Posted on 04/10/2010 8:46:17 PM PDT by GVnana
NEW ORLEANS -- Mitt Romney won the straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership conference here Saturday in a victory that will be taken as a sign of the former Massachusetts governor's strength as a 2012 presidential candidate.
That's because the 2008 GOP presidential hopeful elected to skip the conference to continue his book tour.
Romney triumphed by a single vote over Ron Paul, who took second place 439 votes to 438. Both men won 24 percent of the vote. Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich essentially tied for third with 18 percent of the vote each.
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If this is actually an echo of what the republican party really wants then it also wants to become the modern version of the Whig party.
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/srlc/
John McCain, who came in only 5th (behind even Bush who couldn't run in 2008), with just 4.6% of the SRLC vote, ended up winning the GOP primaries, and his strongest opposition in the primaries came from Mike Huckabee who came in 6th with only 3.8% of the SRLC vote. George Allen, who came in third at SRLC, couldn't even win re-election for his US Senate seat.
What, Huckabee wasn’t running?
Recount!
Where did they take that vote? Was it the Rino enclosure at the wild animal park?
Paul is a gadfly, albeit an interesting one.
I would vote for Mitt Romney, this country is longing for someone to make sense of the chaotic financial mess we are in,and Romney could do that.
Neither of them have a snowball's chance in hades of winning. So if the republicans were to really run them as their representative I'd never vote republican again, because I'd never forgive them for tacitly selecting Obama as their defacto nominee.
I'm sure I wouldn't be alone...the republicans would be hard pressed to ever win more than a few seats and will be replaced by a new Tea Party. That's at least as I see it...and I'd be voting for the Tea Party candidate. But again, that's only if the republicans prove what everyone knows...and that is, they're not very bright.
By one stupid straw. Basically was even with Paul. Hope these aren’t the only people who are going to throw their hats into the ring, but this little shindig was b***s***.
I am not as rough on him either. Also, in the general election will the democrats attack him over health care or his religion? BO is a little exposed in those areas.
People forget that we already saw Mitt Romney in that role when he was Governor of Massachusetts, he did a terrible job and left with 34% approval and the voters not wanting him for a second term.
I can make sense of the financial mess we are in. It’s simple. Our government is flat broke. Difference between me and Romney is I don’t have a shitty health care “reform” plan to apologize for. Romney is the next McCain, but only if we’re stupid enough to nominate him in 2012.
If this is actually an echo of what the republican party really wants then it also wants to become the modern version of the Whig party.
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I agree. Before the century is out I expect a withered GOP will merge with the democrats into a single party which represents government employees, unions and the welfare class.
People who will insist upon their liberty will go to a second party.
It’s only make believe.. ;-)
No one is entitled to their “turn”. If that’s how the GOP operates, then may it rest in peace.
The democrats will work both, and they will also hammer Romney on the race issue, especially since he would be trying to defeat a black man.
With Mitt Romney's racial history, that could be a real problem.
What racial history for Mitt Romney? The fact that Mitt Romney is White? When did it become a crime to be White?
What'd that cost him?
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