First votes in, and the race is on!! [1st qtr 2012 FReepathon thread III]

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[Jim Robinson]

Well done, Rick Santorum!! A great come from behind surge and photo finish!! Had it in the bag until the last minute recount of one precinct (and surprise, surprise) just enough Romney votes were found to knock you out of first place by a whopping 8 votes. But a great victory for the base nonetheless!!

And it looks like there may be a few fewer faces in the race for New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Can't see Huntsman or Bachmann hanging around much longer, and Perry may also bail. Ron Paul has had his best shot. His spam monkeys will have no further impact on the race as he fades to retirement.

That leaves one liberal and two conservatives. Now that some actual votes are in the bag, it'll become more and more obvious every day that the base is not buying Romney's 11th hour conversion to pro-life conservatism and his numbers will begin falling off. Even with all the millions he spent in Iowa and with the media and the establishment GOP carrying his water, he could barely muster up 25% of the vote. The conservative base and the tea party do not want the unreliable flip-flopping Romney and we are not going to allow him to be shoved down our throats!!

No doubt he'll do ok in New Hampshire where he's concentrating his efforts, but he'll have a bit more of a struggle in conservative South Carolina and Florida. And by then I'm pretty sure we will have decided which conservative to coalesce behind for the remainder of the race and then on to defeating Obama!!

NOBAMA, NO ROMNEY, NO WAY!!

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Rebellion is brewing!!

[MEG33]

Wonderful, Onyx..
I was going down the stairs in a large motel in Austin and coming up the stairs was Kris..I was on a little vacation trip to the Hill Country in Texas and he was making a movie IIRC..I was pleased at the brief encounter.

[onyx]

How wonderful! I love the song. Jim does, too. I am so sorry about the double post. I checked my forum page, because the post was hanging! I really enjoyed hearing Kris’s talk about it.

[trisham]

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[trisham]

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[onyx]

OH WOW!!! Such a wonderful surprise! I envision him a truly nice man. I hope I’m right.

Is this posting? Twice?

[onyx]

Thanks, sweetest you. Maybe I should close this very slow window. I think I’ll try a new wondow...lol.

[onyx]

Thanks, sweetest you. Maybe I should close this very slow window. I think I’ll try a new window...lol.

[onyx]

Much Better!

[trisham]

"I will not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension. That is just not an acceptable approach. And if we think it’s going to be hard -- if we think it’s hard now, imagine how these guys are going to be thinking six months from now in the middle of election season where they’re all up. It’s not going to get easier. It’s going to get harder.

So we might as well do it now -- pull off the Band-Aid; eat our peas. Now is the time to do it. If not now, when?

~Barack Obama

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[trisham]

I think you should have as many windows as you like. :)

[Jim Robinson]

Lord help me Jesus!

Amen.

Thank you very much, dearest onyx!!

Woo hoo!!

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$20.00 from Texas

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[onyx]

THE SUN NEVER SETS ON FREE REPUBLIC!
"Rebellion is brewing!"

NEW DONATIONS IN FROM JIM!!!

Lord help me Jesus!

Amen.

Thank you very much, dearest onyx!!

(ME: God bless you, dearest Jim)



Woo hoo!!

And we have incoming:

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$100.00 from Pennsylvania
$20.00 from Texas

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[DJ MacWoW]

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

[MEG33]

I didn’t talk to him (except to say..”Love ya, Kris” softly as we passed..LOL)

I’d always enjoyed his music and he is good looking(This was ..oh my..1983 I believe.

[DJ MacWoW]

Jim Just Posted!!!

Lord help me Jesus!

Amen.

Thank you very much, dearest onyx!!

Woo hoo!!

And we have incoming:

$50.00 from Tennessee
$100.00 from Pennsylvania
$20.00 from Texas

Thank you all very much!!

[onyx]

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   2012 Q1 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
		Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	California	$572.18	14	$40.87	$1,176.00	76	$15.47
2	Colorado	565.00	6	94.17	240.00	16	15.00
3	Ohio	525.00	4	131.25	285.00	22	12.95
4	Texas	440.00	16	27.50	1,016.50	61	16.66
5	North Carolina	396.00	2	198.00	370.00	23	16.09
6	Alabama	315.00	6	52.50	305.00	17	17.94
7	Pennsylvania	305.00	7	43.57	295.00	17	17.35
8	Florida	285.00	12	23.75	650.00	39	16.67
9	Louisiana	210.00	2	105.00	113.00	7	16.14
10	Georgia	200.00	3	66.67	270.00	17	15.88
11	Virginia	186.00	6	31.00	527.00	29	18.17
12	Kansas	170.00	4	42.50	125.00	12	10.42
13	United Kingdom	170.00	3	56.67	10.00	1	10.00
14	Arkansas	160.00	4	40.00	105.00	6	17.50
15	Michigan	160.00	4	40.00	326.67	18	18.15
16	Arizona	155.00	6	25.83	340.00	19	17.89
17	Mississippi	131.00	2	65.50	129.00	8	16.12
18	Kentucky	130.00	2	65.00	145.00	5	29.00
19	Maine	120.00	2	60.00	57.00	4	14.25
20	Tennessee	120.00	6	20.00	190.00	14	13.57
21	Washington	120.00	2	60.00	365.00	18	20.28
22	Wisconsin	110.00	3	36.67	172.00	11	15.64
23	Missouri	95.00	4	23.75	145.00	11	13.18
24	Indiana	70.00	3	23.33	150.00	12	12.50
25	Oklahoma	65.00	4	16.25	250.00	14	17.86
26	New York	60.00	3	20.00	340.00	24	14.17
27	Idaho	60.00	3	20.00	120.00	5	24.00
28	Massachusetts	50.00	4	12.50	235.00	15	15.67
29	Maryland	50.00	2	25.00	287.50	20	14.38
30	Illinois	45.00	4	11.25	236.00	14	16.86
31	Oregon	40.00	2	20.00	180.00	10	18.00
32	Montana	40.00	2	20.00	50.00	2	25.00
33	Vermont	40.00	2	20.00	50.00	1	50.00
34	Minnesota	30.00	1	30.00	175.00	13	13.46
35	El Salvador	30.00	1	30.00
36	Delaware	26.00	2	13.00	16.00	2	8.00
37	Nevada	24.00	2	12.00	75.00	6	12.50
38	South Dakota	20.00	1	20.00	80.00	6	13.33
39	Wyoming	20.00	1	20.00	10.00	1	10.00
40	Germany	20.00	1	20.00
41	Utah	20.00	1	20.00	110.00	4	27.50
42	Australia	10.00	1	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
43	Hawaii	5.00	1	5.00	75.00	4	18.75
	New Jersey				178.33	8	22.29
	South Carolina				80.00	6	13.33
	New Hampshire				78.50	5	15.70
	New Mexico				75.00	4	18.75
	Connecticut				65.00	4	16.25
	Nebraska				65.00	5	13.00
	Alaska				60.00	3	20.00
	Rhode Island				50.00	2	25.00
	Iowa				40.00	2	20.00
	Norway				20.00	1	20.00
	Canada				15.00	2	7.50
	District of Columbia				10.00	1	10.00
	North Dakota				10.00	1	10.00
	Armed Forces - Pacific				5.00	1	5.00
Never Never Land		431.00	8	53.88	1,008.00	81	12.44
58 locations total		$6,796.18	169	$40.21	$11,566.50	731	$15.82