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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

You’re working for him now, Norm.


141 posted on 02/28/2009 7:43:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Norman Bates

And a failed term at that. His goal has remained the same for many years, and it was the same as Al Gore, his fellow Socialist, that being the White House. “Career politician” doesn’t have to mean you’ve held office for years, but to have been INVOLVED in seeking office over years. He has. But let’s not let truth get in the way of telling us how butter won’t melt in Slick Willard’s mouth.


142 posted on 02/28/2009 7:45:20 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Are you going to become head cheerleader now for the Slick Willardbots, Norm ? I’d just like to know.

That one I'll answer: NO.

I took up McCain's cause because no one else was doing it. He was a vet, a war hero, and a moderately conservative with lots of governmental experience. It's over and I'm not doing it again. I like Mitt and see him as a fine presidential candidate for 2012 (especially the way the economy and budgetary affairs are). While I haven't officially settled on him: 1) I will defend what I see as excessive attacks on him, 2) I will celebrate his successes, and 3) all this whining is driving me closer to him. Afterall - I love an underdog.

143 posted on 02/28/2009 7:46:06 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: RED SOUTH

Lots of sick people at that meeting. But then it could just be a very funny joke.


144 posted on 02/28/2009 7:46:46 PM PST by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

So then you think DeMint is either too STUPID or LAZY (or BOTH) to see through a “lie.” What an insult to a great conservative mind.


145 posted on 02/28/2009 7:47:44 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Impy

I’d be surprised if Petraeus gets in it. The downside to picking a military man who has never held political office is what his record would be, and if he was successful at it. That’s why I have a problem sizing up sports figures who try to run, you don’t know how they’re going to do until after they’re in (by which time, it’s too late).


146 posted on 02/28/2009 7:47:55 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: JaneNC

As Rush said, Mac was the media darling for a reason.....


Where did Mac finish in relationship to Romney at CPAC in 2008? Was that a media event?


147 posted on 02/28/2009 7:48:13 PM PST by deport
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To: speedracerx

We aren’t there yet. After the 2010 elections....THEN we can work on getting a candidate to go with the next Congressional Revolution.


148 posted on 02/28/2009 7:48:17 PM PST by Pistolshot (The Soap-box, The Ballot-box, The Jury-box, And The Cartridge-Box ...we are past 2 of them.)
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To: Impy

Time to find out?


149 posted on 02/28/2009 7:48:22 PM PST by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: Texas4ever
Bobby J....Pres of the People!!!

Not natural born, does not qualify to run as president.

150 posted on 02/28/2009 7:48:42 PM PST by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: chesty_puller

Then there is a little trouble with the illegals thing.


151 posted on 02/28/2009 7:49:50 PM PST by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: Norman Bates

You love an underdog ? How about championing a Conservative one, Norm ? If you want a Socialist, scoot on over to the Democrat side. Juan “I can’t get my lips off of Barry’s ass” McCain was quite enough.


152 posted on 02/28/2009 7:49:50 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: org.whodat

Those aren’t mutually exclusive concepts.


153 posted on 02/28/2009 7:50:51 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"You’re working for him now, Norm."

That's ironic because I would likely not still be on this thread "working" if it weren't for... you

(creepy, huh?)

154 posted on 02/28/2009 7:52:05 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Norman Bates

Married at age 20. I guess Mitt didn’t know the values of his wife.

( Nice. You throwing Mitt’s wife under the bus. Real classy. Granted, Mitt, or as least his campaign, gives you an assist.)


155 posted on 02/28/2009 7:52:21 PM PST by Leisler
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Point out one ironclad demonstrable lie I made on this thread. Opinions don’t count.


156 posted on 02/28/2009 7:53:13 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Huck
I like Newt

Talk about stepping in the cesspool, do you go to parties and fart at the dinner table also.

157 posted on 02/28/2009 7:53:28 PM PST by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: Norman Bates

Politicians run for office and campaign, election winners are still politicians but they are also office holders.

Romney has been a politician for about 16 or 17 years and is campaigning for an election in 2012 for an office that he would want to hold until 2020.

Like I said he is a career politician.

He loses but he is always campaigning.


158 posted on 02/28/2009 7:54:31 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: mysterio
I just listened to an EXTREMELY disappointing Paul singing cheese-eating surrender-monkey songs about Afghanistan on CPAC. Says "we can't afford it." Shame.
159 posted on 02/28/2009 7:55:00 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Norman Bates

Well, there’s the OTHER alternative... which is how Slick has “acquired” a lot of his “support.” I think DeMint thought he might end up as his running mate, since it makes sense that Slick would clearly require a Southerner to appease the base. Problem is, DeMint doesn’t know that Slick prefers weak cyphers that don’t challenge his supremacy. He was going to be in for a shock. Slick would’ve chosen someone like his clone out in California, Meg Whitman. Another left-winger.


160 posted on 02/28/2009 7:55:14 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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