Posted on 04/09/2010 10:06:17 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
NEW ORLEANS -- I just wrote about "Evangelicals for Mitt," a group of evangelical supporters of Mitt Romney who are pressing people to support Romney at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw poll.
Afterward, I spoke to a young female delegate who said she planned to vote for Romney in the poll. I asked her how she had ended up at the conference.
She said "Evangelicals for Mitt" had contacted her and offered to pay for her to have a limited-access ticket -- so long as she agreed to vote for Romney in the straw poll.
Asked how "Evangelicals for Mitt" got her name, she said she didn't know. But she said that she was on the email list for Romney, and speculated that the Romney team had given out their email list.
"Evangelicals for Mitt" co-founder David French said in an interview yesterday that his group is not coordinating with the Romney team, though he noted that his wife had worked with the Romney campaign in the past.
UPDATE: Politico's Ben Smith reports that a conference organizer told him that "Evangelicals for Mitt" and Ron Paul's "Campaign for Liberty" bought blocks of tickets to the conference, which can then be given to supporters who cast ballots in the straw poll.
That’s how Mitt got a lot of the establishment support here in Michigan. He still couldn’t break 50% in the primary in his birthstate.
These same ol same ol tricks are not gonna work this time. ‘See BS’ may have done us a favor by exposing Mitt. Get him off the ‘contender’ plate early...and let some fresh youngblood emerge.
Hey, Free Republic has a big tent!
A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the continuation of socialist policies under the guise of Republicanism.
Romney is the turd that just won’t flush.
So how's that empire building working out for you these days?
So how's that big government "conservatism" working out for you these days?
It's just easier for neocons to call names and cast aspersions than examine themselves or the failures of their favorite policies.
“White Horse prophecy”
Not too well since Ron Paul was tipped-off to our plans to detonate explosives to bring down the World Trade Center.
“The pot calling the kettle black”
Your folks trash Palin constantly with derision and insults and lies
Pot, meet kettle.
Ron Paul's foreign policy is already being implemented. The good doctor is no longer needed.
Sarah is on right now!!!!
They like Palin now that she’s endorsing Ron’s kid in Kentucky.
Yea, I think that’s it.
Your folks trash Palin constantly with derision and insults and lies
Actually...Palin is supporting John Hussein McCain over a conservative in Arizona....supports keeping Michael Steele as head of RNC....supports Amnesty....put a windfall profits tax on oil companies in Alaska....
Palin supporters cant handle the truth...who needs to lie
1) Generous billionaire Kleig-light Mitt gave Brown only $4500 of the millions he raised.
2) After the pimping was over, McCain had actually given more. ROTFLOL.
And what, Obama is implementing the neocon’s domestic policy?
Ron Paul’s domestic policy is less goverment. I’m much more concerned about domestic policy and too big government than whether we spend kazillions of dollars racing around the middle east until everyone that we think could possibly sometime consider doing anything that could theoretically be seen as support for someone who might harbor a secret desire to do something that might be against what some might consider our best interests.
I’m in favor of less war and less involvement in the middle east, but I really don’t care that much. I want less government and more freedom in my own personal life. Wars are costly, like anything else. And I’d prefer the foreign policy solution that means I’ll pay lower taxes.
I happen to like Paul, and second most Palin. I haven’t been liking a few things that Palin has been doing recently, but it’s really too soon to tell what all of her positions will be. Palin does have tremendous charisma, likeability, hotness, and vote getting ability. Her resume indicates that she could be for smaller government - which is priority 1. But if she continues down the Bush/Cheney II path, she won’t win in November.
I'm not even sure what that means, but you can put away the "neocon" boogeyman. It's dead. You've got an anti-Zionist Jew-hater of the first order in the White House. All's right in the world.
Im much more concerned about domestic policy and too big government than whether we spend kazillions of dollars racing around the middle east until everyone that we think could possibly sometime consider doing anything that could theoretically be seen as support for someone who might harbor a secret desire to do something that might be against what some might consider our best interests.
That's very cute. Not at all based in reality, but cute.
Saddam Hussein waged a terror war on the United States for the better part of eight years, starting with the first WTC attack on the second anniversary of his Gulf War defeat and culminating in the largest attack on American soil in our history on 9/11. That's why he's dead, and that's why we're there. There's nothing theoretical about Hussein's ties to Al Qaeda or our justification for invading Iraq and obliterating his terror-sponsoring regime.
And there's nothing theoretical about what Iran intends to do to Israel. There's nothing secret about it either. Read the papers.
Im in favor of less war and less involvement in the middle east, but I really dont care that much.
The Islamists don't care how much you don't care. They want to kill you anyway. But since one of them is now occupying the White House (largely because of the myriad Iraq War lies promoted by the media, the left and their follower travelers in the Ron Paul cult), fighting them in the middle east is a lost cause. And now you get the worst of all worlds. Enjoy.
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