So How Overhyped Will the SRLC Straw Poll Be?

The Constitutional Alamo ^ | 04/10/10 | Michael Naragon

[Publius772000]

The Drudge Report made it the headline story Saturday night: ROMNEY WINS STRAW POLL RESULTS. At the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, the former governor of Massachusetts, who, incidentally, signed into law the state health care system upon which Obamacare is based, narrowly edged Ron Paul in the informal poll of potential GOP candidates for 2012. Sarah Palin was third in the polling, with Newt Gingrich finishing out the top four.

Some of the big guns in the conservative movement and the Republican Party will make a big story out of this, as they have been pulling for Romney since the 2008 primaries. Sean Hannity has done a poor job of proclaiming his neutrality, as he continually sings Romney's praises, even going so far as to have the governor come on his radio show to try explain why Romneycare was different from Obamacare. Glenn Beck has done a better job of appearing neutral of late, but his affinity for Romney gushes at times. I tend to think this has something to do with the religious connections between the two LDS men. Rush Limbaugh has been probably the most guarded about his personal preferences for any one candidate, though he came just short of endorsing Romney in the primary season.

Now, Romney has finally won a straw poll, and the floodgates will open. This will be hailed as a very strong indicator for the former governor who now talks about fiscal responsibility and government cutbacks after signing into law a health care system that has bankrupted the insurance industry in Massachusetts...

[JApost]

Hot Air was bought by Romney owned/controlled Salem Communications. Salem Communications owns Salem Radio - hewitt, prager, medved, bennet - all romney sycophants.

[JApost]

“He set up dirty trick front groups to tar his opponents.”

He also had Fox News spending $150 milion+ contribution-in-kind to promote/advocate for his candidacy against huckabee, mccain etc. And they have been promoting romney since before the November 2008 election, i.e. gretchen carlson “asking” guests during the final days of the 2008 campaign: “wouldn’t it have been better for mccain to have chosen romney as v.p.candidate?”

And he had all of so-called “conservative” radio bought off and nat review.

[abigailsmybaby]

LOL

[NormsRevenge]

I hope folks don’t take my comment wrongly, Sean has done a helluva lot of good for the families of the fallen and such.. .. but when it came to giving the base a jolt in California way back when, he mugwumped in there for aRnie.. then later wrings his hands like he is as shocked as anyone how badly the Austrian Oak performed. now we have Fiorina and Whitman, any questions who he will pull for in the primary?

I don’t like to call a spade a shovel, but if I have to .. ;-)

[GenXteacher]

Just say no to northeastern gun-grabbing liberals.

[Publius772000]

Amen to that... we in the South don’t take kindly to it ;)

[LibertarianInExile]

"And his three methods of winning an argument are to (again with the list... sorry): a) make his point and then start repeating the word “Checkmate,” regardless of whether his point should have effectively ended the argument; b) tell his life story, his urban childhood, his grandparents’ persecution as Irish immigrants, his work at radio stations for pennies a day, or some other sob story; or c) explain that he has a “hard break” coming up and he can’t discuss it further. I’m still not quite sure why he’s the 2nd most listened to show, other than he’s apparently really good at selling things on air."

ROFLMAO! You nailed that. I love the appeals to pity/everyman status that he trots out. As if they mean a darn thing logically. My kingdom for a talk show host with a pause button who can strike at the assumptions instead of respond to the claim.