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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How many people showed up to hear Romney’s speach at this event? That’s right; he was afraid to show up at an event and try to compete with Sarah Palin.
I don’t know how you got the name Truth and Freedom..because there is no Truth to the fact that Romney gave us Gay Marriage in Massachusetts.. that is LIE..
Romney has also called for the federal Constitution to be amended to limit marriage in the United States to unions of one man and one woman
Sarah Palin... will never be President... she is not even getting that good of ratings on her tv news show
And you call yourself an educator, where was that? What a joke.
LOL. He’s America’s candidate! Just ask him....once he admits he’s running. Gee, he wrote a book... bought enough copies to put his book #1 on the NYT best seller list for ONE WEEK, and now he bought a straw poll. Yet, when last asked by Chris Wallace, he said he hadn’t decided whether he wanted to run for the nomination again......
Name her TV news show and proof of her ratings please.
There is another year and a half before things start getting real serious. She is a very smart woman and she know what she believes in; which right in line with most Americans.
Hey Mitt,
Trust me, this straw poll doesn’t mean crap! We will never vote your sorry, RINO, HeathCare Reformer A$$ into office as our president!
Why don’t you and McCain retire and go fishing, and talk about the glory days of screwing your party over royally!
AMEN !!!!!
For my own part, I think this argument about putting the onus on employers to police immigrants is BS.
It completely skirts the tough issues of:
1) the federal government deliberately not enforcing immigration law,
2) the obligation to return illegals to the border when they are discovered. (People don't like the unpleasant pictures, so it's easier to punish employers and let the immigration continue.)
*grumble* ...more like a nightmare.
What TV news show???????? are you taking about the “special” she did for Fox a week ago? Because if you are here ratings were through the roof........... and you call yourself a former educator? Thank goodness on the former.
Right, he couldn’t even buy Iowa. Huckabee swooped-in and there went a year’s worth of ground work and a whole lot of money.
Wow, Mitt Romney is proven to be a disgusting liar, a scoundrel and an illegal alien employer for 11 years and keeping them on even after being busted by the national media for it once and pretending to have let them go, and your reaction is that?
You should be happy that Rudy brought it up in the debate or no one would have known that Romney was still using them.
From ‘portlandon’ in
the comments
at Hot Air:
Romney- Buys 500 $119 tickets= $59,500
=TIE FOR FIRST
Paul- Buys 800 $119 tickets= $95,200 =TIE FOR FIRST
Palin-
Buys 500 Caribou Jerky= $1,500 = SECOND PLACE
WHICH ONE IS
FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE?
WHICH ONE GOT MORE FOR THEIR MONEY?
lol— yeah, i like that one too— its kinda sums it up huh—
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