Posted on 04/22/2010 7:32:53 AM PDT by speciallybland
Mitt Romney has a big early lead for the 2012 GOP contest, while more immediately Kelly Ayotte leads for the Senate and John Stephen for Governor in this year's races.
PRESIDENT – NEW HAMPSHIRE – GOP PRIMARY (PPP)
Mitt Romney 39%
Sarah Palin 13%
Newt Gingrich 11%
Mike Huckabee 11%
Ron Paul 7%
Tim Pawlenty 1%
Haley Barbour 1%
Rick Santorum 1%
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Hah! But in the 2008 primary they supported McCain after the supposedly conservative Union Leader endorsed him.
Someone please explain to me the support of Romney, really.
Why does this little state in the Northeast get the first shot at deciding the future leader of the used to be free world?
He is NOT my choice. I want to see a real conservative not another RINO. The republicans better get the act together if they hope to clean house in DC and God knows we need to clean and disinfect both Houses and the WH.
Bad news.
Romney will be a George Bush repeat. If anything, ROmney is probably more liberal than Bush.
That will create another cycle of Republican defeats and Democrat victories.
All NH people know to do is ratify the former failed candidate from the preceding primary. No guts, no glory. I’m surprised they still have the state slogan.
Romney is the consummate rino insider. He does not support repeal of the 0bamacare mandates, a position even worse than McLame. The TP movement must take the lead in opposing this statist. Local groups can begin by at least denouncing his mandate position and than denouncing his candidacy.
We will not be fooled for this election cycle by the msm infiltrators in NH and NE.
He is good looking and rich so nothing else matters.
It doesn’t matter that he hired illegal aliens.
It doesn’t matter that he supported a CAP and Tax plan not much different than the one Obama and the Dems tried to push through.
It doesn’t matter that he implemented a Health Care Plan not much different than the Obamacare plan in Massachusetts and it is bankrupting the state.
It doesn’t matter that he has offered lukewarm support to the tea parties.
It doesn’t matter that he has sat in the background instead of leading while often letting Sarah Palin and other conservatives lead the charge fighting Obama.
It doesn’t matter that he went seemingly overnight from a Pro-Abortion candidate holding fundraisers with Planned Parenthood and NARAL and a hero of gay rights activists to a socially conservative Presidential candidate.
So many conservatives are dupes. I’m embarrassed but they are the same types that supported Mark Warner in VA. They are stupid and nearly as shallow as any on the left.
The NH GOP threw away many oportunities since 2000 on national and state inititives. All fat hogs at the trough.
The important thing in NH to learn is this is what the national landscape has become due to the liberal marxist agenda taught in schools. The GOP is toast here in NH, I have attended local and state meetings to really get my own view of the Party. The NH conservative is so screwed. I now consider myself an independant, the GOP in NH is a nest of do-nothing RINO’s content to win the election and protect the “party”. The GOP only cares about the GOP, not you or I the tax payer. The only thing I see in the middle of the road is yellow stripes and dead animals, I now add the NH GOP to that list of dead things in the middle of the road.
“The important thing in NH to learn is this is what the national landscape has become due to the liberal marxist agenda taught in schools.”
Exactly right. I saw the Marxists in College back in the 1960’s. But I went to a state school and thought it was an abberration.
Now I know better.
Back then the Elementary and High Schools were relatively untouched.
That has all changed.
I think a step in the right direction would SOMEWAY to forbid civil servants, including teachers, from forming labor unions.
The NEA and its spawn on the state level have augmented the drift to the left.
We need a program to take back the schools and find a way to challenge “Academic Freedom” as the ability of Marxist professors and teachers to monopolize the educational process.
” The only thing I see in the middle of the road is yellow stripes and dead animals,”
I LOVE that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mitt Romney 39%
Sarah Palin 13%
Newt Gingrich 11%
Mike Huckabee 11%
Ron Paul 7%
Tim Pawlenty 1%
Haley Barbour 1%
Rick Santorum 1%
Palin and Santorum are the only good ones. Barbour could never win. Newt is a phony.
I am so sick of New Hampshire. Screw that entire RINO state (no offense to actual conservatives in that state, but I would be just as opposed to starting our decision on the Republican nominee with a vote in my state of California, too).
At the end of the day, I’d be very suprised if Romney won the nomination - especially after Obamacare passed Congress - it’s too much like Romneycare, which has been a disaster in Massachusetts.
Sarah Palin has a pleasant way of causing grief and heartburn to liberal Democrats (painting them as weak and ridiculous), much like Reagan did - and this is a very good thing. This is something Romney CAN NOT do!
I first heard that line from a 90 year lady I met in Northern Missippi a few years ago. Sure does sum up some things
The Party here is just a bunch of sloths with no real plan. It is still dominated by the crowd that reeks the stench of loser upon them. No plans, no vision, no victory.
As for the past NH GOP members, they really did enjoy a fight and literally did not mind getting arrested, Phil Drake a NH GOP Offical in the mid sixties, entered a GOP float in a LABOR Day parade in Rochester, NH to protest a “union” holiday and was arrested for not having a permit and had his jeep and float confiscated.
The only thing John Sununu would get arrested for these days would be for driving too slow in Hampton Falls or missing a meal or a round of golf at the Abenaqui if it were a crime
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