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Romney picked as 2012 GOP front-runner
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/28/cpac/index.html

Posted on 02/28/2009 6:07:30 PM PST by RED SOUTH

Conservative activists on Saturday named former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of a poll for best 2012 GOP presidential candidate.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won 20 percent of the vote in straw poll for presidential favorites.

The poll marked the third consecutive year Romney came out on top


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; 2012gopprimary; cpac; romney; romneyantijindal; romneyantipalin; romneyattacksquad; romneypayoff
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To: Norman Bates

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/romney-cpac/?hp


101 posted on 02/28/2009 7:14:09 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: Norman Bates

102 posted on 02/28/2009 7:14:39 PM PST by SMCC1
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To: Norman Bates

“Mitt is a businessman not a career politician.”


By 2012 he will have his twenty in and can retire.

Sounds career to me, he never wins but he is becoming the permanent candidate.


103 posted on 02/28/2009 7:15:02 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: Norman Bates

It’s a legitimate question, Norm, and you know it. Why don’t you answer it ? What about the Maucks, Norm ? Or are victims of Slick Willard’s standard operating procedure something you wish to cover up ? No Slick Willardbot gives a DAMN about them. An “inconvenient truth” telling us exactly what took precedence in Slick Willard’s world. His expensive lunch at Ruth’s Chris was more important than keeping pro-criminal liberals off the bench and releasing animals to murder innocent people. And that’s what you want as President, Norm.

Over my dead body.


104 posted on 02/28/2009 7:15:11 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: TomasUSMC

It’s sad McCain lost. I doubt another Vietnam vet will get the chance to be POTUS.


105 posted on 02/28/2009 7:15:25 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: RED SOUTH

Puke.


106 posted on 02/28/2009 7:15:32 PM PST by little jeremiah (Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
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To: brivette

Anyone that knowa anything about him won’t vote for him!


107 posted on 02/28/2009 7:15:48 PM PST by dalereed
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To: Ingtar

Rush endorses no one however he has said good things about Romney as well. DeMint and Bork are heavy hitters.


108 posted on 02/28/2009 7:16:41 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: GOP_Lady

And you don’t give a damn about Brian and Beverly Mauck, either. If they were your relatives, would you care then ? I doubt it, your devotion to your idol overwhelms all sense of right and wrong. Just sweep it under the rug just like you sweep every other despicable thing he does under it.


109 posted on 02/28/2009 7:17:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: gondramB

Then it must be asked: what about those who got less than 20%? That does not an argument make.


110 posted on 02/28/2009 7:17:50 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: mysterio

I believe you’re right. I just wish there were people out there w/ a lil name recognition that could take his place. Judge Andrew Napolitano, possibly?


111 posted on 02/28/2009 7:18:48 PM PST by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: Norman Bates

There will be many fewer who drink the Romney Kool-Aide than did the McCain Kool-Aide. If it comes to him as the nominee in 2012, it assures Dim control.


112 posted on 02/28/2009 7:20:33 PM PST by Ingtar (Americans have truly let America down. A sad day.)
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To: RED SOUTH

20% of the vote? And this makes him the candidate?

Please. This is the Old GOP redux. Romney is a RINO, and all this means is that all the RINOs voted for him, while the real conservative vote was diluted by having several good candidates.

Can Romney. Let’s not make the McCain mistake again by running the Old GOP.


113 posted on 02/28/2009 7:21:34 PM PST by livius
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To: Norman Bates

Pathetic and weak, and you know it, Norm. You deny HIS appointee, a KNOWN pro-criminal liberal, could’ve been kept off the bench had he actually spent more than a couple minutes reviewing the record. Fact is, he didn’t care, just like you don’t care. He only cared when their brutal murders happened to come in the midst of his Presidential campaign and the EMBARRASSMENT it caused HIM. Slick Willard put people’s lives in danger, and his lunch at Ruth’s Chris was more important than the Maucks. That’s what Slick Willard stands for. A sad, pathetic liberal phony who destroys everything he touches.


114 posted on 02/28/2009 7:22:07 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: ChrisInAR

Is Napolitano as rabidly pro-freedom as Paul? Because that’s important.


115 posted on 02/28/2009 7:22:21 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Pistolshot

Agreed, it doesn’t mean $hit.

But I’m afraid that it does raise questions... Why can’t the GOP get a “star” or at least someone with “star power”.

Isn’t there someone (new) who is willing to step up?


116 posted on 02/28/2009 7:23:35 PM PST by speedracerx (The fate of our great nation lies in the hands of conservatives!)
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To: Norman Bates

Bork’s an old man who was lied to. Just like Slick Willard has lied to every well-meaning Conservative to get their support for his abortion of a candidacy.


117 posted on 02/28/2009 7:23:42 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: GOP_Lady

Thanks, what’s that?


118 posted on 02/28/2009 7:25:37 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Pistolshot
re: IT’S A STRAW POLL! IT DOESN’T MEAN S4!T

Sure it does! It shows very clearly that getting Obama elected hasn't taught a lot of voters anything. It shows that there are still lots and lots of voters with the attitude if they don't play my way then I'm taking my ball and going home. It shows clearly how an absolute zero like Obama can get elected to the most powerful office in the world. It shows that there aren't enough of us willing to play the game in such a way that we live to play again.

Here we are nearly four years from the next election and a simple straw poll brings out all the people who insist on a perfect candidate. Perfection is all they will settle for. Not good or better, but perfection. And when someone who is less qualified than the poorest candidate their Party could have fielded is elected by the other side they bitch and moan about where the country is going.

It shows that we'll probably suffer the same damn thing next election cycle. It's the party of the My Way or No Way voters. They want a five dollars, someone offers them three dollars and they settle for less than one dollar.

It's certainly there right and I have no qualms with those who consider it a badge of courage to take the dollar rather than settle for three with the hopes of getting more in the future.

119 posted on 02/28/2009 7:26:29 PM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: SMCC1

That picture is ancient. Mitt never donated to them, his wife did.


120 posted on 02/28/2009 7:26:42 PM PST by Norman Bates
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