Posted on 08/13/2010 9:39:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney - believed by many political observers to be a clear GOP front-runner in the 2012 presidential race - is virtually in a dead heat with contender Sarah Palin, according to a new CNN poll.
The poll shows Romney only 3 percentage points in front of former Alaska Gov. Palin, within the margin of error.
“It’s a pretty open contest, and that’s interesting in and of itself,” said Suffolk University political professor John C. Berg. “It means the primary contest will be tighter.”
Only months from the unofficial start of the 2012 presidential campaign, Romney has shown strong fund-raising and was tapped as the front-runner at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year.
But Berg said that the close poll figures could signal a tough fight between Republicans during the primary.
“There’s still the desire in both parties to try to get it locked up early . . . so they can focus on attacking the other party - but that’s a ways away,” Berg said.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll of 1,009 adults nationwide was conducted between Aug. 6 and Aug. 10.
LOL. He works behind the scenes to slam her and cause trouble for her. I’m sure she’s aware.
Nope, he’ll not get my vote....I voted McCain and suffered doing so...hardest vote I ever cast. I do not not want to ever have to do that again..I got no pleasure in that.
Romney will not do well in the debates either...like McCain he’ll play nicey nicey and hand over the election like McDunderhead did.....he just has no backbone and you can bet that Hitlary or Bo will come out swinging.
If the situation weren’t so grave in this election I’d love to see Sarah take on Hitlary....now that would be a showdown.
Hucklebee is too whimpy as well...whoever runs has got to be bold and strong...and play with a full deck.
You make a very good point. Aren’t we tired of DC insiders? It never stops amazing me how people complain and complain about their leadership and then when it comes time and they have an option then they complain the outsider isn’t and insider. Sarah has some magic and I get a sense she is just getting stronger as a person. She is pretty amazing especially when you step back in your mind and look at the progression of events. She took calculated risks and didn’t retreat back to the safety of her cocoon after resigning she instead put herself in the place she needed to be to improve her comfort level and ability to deliver.
The are some who step on the stage of history that are just something apart. Sarah is one of those individuals and there is a power to her that I don’t think many have even come close to realizing.
I’m certainly with you. I don’t want to settle. I want to settle a score.
Yeah..I’ve seen him slam her...and he does so underhandedly..not quite calling a spade a spade but picks at the edges.
Do you realize that none of your posts addressed this thread topic, or politics or the candidates mentioned?
Personal attacks, trolling, and attempted thread hijacking is what you did here.
I doubt that either will be the Republican pick for President.
Not sure who will be at this point, but arguing about it is fruitless. Both could be or neither...so, let’s just forget it and get along with knocking out the Democrats that have destroyed the nation...and that is easy...if your a Democrat, you are to be destroyed...
I don’t think Obama is going to be the Democrat nominee. Whoever the Republican is who runs in 2012 won’t be running against Obama, but someone else. Hillary maybe, but not Obama.
Actually Palin can win elections, it is Romney that has only one win in his life and he did not get 93% approval ratings, he left office with a 34% approval rating.
Working to get Mitt Romney to enter the 2008 race, and then serving as a senior advisor to his campaign, and serving as Lindsey Graham's co-chairman for his campaign, has given DeMint a lot of experience, but he doesn't seem to have the charisma for a serious Presidential run.
I will not vote for Willard
ever
He was in Iowa having his kodak moment behind somebody’s grill.
Tried flipping a chicken breast, which falls to the ground. After fishing it out from the dirt, and to everyones horror, he drops it back down on the grill.
Pissant must be on vacation without his laptop!
“Just imagine the numbers if Governor Romney were being attacked and abused 24/7 or if Governor Palin wasn’t...”
This is a CNN poll of 1009 “ADULTS”. As Onyx points out, 22% of CONSERVATIVES in this fishwrap poll are voting for Obama. So it is garbage in the premises.
Second, and even more importantly, even if this were a legitimate poll (which it most assuredly is not) there has been no campaign. A vetting of the issues including Mitt Romney’s socialist medicine scheme in Massachusetts, not to mention his facilitation of gay marriage there makes him un-nominatable in a GOP primary. The fact that CNN and the MSM continue to try to pump him up shows just how clueless they are. He can’t win. Period. He has no more of a chance than Arlen Specter.
