31 AM EDT

A top tea party organizing group, FreedomWorks, is planning to protest Mitt Romney’s appearance this weekend at a New Hampshire stop of a bus tour intended to encourage tea party sympathizers to participate in the Republican presidential nominating process.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is among the leading candidates for the GOP presidential nomination, but is viewed warily by tea party activists, who believe him to be insufficiently conservative and particularly blame him for Massachusetts state healthcare overhaul he signed into law.

And Romney, for his part, hasn’t focused much energy on appealing to the movement. So it attracted considerable attention – both within the tea party and among the GOP operative class – when it was announced Tuesday that he intended to speak at a Sunday evening rally being staged by the Tea Party Express in Concord, N.H., as part of a cross country bus tour set to culminate in Tampa, Fla., ahead of a Sept. 12 GOP presidential debate co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express and CNN.

FreedomWorks, which had been participating in the Tea Party Express’s tour and had helped turn out activists at rallies during prior stops, decided it could no longer be affiliated with the tour, said Brendan Steinhauser, a lead organizer for FreedomWorks.

Instead, it began working with local New Hampshire tea party groups to organize a counter rally set for about the same time in the same park in Concord as Romney’s speech.

“We have to defend our brand against poseurs,” said Steinhauser.

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[baldguy]

1. The Tea Party is a "brand" - just like Coca-Cola or Disney.

[glowing]

2. Yep. Posers end up hosting with CNN. When have they ever cosponsored anything

With unions? Or progressive something? Dick Armey calling Mittens a poseur is rich. Wonder which political campaign bought into his lobbying firm