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Picking at Straws(Romney cheats Young Republicans straw poll)
American Spectator ^ | 7/9/2007 | The Prowler

Posted on 07/09/2007 12:59:34 PM PDT by Neville72

If you subtract the 100 or so "guests" former Gov. Mitt Romney brought with him to stuff the ballot box in Florida on Saturday night, Fred Thompson won another straw poll.

As Erick Erickson over at RedState pointed out on Saturday, Romney, struggling in the polls everywhere he isn't spending money on media buys, is reduced to also buying up straw polls to promote his candidacy.

He will have plunked down close to an estimated $5 million to make the Ames Republican Straw Poll in Iowa next month a personal political rally (no other major GOP candidate will be participating), and that includes outbidding by sometimes three times as much his nearest competitor for bus rentals to get his folks into Ames.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: strawpolls; yr
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Just another weird act by an odd-ball candidate who grows more Nixonian every day.
1 posted on 07/09/2007 12:59:35 PM PDT by Neville72
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To: Neville72

Search before posting.

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2 posted on 07/09/2007 1:02:23 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Neville72
As Erick Erickson over at RedState pointed out on Saturday, Romney, struggling in the polls everywhere he isn't spending money on media buys, is reduced to also buying up straw polls to promote his candidacy.
Does this muck-sucking filter feeder called Romney have no shame at all?! The audacity of this guy. It's like he thinks he can cheat his way into the nomination.
3 posted on 07/09/2007 1:02:26 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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To: SteveMcKing
Search before posting.
The article posted here is from the American Spectator. The article you point to is from the Atlantic Online. Hence: this is not a repost. Look, there is a lot of material out there that condemns the scurrilous antics of Mitt Romney, the Republican answer to John Edwards. Please allow people to post it. Otherwise, the Mittwits win, and we can't have that.
4 posted on 07/09/2007 1:05:51 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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To: Neville72

I have a feeling that most of the candidates are doing the same thing.


5 posted on 07/09/2007 1:06:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Asclepius
"Does this muck-sucking filter feeder called Romney have no shame at all?!"
 

And you're so ostensibly better.... Don't offer evidence- you just are.

6 posted on 07/09/2007 1:08:35 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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I got no horse in this race yet, but this is getting increasingly bizarre. The attacks on Romney are just weird. Now this article is attacking him for . . . the other candidates not entering the Iowa race. How can that be his fault?


7 posted on 07/09/2007 1:11:51 PM PDT by Owen
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... And you're so ostensibly better ...
Better than Romney, yes. But that's not saying much. So is everyone else, except Romney. Romney is the sort of scum who steals elections. Do we need the sort of scum who steals elections stealing the GOP nomination? I think I would take issue with that.
8 posted on 07/09/2007 1:11:58 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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To: cripplecreek

“I have a feeling that most of the candidates are doing the same thing.”

Really? Which candidate has invaded a convention with non-members and stuffed the ballot to hijack a straw poll...just so he can generate fake good news?

Waiting patiently for your answer............


9 posted on 07/09/2007 1:13:41 PM PDT by Neville72 (uist)
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To: cripplecreek

I can’t speak for all campaigns but I know the ones I am in touch with are not doing it except Romney who thinks he can bribe his way to a nomination.


10 posted on 07/09/2007 1:13:41 PM PDT by CTK YKC
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"Better than Romney, yes. But that's not saying much. So is everyone else, except Romney. Romney is the sort of scum who steals elections. Do we need the sort of scum who steals elections stealing the GOP nomination? I think I would take issue with that."
 

Well, I'm voting for him.   I don't care what you say.

11 posted on 07/09/2007 1:15:22 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Owen
I got no horse in this race yet, but this is getting increasingly bizarre.
How many times are you going to repeat this line? I can understand why you would not want to state explicitly that your horse is Mitt Romney. I mean, who would want to publicly associate themselves with Mitt Romney!? (Yikes!) But I think it is interesting how whenever honest criticism of this despicable low life is offered in order to enrich our understanding of the coming election, you start shrieking about how unfair this is to the very person who is acting unfairly, Mitt Romney.
12 posted on 07/09/2007 1:15:57 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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Better than Romney, yes. But that's not saying much. So is everyone else, except Romney. Romney is the sort of scum who steals elections. Do we need the sort of scum who steals elections stealing the GOP nomination? I think I would take issue with that.

So who do you like? Hillary?
Or do you just dislike Mormons, on GP?
13 posted on 07/09/2007 1:16:21 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Owen

“Now this article is attacking him for . . . the other candidates not entering the Iowa race. How can that be his fault?”

Nice disembling. The article attacks Weird Mitt for attempting to buy fake publicity by packing a YR straw poll with bussed-in, bought and paid for 60 and 70 years olds.

It’s pathetic, creepy and Nixonian


14 posted on 07/09/2007 1:18:59 PM PDT by Neville72 (uist)
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To: SteveMcKing
Well, I'm voting for him. I don't care what you say.
Is he paying you too? How nice for you. I suppose if the price was right I would vote for Romney too. But since it would take more than Romney's net worth to buy my vote, I can safely infer that my vote must be a lot more expensive than yours.
15 posted on 07/09/2007 1:19:29 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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So who do you like? Hillary? Or do you just dislike Mormons, on GP?
Is Hillary a Republican candidate in your world? What colour is the sky in your world? Oh, and I love how you suddenly play the victim card. I don't like Romney; ergo: I hate Mormons. Romney's Mormonism is the only thing that remotely humanizes the man. But it is not enough for me to ever vote for him.
16 posted on 07/09/2007 1:23:14 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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You're not even good at calling Romney bad names. You're awful at it.
 
"I can safely infer that my vote must be a lot more expensive than yours."
 
Infer this.


17 posted on 07/09/2007 1:26:52 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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lol!

You made me choke on my sandwich!

18 posted on 07/09/2007 1:27:57 PM PDT by The Blitherer (What would a Free Man do?)
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To: Neville72

Romney is bright and articulate, but few know who he is, and some of them do not agree with his positions.

He has to win an early primary or he will be toast.


19 posted on 07/09/2007 1:29:36 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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You're not even good at calling Romney bad names. You're awful at it.
Yes. I know. I leave the name calling and dishonesty to Romney and his grotesquely inarticulate partisans. What they lack in intellect and integrity they make for in lies and rage.
20 posted on 07/09/2007 1:30:31 PM PDT by Asclepius (Every time someone criticizes Mitt Romney, an angel gets its wings)
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