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The RNC Presidential Straw Poll Is Here
FITS News ^ | January 25, 2014

Posted on 01/25/2014 11:24:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 01/25/2014 11:24:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All three of the categories are described in terms that are totally dishonest.


2 posted on 01/25/2014 11:34:49 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I say this is dumb as hell. Condi Rice? Mitch Daniels? TPaw? The retired Ron Paul? Gingrich again?! Why not have me and Bob McDonnell on the freakin’ list? RNC sucks as usual.

Narrow it down to people who are actually going to run instead of people who’ve already declared retirement and those who’ve left the political circuit altogether.
Here is a shortened list of actual candidates.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
Neurosurgeon and author Ben Carson
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas)
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (God, please no... no!)
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
Ohio Gov. John Kasich
U.S. Rep. Peter King (New York)
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (Kentucky)
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida)
U.S. Sen. John Thune (S.D.)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

And as much as I hate to say it...

Businessman Donald Trump

Granted, some of these are awful, but at least they are actually possibly going to run. Rob Portman? Give me a freakin’ break. The guy is going to be lucky if he wins reelection next time around.

On this list you have 7 governors, 4 senators, 1 crappy representative, and 2 outsider candidates.
Now obviously we can’t have a field of 14 candidates, so this will be whittled down, but its out of these people who ends up on the debate stage.


3 posted on 01/25/2014 11:36:06 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Arthur McGowan

It’s from FITSnews, a leftist SC publication. Its association with senate candidate Nancy Mace has made me sour on her.


4 posted on 01/25/2014 11:43:49 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Viennacon

Susana Martinez..Excellent choice!!!


5 posted on 01/25/2014 11:44:13 PM PST by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: Viennacon

Carson, Cruz, Haley, Paul, Martinez, and Trump. The rest are RINOs and milquetoasts.


6 posted on 01/25/2014 11:47:04 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Viennacon

I like your work in whittling down the GOP list to a more realistic list. But why did yo not include sen.Ted Cruz?


7 posted on 01/25/2014 11:49:21 PM PST by entropy12 (If you did not vote, you helped elect the community organizer from south side of Chicago.)
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To: VRWC For Truth

Bingo!


8 posted on 01/25/2014 11:50:03 PM PST by entropy12 (If you did not vote, you helped elect the community organizer from south side of Chicago.)
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To: entropy12

Fourth one down ;) And he is the head of the pack for me.


9 posted on 01/25/2014 11:50:24 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I say Ron Paul and Ted Cruz are the only two on the list that looked good to me.


10 posted on 01/25/2014 11:55:10 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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Oops, didn’t see Carson; he’s good too.


11 posted on 01/25/2014 11:56:19 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: VRWC For Truth

Gov. Sarah Palin is a RINO and milquetoast?


12 posted on 01/25/2014 11:57:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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Christie and Cruz are the only two who can fight as nasty, hard and dirty as will be necessary, IMHO.

I supported Cain last time, and Walker has shown pretty good political skills and organizational ability, but if anyone thought the Obama machine could fight hard and nasty they ain’t seen nothin compared to Clinton 2.0

Yeah, I hope I’m wrong, too.


13 posted on 01/25/2014 11:57:24 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy is an idiot, and he doesn’t know that most tea party fiscal conservatives, are also “bible thumpers”.

He doesn’t know the makeup of who is conservative, the non-religious are mostly liberals, so they makeup a much smaller portion of the right, and that of course applies to the tea party as well.


14 posted on 01/25/2014 11:58:27 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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Of course he’s an idiot. He writes for FITS news.

He refers to a very small branch of the party, the Huckabee Akin wing who aren’t fiscally conservative in the least. They’re tiny though, and wield little influence.

The base today is committed to God, the Constitution, and Fiscal sanity.


15 posted on 01/26/2014 12:00:42 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: VRWC For Truth

Haley and Cruz are too liberal for me, I don’t yet trust Paul, outside of his Senate seat.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 12:01:55 AM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: Viennacon

I don’t think that Huckabee has much influence anywhere, some, but nothing big, it was him and Michelle Bachmann that pushed Akin onto us, against the efforts of Palin and the tea party.


17 posted on 01/26/2014 12:05:33 AM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Carson, Cruz, Palin, and West. I am so tired of the GOPe picking Demlite candidates. My selections would most certainly lose in todays toxic environment...we need a revolution...again. Now, rather than later!
18 posted on 01/26/2014 12:09:12 AM PST by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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Haley Barbour...the governor who pardoned wife killers!

This is a joke that he is relevant, right??


19 posted on 01/26/2014 12:09:27 AM PST by RginTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Cruz of course.


20 posted on 01/26/2014 12:15:59 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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