Posted on 09/19/2009 2:11:17 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is the preferred 2012 GOP presidential nominee among Christian conservatives, according to the results of a straw poll announced Saturday at an annual gathering of the religion (sic) right in Washington.
Prominent Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader John Boehner, took to the stage at the Value Voters Summit to blast President Obama's spending policies and announce the top 2012 presidential pick among conservative voters.
The summit's poll, which featured 9 presidential prospects, found that 28 percent of Christian conservatives said Huckabee would revive the Republican party and traditional conservative principles while 12.4 percent preferred former Massachustts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Other strong contenders included Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who won over 12.23 percent of conservative voters. Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence came out in in a virtual tie at 12.06 percent and 11.89 percent, respectively.
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Yes, but GWB also got us Obama.
It’s not that they are socialists; they are so uninformed that all they know to do is go with the familiar name ID.
I like Jindal a great deal. He's still young and the future will be very good to him. I'd like to see him on the ticket with Sarah.
Disagree. McCain, the media and assorted RINOs got us Obama.
he better start losing weight again if he’s gonna run in 2012.....It looks like he’s packing on the pounds again.. but who cares? right?
Wow.............big surprise.....
This Christian conservative hopes Huckabee recognizes the importance of the 2012 election and stays out of it. If all the clowns line up for round two, Obama will win, and it will be the end of Democracy in America. For that matter, it will be the end of America, completely.
I should add that I hope Mitt stays out of it too. He might make a good VP choice, given his expertise in finance and economics, but we don’t need a wannabe liberal pushing MA’s version of healthcare reform.
Huckster = 4 more years of obama. If that is what Republicans want , so be it.
If everybody refuses to ever vote for anybody they don’t agree with, nobody will win (except the other side, who at this point will vote for anybody who will support their leadership).
Eventually, they will get tired of not getting their way, and will start voting for the “right kind” of people, while the republicans will realise they need to win elections to do anything, and the tide will turn back.
But anybody who thinks that conservatives of the type that we support here are in the majority already is ignoring facts. We aren’t even a huge majority in the Republican party, which itself isn’t a majority of the voting public.
Ronald Reagan won because, while he was a conservative, he also appealed to people who were not conservative.
Anyway, you make the typical mistake of confusing candidates with voters. You want conservative candidates. In order for conservative candidates to win, you need the VOTES of the social conservative voters.
Which means at least that you can’t call them idiots, and tell them to go away. It really means that, if you can’t get your candidate through the primary, you have to be willing to vote for THEIR candidate; otherwise you have no reason to expect them to vote for YOUR candidate.
I apologize. Yes, you said Christian socialists, and I simply went dyslexic on you.
No problemo. :o)
Is this some kind of sick joke....Huckabee? We could lose just as well with Romney or Pawlenty. Oh, never mind. Go ahead and give O a second term. I see no one in the GOP right now that could get 270 electoral votes.
Huckabee might be a social conservative, but he was fiscally irresponsible as Governor of Arkansas.
LOLOL!!
Double ugh. I wish “they” would stop trying to shove the Huckster down our throats.
Yeah, the straw poll results. On the whole, Huckabee is a populist goof ball, tax and spend liberal. He has no high moral authority to lecture Congress every week to tone back on all the out-of-control spending, when he himself was spending and raising taxes as a Governor of a very small state.
4 more years of the Messiah. Unfortunately the drones and Obamabots and moderates want a human Messiah and not a human/God Messiah that Huckabee believes in.
168 people was not the evidence I was looking for.
I agree with the issues you point out but I believe there would be lots of issues with a 1 day national primary.
For one, what happens if the count is 22%, 21.9%, 21.9%, 10%, 10%, 10%, 4%. And by state there is no real clear winner across the nation?
At least with the current system they eventually drop and we have a single winner. However, it does allow for too many games like rats voting in our primary in a state they know their guy is going to win (and vice-versa).
Maybe break it up into thirds. With 1st week having 33% of the states going. Then the next week another 33%, and the final week the rest. Each election they round robin on which states are in each week so no one state gets too much influence (I’m looking at you Iowa and NH).
This will allow the weaker candidates to fallout and back a like minded candidate. Heck we could even have it where if the candidate doesn’t get at least X% of the vote he has to drop out—this would help prevent a buddy playing spoiler. For example, too many conservatives running against the single liberal for the Republican nomination. So the liberal gets all the liberal votes and the conservatives split the votes amongst 3 candidates. Make the weaker ones drop out (regardless of political viewpoint). With 1/3 of the states voting at once I know a solid conservative would survive especially since we would have the states dived up equally across the US so that it’s not the NE voting all at once nor the south. Rather a couple states from each area at one time.
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