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Conservative Activists Still Favor Romney
cqpolitics ^ | Feb. 28, 2009 | Staff

Posted on 02/28/2009 2:26:06 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion

If the Republican Party’s conservative wing had the power to choose presidential nominees, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would be the hands-down choice.

For the third straight year, activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference chose Romney, a candidate in the 2008 primaries, as their future presidential favorite in a straw poll.

He won 20 percent of the straw poll vote.

A relative newcomer who has been much in the news came in second: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was favored by 14 percent of the conservatives at the annual Washington gathering.

Third place was a tie between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin , who was the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2008 and former presidential candidate Ron Paul . Each was preferred by 13 percent of conference goers.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich placed fifth, with 10 percent of the straw poll vote.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2012gopprimary; cpac; cpacpoll; jindal; palin; rino; romney; romneyantijindal; romneyantipalin; romneyantithompson; romneyattacksquad; romneycare; ronpaul; strawpolls
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To: svcw

I wonder what the % would be if it was just...

1. Romney V Governor Sarah Palin

2. Romney V Governor Bobby Jindal

and it was a Poll of just Conservatives and not liberals and Democrats paticipating also...


161 posted on 03/01/2009 1:57:35 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw

He said afterwards when McCain was already chosen.


162 posted on 03/01/2009 1:58:55 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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To: svcw

TGhat’s like 1992...

Rush said one day that he “was thinking of voting for Bill Clinton”

I heard him say that LIVE...

It was so funny...

Suddenly many on hold hung up...

LOL


163 posted on 03/01/2009 2:01:03 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Now that is something I would remember. Show me the quote - please.
I always thought he was a Fred guy.


164 posted on 03/01/2009 2:09:16 PM PST by svcw
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To: Tennessee Nana
I remember that. Clinton was giving a speech in Los Angeles and Clinton even mentioned it. He was laughing of course.
But the phone calls to Limbaugh's show were hysterical and funny.
165 posted on 03/01/2009 2:12:10 PM PST by svcw
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Is this what you were thinking?
Not an endorsement. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1953578/posts
166 posted on 03/01/2009 2:16:29 PM PST by svcw
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To: svcw

When Rush said it the first time, even I, who had listened to him since 1990, went cold and stunned...

I remember thinking “Oh, no Not you, Rush”

Good thing he kept repeating it...

ROFLMBO


167 posted on 03/01/2009 2:18:23 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: svcw; Finny; SolidWood
"Is this what you were thinking?"
 
No, that was not it. The endorsement only came later:
 

RUSH: I think now, based on the way the campaign has shaken out, that there probably is a candidate on our side who does embody all three legs of the conservative stool, and that’s Romney. The three stools or the three legs of the stool are national security/foreign policy, the social conservatives, and the fiscal conservatives. The social conservatives are the cultural people. The fiscal conservatives are the economic crowd: low taxes, smaller government, get out of the way.

Of course, the foreign policy crowd is obviously what it is. I don’t think there’s anybody on our side who doesn’t care about national security, which is why I found it amazing that McCain gets the bulk of those, because the idea that Romney or Huckabee are going to punt national security? In Huckabee’s case, you might just say the things he’s saying about it represent an ignorance born of inexperience in the subject. I don’t think Huckabee has any deleterious intentions about the country. When it comes to the fiscal side, you cannot say — you just cannot say — that John McCain is interested. He’s even admitted he’s not interested in the social side. He’s not interested in the economic side. He said this, and when he has spoken up about it, he sides more often with liberal Democrats on fiscal issues than he does with his own side. That’s problematic. This is why I think — and why I have said — that the Republican Party, not conservatism, but the Republican Party is in big trouble if it is empowered and gets elected by attracting people who also hold liberal Democrat views simply because they like McCain because of his character, his honor, his prisoner of war story, and they don’t like Hillary or Obama.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/05/rush-limbaugh-endorses-mitt-romney/


168 posted on 03/01/2009 2:29:58 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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To: Finny

LIMITED GOVERNMENT produces social and fiscal conservatism — not the other way around. It’s an important disctinction that I’ve only grasped in the past five years or so.


Well stated, can’t argue with that. Repeat LOUD and OFTEN.


169 posted on 03/01/2009 2:30:16 PM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Ok, well really I am stumped. I don't see an endorsement. I am going to watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind and re-read what you posted again but I just don't see.
170 posted on 03/01/2009 2:35:20 PM PST by svcw
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I hope Romney runs. If he spends $30 million of his own $ for a campaign, that’s $3 million less going into the coffers of the LDS church.


171 posted on 03/01/2009 2:42:22 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: BarnacleCenturion
LOL! Yeah, ok...

Looks like the ranks of folks that know Mitt is not a Conservative is growing. I am seeing names I have never seen before. Not to mention the site owner himself is no fan of Romney...

But you just keep hope alive, maybe you'll sleep better...

172 posted on 03/01/2009 2:42:44 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: BarnacleCenturion; All
Yeah, and the date?

FEBUARY 8 2008!

So lets do a little logic here shall we. Thompson is gone, the man Rush said was the “only conservative on the platform”at the debate. Hunter was never in the spot light, and Huck was no conservative.

So my question, and it is, as always, one I put to every Mitt fan, IF Mitt WAS ALL THAT FOR CONSERVTIVES, if he was the embodiment through and through, the perfect conservative, why did we even have ANY debate, why did he not dominate FreeRepublic? Why were all these so called endorsements coming so late.

Rush's so called endorsement was after all had dropped but McCain. Hannity supporter Rudy until he dropped.

WHY WERE THESE and others NOT ON THE MITT BUS DAY ONE?!?

Answer:

Well in your heart, if you are honest and are a Conservative, you know the answer...

173 posted on 03/01/2009 2:50:47 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: greyfoxx39
Actually we are growing a bit, after all I am a new add since the primary. And this harping for Mitt by his sycophants ain't doing anything but helping either...
174 posted on 03/01/2009 2:53:21 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Joe Boucher

Based on his history, I’m not certain you can or should say that with any certainty. We had Obama’s history (such as it was) and people refused to see it and he was elected with help from people who normally would vote Republican...Bottom line is all we really have his history to go by since anyone can say anything in the heat of battle...


175 posted on 03/01/2009 3:40:29 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: truth_seeker

>It took those two, two term GOP Presidents 4 to 8 years of preparation, to win.

Which has nothing at all to do with what I wrote here.

>If your view is formed from reading FR, it will be distorted.

Fortunately, it is not.


176 posted on 03/01/2009 3:54:15 PM PST by bill1952 (McCain and the GOP were worthless)
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To: napscoordinator

You make me sick. Honestly.

I am a mother of an enlisted soldier who is currently in Iraq. He’s in finance, so I suppose you would denigrate what he actually does there. Little do you realize how often he is in harms way.


177 posted on 03/01/2009 4:28:31 PM PST by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: ejonesie22; greyfoxx39
Actually we are growing a bit, after all I am a new add since the primary. And this harping for Mitt by his sycophants ain't doing anything but helping either...

We've added quite a few since you came on board. We welcome you all!

178 posted on 03/01/2009 4:32:02 PM PST by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: Finny

Well said, FRiend.


179 posted on 03/01/2009 4:34:27 PM PST by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: bill1952

“Which has nothing at all to do with what I wrote here.”

Sorry I misunderstood “lurching...”


180 posted on 03/01/2009 4:40:56 PM PST by truth_seeker
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