Posted on 09/19/2009 5:23:45 PM PDT by GoldStandard
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Saturday won a 2012 presidential preference straw poll of social and religious conservative activists from 49 states gathered in Washington, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said at an afternoon press briefing at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
It was sweet revenge for Mr. Huckabee, who narrowly lost a similar poll in 2007 to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Only in-person voting was permitted in this vote -- Mr. Romney had won with combined Internet and in-person voting.
On Saturday Mr. Huckabee took 28.48 percent of the vote, while Mr. Romney was in a four-way tie for second place with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence. All four won 12 percent of the vote in rounded numbers.
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Hunter/DeMint 2012
Good luck with that.
Yawn.
Eschew JUANnabies.
Huckabee ain’t it. I hope he’ll know when to bow out gracefully this time.
Huck = McLame = MSM is picking him for us again. He is on TV all the time, free face time, sorry huckbee take a hike.
I don’t think Hunter would have a very broad appeal. De Mint, on the other hand, might have that appeal; he’s certainly emerging.
I see Hunter the way I see Huckabee, both of them good in their own ways, and possibly excellent Cabinet material. Of course, it’s early times yet, and there will probably be a lot of growth and development among all our possible candidates.
Sigh. This is gonna be a long election season.
Hunter is not only excellent on every issue, he - unlike Huck, Mitt, etc - has never deviated from his reagan conservatism.
He knows more about geopolitics than then entire field combined. And he is the ONLY one who has been sounding the alarm over China - both militarily and economically - for years.
I trust staunch ant-communists like Hunter. I don’t trust Mao fellaters like Huck and Mitt.
DeMint has much to learn from Hunter on foreign policy.
The so-called “Values voters” must love saying “President obama.” The Huckster is even less appealing than McCain.
Welcome to FR. Round here we support conservatives. Maybe this time, the limp d*cks in the gop will too.
Agreed. I look back at 2008 and see 3 possible felons on the Dem side and on the GOP side there were some good guys (also gals with Sarah later).
McCain was probably the worst RINO of the bunch. Hunter was probably the best conservative along with Keyes and maybe Tancredo. Fred would have been good too.
Hunter-Bachmann 2012
Maybe the values voters would be better off concentrating on the 2010 elections and stop these idiotic straw polls for President. Once again, I say NO to anyone who ran in 2008 in the primary. I don’t want to see any of them back on the ballot in 2012.
Huckabee helped McCain lock it down over Romney. If Huck had bowed out - I think Romney would have beaten McCain.
Romney might not have beaten Hussein but he would have at least tried to win.
While Hunter might be great on certain issues, he doesn’t have much of a national profile and is, from what I have seen of him, not a very effective speaker. Like it or not, this is important.
Not gonna happen, Cap’n.
Seriously.
America had their say on Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, etc.
Please someone fresh in 2012. Maybe Jon Huntsman or Gary Johnson.
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