Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (R) praised the Tea Party movement and then asked them not to run as third party candidates in the general elections. Romney explained, “if a conservative tea party candidate runs in a general election, that would siphon votes away from a Republican candidate, and ‘divide and fail is the result.’” Romney asks Tea Partiers to run in the primaries but if they lose they should back the Republican candidate. Third party candidates traditionally don’t pose serious threats to win general elections.
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