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.
CHEERS!
Some of us in NH did not support or vote for McCain, except in the general election. Despite the hatred for Mitt expressed by many at FR, I still don't see anyone who has a better shot from the GOP. I'd take Mitt over the Obama experiment, any day.
I AM watching to Rush on FoxNews!
“Seriously, the GOP is lurching from iceberg to iceberg looking for all the world like a stiff searching for a hole to fall in.
Frankly, I’m appalled.”
Best comment I’ve read on FR in weeks; actually, months!
Twenty percent is not “hands down”. Eighty percent DON’T want him.
I don’t get the support for Romney unless it’s because people want an attractive-looking candidate. His term as governor of Massachusetts showed him to be a run-of-the-mill big government Republican.
Well, some people might value private sector experience more than experience as a government bureaucrat.
They want a guy that can “sell” but talks conservative. We haven’t had a candidate that was “marketable” since Reagan. Newt came close in 94. I had hopes for Thompson that were miserably disappointed.
Clinton ran circles around that boob Gingrich.
We will survive, in much the same way that the Great Empire the UK has survived. We will make a great ally to a free superpower.
Conservative activists? LOL!
FGrankly, if the next “standard-bearer” for the Republicans is Willard, I’m out of the party.
If the party is truly that stupid, I want no part of it.
He won 20 percent of the straw poll vote.
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This article is meaningless filler. Any candidate getting only 20% of the vote in a multi-candidate list with no runoff to determine allocation of people's second and third choices is mathematically meaningless. I voted for Romney in the 2008 WV convention, so this is not directed against him, but this is precisely why we had McCain as our weak and unpredictable nominee. McC won the Florida primary with only 30% of the vote, when he should have gotten 30% of the FL delegates instead of 100%, and everyone else should have gotten 70% and gotten a boost in the race.
“I’d take Mitt over the Obama experiment, any day. “
THIS is how we keep LOSING elections.
We ALSO would have taken McCain over the obama experiment too... How well did THAT work?
No. We do NOT need a “_______” is better than obama. We need someone we can STAND behind and who will STAND for us. Not simply the better of two lame-o’s.
I was for Fred originally, but he was off the ballot by the time California voted.
He was the only candidate who I agreed with on every issue.
A liberal friend of mine made a comment about Palin- “she can’t even run her own household, her daughter should have never been interviewed”. She has some good points.
“Well, some people might value private sector experience more than experience as a government bureaucrat.”
I wouldn’t call Governors, Mayors, congressman bureaucrats.
Some people value someone that can win elections make a name for them self while in office and then win reelections.
Squeezing out one win, revealing nothing of note in office,leaving that office with low approval ratings, and no reelection, is not very inspiring.
I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. Ask Hucksters if they would rather have Romney right now, or Obama, and you will get a pregnant pause.
“A liberal friend of mine made a comment about Palin- “she can’t even run her own household, her daughter should have never been interviewed”. She has some good points.”
Remember when Mitt Romney was having all of those recent epiphanies and came out of them a conservative”?
One of those epiphanies was that he was actually pro-life now, unfortuantly his wife hasn’t had an epiphany, she is still pro abortion, I don’t know about his five military age sons, but he couldn’t handle any of those well enough to get one to enlist, 9/11 didn’t touch even one of them.
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