Romney rallies the GOP base: "We are going to continue to be the Party of revolutionaries".

In his attempt to rev up the party faithful, Romney today said the GOP fight to regain power is a continuation of the U.S. war of independence, casting the Democrats as the loyalists and Republicans as the patriots. “We are the party of the revolutionaries. They’re the party of the monarchists,” Romney said. “They are the party that believes government knows best and that government is the sovereign. And we are the party that believes the people and free people and people pursuing their own dreams are what make America the strongest nation and most powerful nation on earth…and we are going to continue to be revolutionaries.”

Though he acknowledged that it will be difficult for the GOP to significantly impact the Obama agenda in the near-term without control of Congress, Romney maintained glass half-full perspective. “We have an advantage and I don’t know that we recognize it as such. When you have the White house as a party , pretty much all the ideas and the course for your party is going to come out of the White House…communication comes top down. Everybody else has to march behind,” Romney said. “We have the opportunity instead to come from the grass roots and listen to the people and to look at different options for different strategies by listening to the people of America and having different voices and different Republicans and different leaders step forward and that’s what we are going to do. We are not going to have just one idea that comes from one place.