In an interview with Newsmax, a popular right-wing source for tea baggers, 2012 GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney told them get in line. Otherwise, “Divide and fail is the result …That would hand over the country to [President] Barack Obama and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid, and that would be very sad indeed.”
He also threw a bone to Ron Paul, but it was wrapped around the inference that Romney is a party insider and Paul is not. “[We] welcome his participation in our party … [We’re] a big tent party.
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