Ohio Republicans pick Romney in straw poll

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 22 July 2011 | Joe Vardon

[Ryft]

Ohio Republican Party donors and other attendees at the state GOP's dinner tonight picked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in a straw poll to take on President Barack Obama in 2012. Romney finished comfortably ahead of the Republican field, picking up 25 percent of the vote. When state party chairman Kevin DeWine announced Romney as the winner, a few people in the audience booed. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (16 percent) finished second, followed by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (15 percent).

[ken21]

they must have full employment.

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[Paladin2]

Perry wins:

[cardinal4]

I don’t know one single person who is backing Romney. Not a single one. The guy hasn’t even been in the public eye for a month, and wins an Ohio GOP straw poll?! Pull the other one!

[mom4melody]

I’m in Ohio - no one I know is backing Romney either.

[jacknhoo]

I’ll never vote for Romney or any other RINO. I would just as soon leave Obama in offfice as to vote for a socialist.

[ansel12]

In a statement emailed to the press before tonight's event, the Ohio Democratic Party focused on Kasich's absence.
"It's quite telling that a Governor with a 35 percent approval rating would run and hide from his own Party's biggest fundraising event of the year," said Seth Bringman, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party.

35% might not be a problem to the Ohio GOP, Romney left office with 34% approval, and they want to promote him to president.

[ReneeLynn]

Don’t try to force a candidate on us GOP. Do not try it.

[cripplecreek]

Given some of the options the GOP is trying to foist on us, they’ll just slow the slide Obama has us on but won’t stop it.

[buccaneer81]

This was in Cleveland, folks. The Voinovich-DeWine RINO sheeple are the ones you’re reading about.

[Salvavida]

If I were the Tea Party, I’d start pushing people into the election integrity business.

[Jaidyn]

I’m another one from Ohio who doesn’t know anyone who prefers Romney.

[ken21]

hmmmmm.

[EternalVigilance]

[EternalVigilance]

Republican Party donors

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

[ngat]

Interesting thought. If more tea-party type congressmen were to be elected to the House in 2012, and the Senate went republican with a solid majority, would conservative interests be better served with Obama still in office or a republican like Romney?

[cripplecreek]

Phoney hispanic "republican" front group encourages the GOP to use the "un American" tea partiers and then toss us aside.

How Un-American is the TEA PARTY

Are they so “irrational” and merely a self-centered group revolutionary geezers that do not hold American ideal and thus attack our American values—Democracy, Capitalism and Constitutionalism. Strategically, it seems like the right thing to do for Republican to utilize the Tea Party to diminish Obama’s agenda. But it is also time for Republicans that realize that this people merely using the flag colors as facade to promote un-American agenda . While they do have the right to dissent, sadly, their agenda pushed by special interest in Sacramento and D.C. do not embody the original best American values.

[nopardons]

Same here!

[cripplecreek]

BTW you are the tea party, as am I and nearly every other FReeper.

Demand better.

[stboz]

Obvious dain bramage.