Look for the MSM to continue to try to promote him and Huckabee, though. They are desperately casting about for someone ...anyone to oppose Palin. I noticed they even had little Scott Conroy who wrote a book slamming Palin and was even caught stalking Piper Palin as she got off her school bus. In his article, he tries to pump up Huckabee as a “player” based on Nathan Deal’s razor thin win in Georgia, even trying to say with a straight face that if Joe Miller beats Murkowski in Alaska that he will have Huckabee to thank for it. He conveniently forgets that Huck rolled snake eyes in Iowa and South Carolina. Conroy looks to have been better at stalking than at political prognostication. Poor little guy.
Believe me, if Huck runs (which I rather doubt) he is going to have 1000 pardons and Maurice Clemmons and Wayne Dumond hung around his neck, not to mention his nanny state policies in Arkansas and big spending. He has no constituency at all with Sarah Palin in the race. and he has a boxcar full of baggage.
Sarah Palin is a terrific candidate, as any objective observer can see (”Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism”, by David Broder)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002451.html
She would be the favorite against ANY GOP challenger in just about any year. The fact that she is matched against political lightweights like Romney, Huckabee and Gingrich makes her the odds on favorite. (Don’t try to tell me how serious Gingrich is. He doesn’t believe in much of anything. And he plagiarizes lines from his ex-wife). He is serious only because the MSM has declared him so. These three are, one and all, creatures of the MSM, created for one purpose: to allow the MSM to pick the candidates of both parties as they did in 2008 so that they have a “win, win” situation.
They can only get away with that in a year when there is no transformational candidate. They almost killed Reagan’s candidacy in 1980 but that was before talk radio, the internet and cable TV when the MSM and the Washington Establishment was much more powerful. This year, they face Sarah Palin, who is a virtuoso in all three of these new media. In spite of their efforts to destroy her, which surpass even their attempts in 1980 to get Reagan, they simply cannot accomplish it. She is both too talented and her political instincts are too good. And they have no alternative. At least in 1980, they had George Bush (not a superlative candidate but as good as Gingrich, Romney, Huck, et al and WITHOUT THE BAGGAGE) to try to take Reagan down. In 2012, they have NOBODY. And you can’t beat something with nothing.
here we go with the old tired nominees thanks to the media. Mitt Romney—RINO—go away.
Look for the MSM to continue to try to promote him and Huckabee, though. They are desperately casting about for someone ...anyone to oppose Palin. I noticed they even had little Scott Conroy who wrote a book slamming Palin and was even caught stalking Piper Palin as she got off her school bus. In his article, he tries to pump up Huckabee as a “player” based on Nathan Deal’s razor thin win in Georgia, even trying to say with a straight face that if Joe Miller beats Murkowski in Alaska that he will have Huckabee to thank for it. He conveniently forgets that Huck rolled snake eyes in Iowa and South Carolina. Conroy looks to have been better at stalking than at political prognostication. Poor little guy.
Hickabee's endorsement for Joe Miller in Alaska!
Mike Huckabee
I [am] pleased to support Joe Miller for U.S. Senate from Alaska. A former State Magistrate and Federal Judge, Joe possesses a deep understanding of the law, but more importantly understands its impact on the people...With the federal government encroaching quickly into every aspect of our lives – we need Joe in the U.S. Senate to help Congress make the correct decisions to bring Washington back to the limited role envisioned by the Founding Founders...Please join me in supporting Joe Miller – let’s make him Alaska’s next Senator.
The more the better. We just want Joe Miller to defeat Lisa Nurkowsky! At least Huck got this race right. Sha-zam!
BUMP!
BUMP
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
The Wall Street, big gov, big tax, big Washington back Mitt. He’s lusted for the office, pushed by family and church, and has proved himself over the decades as a ethically flexible and unprincipled. Their kind of guy. He’s never once gone against any power structure, unlike Palin. In their eyes, he is a ‘ team player’. He’s not, in thier eyes, baggaged with any of that silly conservative stuff. He’s a modern model Mormon of malleable morals.
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