Posted on 12/01/2011 8:18:00 AM PST by TBBT
As Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are emerging and distancing themselves from the pack of Republican presidential candidates, according to more than ten national and state polls conducted over the past week. However, social conservative voters in Iowa, which holds its caucus on Jan. 3, and kicks off the election season, seem agnostic about which candidate can best represent them.
This week, two important social conservative groups in Iowa, The Faith and Freedom Coalition and Iowa Right to Life, opted not to endorse any candidate.
And a focus group of Evangelical voters conducted by influential Iowa radio host Steve Deace revealed the general sense of angst among primary voters regarding the crop of Republican candidates.
Focus group participants described Mitt Romney as “slick willy,” “fake,” “phony” and a politician who is a “weather vane”, who is a “used car salesman”, who says “what the audience wants to hear.”
Though Romney is within striking distance of pulling out a win in Iowa, much in the way Bob Dole did in the 1996 primaries with about 25 percent of the vote, these answers show how perilous and tenuous his position in Iowa and among conservatives, particularly social conservatives, is.
Newt Gingrich, whose considerable personal and political baggage initially turned off conservatives who are giving him a second chance based on his oratory, ideas, and embrace of American exceptionalism, was described as someone who got the “fundamental” aspects of America right, who understood “history” and was “intelligent” but “undisciplined.” One participant described him as being the “wrong man at the right time.”
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Steve Deace voted for Obama in 2008, he is no anything...embarrassment maybe.
No just you re-posting of the same story about a 10th rate Tel Evangelist con man shameless self promoting.
If only there were some conservatives running.
It’s interesting that Ron Paul is “less crazy than a couple months ago” since Ron Paul’s stances certainly haven’t changed; that means conservative voters’ views are shifting in Paul’s direction. Good news!
Paul/Bachmann would be my ideal ticket.
I would hardly call Deace “influential”. He is a kook who voted for Obama and is Democrats’ best friend as he thinks you should never vote for a Republican until the perfect one comes along.
The RINO/Democrat/State-controlled media complex have lost control of the situation.
Pretty good summation of the Deacebag.
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