Posted on 04/11/2010 6:58:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney would be the top pick of Republicans meeting here, to square off against US President Barack Obama, if the party primary were held now, officials said Saturday.
Romney edged out Texas Congressman Ron Paul by only one vote -- 439-438 -- to win a nine-candidate race of Republican candidates, according to results of Saturday's test vote at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
Paul and Romney campaigned unsuccessfully for their party's presidential nomination in 2008. It was won, however, by Arizona Senator John McCain, who eventually lost to Democrat Obama.
The preference-indicating exercise -- known as a "straw poll" -- capped three days of addresses at the Southern Republican conference that included sharp criticism of Obama's presidency by leading Republicans and conservative commentators.
A total of 1,806 votes were cast during two days of balloting that ended Saturday, according to Wilson Research Strategies, a national conservative polling firm that conducted the straw poll. Voting was limited to an estimated 3,500 conference delegates from 14 southern US states.
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“Rounding out the field of candidates in the Republican straw poll were Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas; Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico; Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty; Mike Pence, a Republican congressman of Indiana; Romney and Rick Santorum, a former congressman and senator of Pennsylvania”
You said it....they set it up for Romney to win. Where is Sarah? Where is Michelle Bachman? Where is governor Jindal for pete’s sake?!
You and many millions more. This will never happen. Romney would have been a stronger candidate than McCain and he may have beaten Obama. This may have been better for the country in the long run, or perhaps not. It does not matter now. Conservatives are energized and a conservative republican will challenge the Marxist in 2012.
^RepublicanS, in Louisiana...sorry, I was eating an elk burger while typing...one really should choose to do one or the other...
Elk burger? Mmmmm! It’s good fer ya!
Yes it is! The best....
Still own a home in Montana.
Same here! I will NEVER vote for Romney!
ANSWER: Hiding, sending out manipulators,
selling his (ghostwritten) book,
helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
(true to form) attacking the "tea party",
and buying votes in the straw polls.
Same here
It’s been clear for MANY MONTHS (it’s just been there,
‘in the air’) that Romney was the mutual choice of both the
Establishment GOP/Rino Old Guard, AND the MSM, who see him as the most-likely-to-be-doomed replacement for John McCain, who will not be available next time around. They will keep promoting this fiction, this habit of telling us what we believe and prefer, hopiong that this fiction takes on some kind of critical mass and becomes non-fiction.
It ain’t gonna happen this time. But it’ll be fun watching them cluelessly continue hammering home the Romney theme, until repeated polling shows even the RINOs that Romney is outpaced by just about all other candidates.
With his history with “Romneycare”, I can’t believe he even showed up.
Here we go again...they think!!!
“I will NEVER vote for Romney”
Sure you say that now, but if he gets the nod in open primaries—McCain was already 0’s wingman by the time we got to vote in IN—then the Grand Old Par-tay types will be urging everyone to support him, “`the perfect is the enemy of the good’/what are you, sum kinda troll/plant”and the recriminations, and as Profesor Frink might put it, the biting and metal teeth and hurting, well, it starts all over again, like the drowned blonde found in the shower with the empty gallon of Suave shampoo, instructions: `Rinse and Repeat.’
“Agence France-Presse . Mitt speaks frog .”
Thanks, all is explained now!
Well Romney got what he wanted for his $60K investment... the lamestream media calling him the 2012 POTUS candidate.
Not so much.
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