{"id":14498,"date":"2012-06-29T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14498"},"modified":"2012-06-29T16:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T20:30:28","slug":"mitt-romney-and-the-tea-party-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14498","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney And The Tea Party Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/29\/romney-rnc-raise-4-3-million-after-scotus-decision\/\">Hot Air<\/a>\u00a0posted a story today about the impact of yesterday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare on Governor Romney&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fundraising\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundraising\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">fundraising<\/a>. After the Supreme Court released its decision, the Romney campaign raised $4.3 million from 43,000 donations in less than a day. Wow. I guess there are a lot of people who don&#8217;t like Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>The article at Hot Air also cites a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Roll Call\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Roll Call<\/a> article about the impact of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supreme Court of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8907083333,-77.0043444444 (Supreme%20Court%20of%20the%20United%20States)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court&#8217;s<\/a> ruling on Obamacare on the Tea Party:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In upholding most of President Barack Obama\u2019s health care law, the Supreme Court handed the tea party a new lease on life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>While activists spouted made-for-TV rancor through megaphones outside the court Thursday, the behind-the-scenes strategists who helped <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Republican Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans<\/a> take the House in 2010 prepared for a flood of donations they said will fuel even greater gains this November. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The movement, born in 2009 from the opposition to the health care overhaul, has developed a professionalism that few expected, attracting seasoned operatives and winning allies in Congress. Vitriolic protests have taken a back seat to well-executed fundraising campaigns. Groups such as the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tea Party Express\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teapartyexpress.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Party Express<\/a> have raised tens of millions of dollars on the promise of derailing the health care law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>And, in many ways, Thursday\u2019s ruling is exactly what they had been training for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is not political, but I think they just re-energized the November election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=67339c28-4f5c-40bb-958f-db0a5e743454\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air\u00a0posted a story today about the impact of yesterday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision on Obamacare on Governor Romney&#8217;s fundraising. After the Supreme Court released its decision, the Romney campaign raised $4.3 million from 43,000 donations in less than a day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,2979,7,134,365,274,933,1251],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-mittromney","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-republicans","tag-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-states","tag-tea-party-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14500,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions\/14500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}