Posted on 01/05/2008 2:14:53 PM PST by Vision
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most of Wyoming's delegates at stake in GOP caucuses on Saturday. The former Massachusetts governor won six of the first eight delegates to be selected. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and California Rep. Duncan Hunter won one apiece, meaning no other candidate could beat Romney. Caucuses were still being held to decide all 12 delegates at stake.
The win was a boost for Romney, coming two days after his loss to Mike Huckabee in the Iowa caucuses and three days before the first-in-the- nation primary in New Hampshire. Those two states have attracted most of the political attention. Wyoming had scheduled its GOP county conventions earlier to attract candidates to the state but had only modest results.
Romney visited Wyoming in August and November and three of his five sons campaigned in the state. One son, Josh Romney, owns a ranch in southwest Wyoming.
"Number one, he campaigned here," delegate Leigh Vosler of Cheyenne said of Romney. "I think that helped while some other candidates ignored us. But also he's the right person for the job."
Hunter, Thompson and Ron Paul all stopped by the statevisits they probably wouldn't have made except for this year's early conventionsand candidates have sent Wyoming's GOP voters a flood of campaign mail. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, did not visit Wyoming and drew little support. Arizona Sen. John McCain and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also did not visit and received little support.
"I think we're encouraged that the voters in Wyoming value that my dad had spent time here," Josh Romney said.
The traditional leadoff nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire have dominated the attention of both candidates and the national media in recent months, and no candidates had visited Wyoming in the four weeks leading up to the caucuses. Hunter was the last to visit the state on Dec. 4.
Tom Sansonetti, the county convention organizer, maintained Saturday that moving the state's caucuses ahead was the right thing to do.
"The ultimate goal is not how many times we appear on Katie Couric," Sansonetti said. "The ultimate goal was to have attention paid to rank-and-file Republicans by national candidates."
In addition, he said more Wyoming Republicans have become involved in the process.
Wyoming Republicans also paid a price for jumping ahead. The Republican National Committee has slashed half of Wyoming's 28 national convention delegates. National party leaders similarly penalized Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and South Carolina for moving up the dates of their nomination contests.
RNC rules require the punishment for states that hold their nominating contests earlier than Feb. 5. Iowa, which held caucuses on Thursday, will not be penalized because, technically, the caucuses are not binding on convention delegates. Nevada, which plans to hold its caucuses on Jan. 19, will not be penalized for the same reason.
Besides the 12 delegates chosen at Saturday's county conventions, two delegates to be chosen at a statewide convention in May will also be sent to the national convention in Minneapolis.
14, with possibly 14 more. All 16 of those would be 13 "at large" and 3 State Representatives decided at WY May 31 state convention. As of now, only two will be. The twelve up today are county district votes.
I have a feeling many conservatives will vote Obama rather than a Republican RINO pre annointed candidate.
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Many people may vote for Obama, but none of them will be Conservatives.
LOL, Candor.....you watching to much Oprah....turn it off!
Agreed.
I disagree. Many conservatives will vote for Obama, simply because Obama means to break the strangle hold that the Dem Black Caucus has on urban Black communities. Buh-bye Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Thats more reason to vote for him than any conserbative has to vote for the Republican RINO candidates, who mean to do secretly what Obama will do openly.
You’re free to post at other websites if you don’t like your RINO not being worshipped here, hun. ;-)
The RNC put out a statement that said any state that moves its primary before NH will have its number of delegates cut in half.
WY did just that. So the RNC did just that.
Governor Mitt Romney on the Current Environmental Debate Friday, Feb 23, 2007
Boston, MA Today, Governor Mitt Romney issued the following statement on the current environmental debate. Saying that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was right on this issue, he continued:
"Unfortunately, some in the Republican Party are embracing the radical environmental ideas of the liberal left. As governor, I found that thoughtful environmentalism need not be anti-growth and anti-jobs. But Kyoto-style sweeping mandates, imposed unilaterally in the United States, would kill jobs, depress growth and shift manufacturing to the dirtiest developing nations."
"Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore. Instead of sweeping mandates, we must use America's power of innovation to develop alternative sources of energy and new technologies that use energy more efficiently."
Governor Romney opposed mandatory, Kyoto-like global warming regulations in Massachusetts, opting instead for voluntary, pro-growth measures to increase energy efficiency of businesses, reduce carbon emissions and improve the environment with the Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan.
"Unlike the Kyoto Protocol, Romney's plan focuses on voluntary initiatives, restricting any mandatory requirements to only a few large industries and the state itself. The plan includes no enforcement mechanism for requiring attainment of the goals.
Thanks, sweetie.
You’re welcome, sugar.
In 2005, Governor Romney pulled Massachusetts out of a compact of Northeastern states requiring a reduction in power plant emissions of carbon dioxide because it would have caused continued economic decline in the state.
(Robert Novak, “Romney gains by shunning CO2 caps,” Chicago Sun-Times, 1/02/2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0cVS1bsK7Q
This is why people don’t like Romney. He says one thing and does another.
Aww, isn't that sweet?
There are very few rino’s in Wyoming my friend. This was a tremendous victory for Mitt in a very conservative state.
SEC. 1001. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON GLOBAL WARMING.
(a) FINDINGS. The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change.
(2) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that ``there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities'' and that the Earth's average temperature can be expected to rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit in this century.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1924826/posts?page=147
Isn't that your guy saying one thing and doing another or vice versa?
“I have a feeling many conservatives will vote Obama rather than a Republican RINO pre annointed candidate.”
BS.
Fred answered the same question on global warming before:
Q: Is global warming a man-made problem?
A: From what we know now, it seems to be in part, certainly. I think that we don't know how much yet. There are a lot of other things we don't know. There's got to be a global solution to it, there's got to be an international solution before we can do anything. We could take a lot of drastic measures here and it wouldn't even make any difference if China, and India and a lot of other countries don't participate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899146/posts
I think Mitt and Fred have similar positions on this. You are just employing that good old double standard for Mitt we've all come to know and love.
It’s a confusing world you live in.
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