It was this guy.
Posted on 04/11/2015 1:01:10 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won the Charleston County Republican Party’s straw poll Saturday as the GOP came together to organize ahead of the 2016 election season....
....Saturday’s convention was part of the regular business of the party. The straw poll was loosely conducted with about 240 delegates eligible to take part.
Presidential hopeful Walker was recently in Charleston where he spoke out against unions and in support of Gov. Nikki Haley. He drew 24 votes or about 10 percent of the total.
The next top finishers were: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, 20 votes; R-Ky., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., 18 votes; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, 11 votes; and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., eight votes. U.S. Sen Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., finished at the bottom with one vote. Straw votes are not considered scientific.
One potential presidential candidate did show up to the gathering, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who got three votes. He told the group that two of the biggest issues next year will be confronting radical Islam abroad and defending religious liberty at home.
Radical Islam “seeks to destroy everything you believe in,” said Santorum. He has not formally declared he’ll run for president in 2016 but was visiting multiple county convention sites Saturday, including the Berkeley County GOP.....
(Excerpt) Read more at postandcourier.com ...
Be careful about “fraudulent” moral equivalencing.
Perhaps someone in SC who went to one will post.
That’s how Iowa straw vote was years ago. People are picking precinct chairs and volunteering or competing for other party tasks. Straw votes are pretty informal and almost just for fun. Party regulars might consider them a distraction from less glamorous but necessary business.
Depends on how the vote was taken. A public vote might have potential party officers afraid to take a public stand for or against a candidate, especially this early. The tally may not have even been official.
We’ve got one now. I don’t want another.
On the issue of illegal immigration, they hold the same view.
Neither wants to send them back. Neither states they want an out and out amnesty.
“This has become so predictable.”
What’s more predictable is the fact that the majority of conservatives are Mammon worshippers. Money, money, money. That’s all they care about.
They sit on their fat butts and never, ever attend schoolboard meetings or county board meetings, and then they bitch about liberal teachers in schools and high local property taxes.
And ask these Mammon-worshipping conservatives to part with a few thousand bucks to promote conservative causes and they run away like hell.
Our Founders pledged their fortunes and sacred honor under life-threatening circumstances. The so-called conservatives today can’t even pry their fat, useless butts away from the barbecue grill.
Then they aren’t Conservatives.
He doesn’t have to say “he’ll send them back.” All he’s gotta do is enforce e-verify and implement real border security. The illegals will self-deport on their own.
Then why doesn’t he specifically state that? He’s had plenty of opportunity.
He says that people who are here now should be able to remain here.
He makes no comment that I have seen stating his strict enforcement of e-verify will cause them to self-deport.
Methinks if Santorum is the only one to show up at this event, finishes in 6th place or worse, he ought to step out now with dignity.
“Then they aren’t Conservatives.”
Indeed. We need tough, hard core conservatives to win this fight. May The Lord bless our ranks with them by the hundreds of thousands.
I’m pretty sure there are cruz people that would urge him to run as an independent if walker wins the nomination, despite the certainty that it would put hillary (or whoever) in the white house.
a lot of these folks aren’t supporting political candidate, they’re organizing a cult.
I second your thoughts...
It was this guy.
gone already on my end
So let me see now, you want to blame his record on me?
How about looking at it honestly, and placing the blame where it belongs.
I didn’t develop his immigration policies. I didn’t make them public. I didn’t say all illegals here should remain. I didn’t state that they should have to get in back of a line they can’t possibly get behind, because that line starts outside the nation.
What is it with you folks? The info is out there. I’m not the bad guy because I can read and you can’t.
Yeah, bad image.
It was a gay looking guy.
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