Barbour: Romney "not a true frontrunner"

CBS News ^ | November 13, 2011 | Lucy Madison .

[2ndDivisionVet]

Despite Mitt Romney's consistently placing at or near the top in polls of the GOP presidential field, Governor Haley Barbour, R-Miss., says he's "not a true frontrunner" - even if he is "the best known of our candidates."

Barbour, in a Sunday appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," said there is no real frontrunner amid the 2012 GOP candidates, in part because he thinks Republicans are more focused on unseating President Obama than picking a candidate who shares their views.

"This [election] reminds me of a lot of past Democratic presidential contests, like Jimmy Carter in '76, Bill Clinton in '92, where there is not really a frontrunner," Barbour said. "Mitt Romney is the best known of our candidates. Not a true frontrunner. What we see people doing more than I've ever seen in my life is, instead of saying which one agrees with me most, which one do I like the most, they're saying, which one has the best chance to beat Obama?"

Barbour said voters are "going through 'Cinderella trying on the slipper' with the other candidates in the field, but that ultimately "after we've gone through that cycle, people will seriously focus on, is it really Romney who is the most electable or is there somebody else that has come out there that I think has the best chance to beat Obama?(continued)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Not if we just get a slightly more qualified caucasian, Mormon version of Mr. Obama.

[EagleUSA]

CBS can choke on it. The first priority for this nation is getting Obama and his Marxist mob out of Washington. If that does not happen, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS because there will not be a free America to worry about....this is the most important election in the history of this country, and the very existence of this nation as a free Republic is hanging in the balance.

[DaxtonBrown]

I am sore tempted to vote against Romney in the general if he is shoved down our throats by the elite. I might even campaign against him.

I’m sure the GOP elites have been warned that Romney will split the party. Romney ensures Obamacare will survive - sorry, no can do, I’m not taking that bullet for the team and I’m sure many more will stay home too. Why would I prop up Romney just to see that legislative abortion proceed?

And no, I won’t vote for a Mormon for president either, I will not help validate that religion. Sorry, ignore the Evangelicals at your own peril country clubbers.

Plus he is a flip flopper.

What could go wrong with a Romney candidacy?

[bigbob]

he’s not EVEN the front-runner in many polls

[2ndDivisionVet]

There might be a third party [cough! Sarah Palin] campaign if Milt or Huntsman get the nomination.

[BagCamAddict]

And Romney puts his dog in a crate and ties the crate to the roof of the Station Wagon for an 8-hour cross-country family vacation.

Sorry, no way.

[fortheDeclaration]

That moron did that?

[DaxtonBrown]

[There might be a third party [cough! Sarah Palin] campaign if Milt or Huntsman get the nomination.]

Dear friend, I think you mispoke saying Romney would ‘get the nomination’. I would phrase that as ‘if Romney is weasled into the nomination by the power brokers’. Romney really couldn’t stand on his own without the rejiggering of the early elections, without Palin and Cain (and even Bachman) being blackballed and labeled crazies (see Rovian ethics), without the fat old cats propping up the Romney zombie campaign. I think the elites have pulled this crap too many times (see dead eye Dole, Compassionate Bush, living corpse Mccain), I think the ea Party will be livid if Romney is shoved up our behinds without KY as now seems to be te plan.

[Lady4Liberty]

[marron]

He is only a “front-runner” in the sense that the professional Repubs are promoting him. Its hard to see anyone as “front-runner” who isn’t supported by the rank and file.

The professionals really don’t like or trust the rank and file of their own party. They’d rather lose to the Dems than let us pick our own candidate even if that candidate wins.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[wardaddy]

no matter how his two rivals fare Romney can’t get over 23-32%

one of them drops out and he is in trouble

bet he knows this

he is no dummy...time was Bain did well....I know some folks here got rich with them

[mkjessup]

As I understand the story, Mitt-Witt tied the family Irish Setter (inside a crate, dog carrier, whatever) to the luggage rack of their station wagon for a 12 hour drive from Massachusetts to Ontario Canada. Apparently the dog didn't appreciate it, as one of Romney's kids called out at one point "Dad? There's something brown coming off the roof of the car!" which mean that the dog was crapping up there from on top of the luggage rack as they sailed down the highway, which is a fine metaphor of what Romney himself has been doing to America in his presidential campaigns.

Mitt-Witt needs to join his own father in the history books as a presidential candidate that never made it to the White House.

[BagCamAddict]

Yep. Google it.

[CainConservative]

True dat!

New poll coming out tomorrow: Cain has really slid will be the MSM spin!!!

Herman Cain 27% ( c ;

Mitt Romney 25%

Rick Perry 14%

Newt Gingrich 14%

Ron Paul 5%

Michele Bachmann 2%

Rick Santorum 2%

Jon Huntsman *

UNSURE/REFUSED 9%

George Washington University Battleground Poll of 1,000 likely voters, including 436 Republicans, was conducted Nov. 6-9 by The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners. The nationwide telephone survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

[goat granny]

Yep Dole was a real winner, yep McCain was a real winner, both establishment rino’s. no more of those for me..

[newzjunkey]

And no, I won’t vote for a Mormon for president either...

There's the real reason you're against him. The others are smoke and mirrors.

[newzjunkey]

Welcome, noob.

George Washington University Battleground Poll of 1,000 likely voters, including 436 Republicans

It doesn't say much for how Republicans will vote, however, if less than half those polled are Republicans.

[CainConservative]

When Perry, Bachmann, and Santorum drop out after the first one, two, or three states, Cain will expand his lead over Romney significantly, imho.

Anyway.. heading out to Iowa tomorrow to work for the Cain team for a month and a half or so...I'll try to sway the good folks of Iowa again as we did for the Huckaboom. They do love to listen and can spot phonies a mile away..aka Rombots.

[CainConservative]

LOL!

The results were FROM the 436 Repubs.