And the GOP front-runner is ... only two spots on the GOP ballot. One is reserved for Romney..

The Los Angeles Times ^ | February 10, 2011 | Doyle McManus

[2ndDivisionVet]

The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination starts in earnest this week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

Too early, you say? On the contrary. With the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary only 12 months away, it may soon be too late for anyone who wants to run for president to begin the hard work of raising money, recruiting a staff and wooing Republican activists.

So let's get started. Here's the conventional wisdom, fresh from the corridors of power, on the state of the Republican race:

There are really only two spots on the GOP ballot. One is reserved for Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who won nine primaries in 2008. The other is for someone who isn't Mitt Romney — someone like Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee or Tim Pawlenty.

Romney has been running for the nomination the old-fashioned way. He has raised more money than any other hopeful ($6.3 million for his political action committee during the last two years). He spent most of last year collecting IOUs as he helped Republican candidates across the country win House and Senate seats. He's the solid front-runner in polls in New Hampshire, the first primary election state.

If the Republican Party worked the way it used to, Romney already would be the presumptive nominee....

[Mariner]

HEAR THIS GOP:

If you line up behind Romney not only will we rot in the gutters of hell before we vote for him...we will DESTROY THE PARTY in the process.

FOREVER.

Signed: Every conservative in America.

[big'ol_freeper]

Piss on Romney

[Aglooka]

Please get the first in the nation primary out of NH. Most of us are tired of it.

Also, I will not vote for Romney (or Jeb, or Newt).

[Diogenesis]

CPAC [ = Obama Republicans] supports the Islamic invasion, CAIR, Mitt Romney and antiSemitism.

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CPAC/ACU/CAIR is run by David Keene
involved in Palin-bashing and Romney-care polishing.

""Palin-bashing CPAC/ACU Chair donated $2,000 to Arlen Specter, endorsed Romney""

""Exclusive: Conservative group offers support for $2M"

""Palin rebuffs CPAC, Keene""

"Washington Insider David Keene Disses Governor Palin, Claims to Speak for Grassroots
"Keene's ACU also puts on the annual CPAC conference in Washington.

.In the last three years CPAC has devolved into nothing more than
an annual love fest for the most established of establishment
Republicans, Mitt Romney. It should come as no surprise that David
Keene supported Mitt Romney in 2008. "

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"David Keene Endorses Romney"

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"ACU President David Keene Endorses Romney
Long courted by Romney, Keene agreed to formalize his endorsement of
the former governor during a face to face meeting in Florida on
Tuesday, according to knowledgeable sources."

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"David A. Keene (born May 20, 1945) is the current chairman of the American
Conservative Union, a position which he has held since 1984. Additionally, he is the
managing associate at the Carmen Group Lobbying, a lobbying firm based in
Washington, D.C. In December 2007, Keene endorsed Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. "

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"(at CPAC 2010, the) message there was that "real conservatives" don't support the war
on terror because it is a creation of the "Israeli lobby" - which coalesces with the left-
wing's new anti-Semitism against neoconservatives. Karen Kwiatkowski is a darling of
both the leftist Huffington Post and the anti-Semitic paleocon site Antiwar.com.


…is a board member of the ACU, and from the looks of CPAC's
covered topics and omission of discussion of jihad, it looks as if he exerts enormous
influence over David Keene, the ACU's nominal leader. Norquist and his ally Suhail
Khan seem to be in charge at CPAC - no CPAC event goes on that doesn't reflect their perspective. ….
Grover Norquist's troubling ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been known
for years. He and his Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes, who was director of
communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married in 2005, are very
active in "Muslim outreach." …..
It was Norquist who ushered these silver-tongued jihadists into the Oval Office after the
worst attack ever on American soil. ….
Grover Norquist was on the jihad payroll before and after the carnage and death of
September 11….
Norquist also introduced Nihad Awad, cofounder and executive director of the Council
on American-Islamic Relations, to President Bush. ….
It is no surprise that CPAC 2010, like CPAC 2009, had nothing addressing the war we
are actually engaged in. This is due to the influence of Norquist, Keene, and Suhail Khan,
a CPAC board member. According to Gaffney, Khan "has repeatedly been a featured
speaker at MSA, ISNA and CAIR events" - that is, Muslim Students Association, Islamic
Society of North America, and Council on American-Islamic Relations, three groups
linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamic organization dedicated to
establishing the rule of Islamic law and the subjugation of infidels worldwide."

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CPAC's Grover Norquist Joins Obama Push For Illegal Alien Amnesty - FR

CPAC's Grover Norquist Joins Obama Push For Illegal Alien Amnesty

[TheTeaPartyChannel]

The best thing about the 2012 Iowa Caucus is that Obama wont be bussing in a few hundred of his supporters from across the borders like he did in 2008. I heard he pulled this stunt from a reliable source!

[TheWriterTX]

I hear you, Annie! No more RINOs, EVER!

[CMailBag]

[Calusa]

I’m happy to be educated that the LAT speaks fo the GOP and conservatives. I always thought Rush did so.

[musicman]

[SueRae]

Indeed.Just watched Sarah on Sean Hannity. Naturally, he tried to get her to say when an ‘announcement’ from her would be forthcoming. Big swirl around CPAC,etc.andwhy she won’t be there. She has plans already and will announce or not,based on her owntiming and the needs of her family.

As far as I’m concerned, she could wait until July or August of next year before she makes a decision. But if she decides to go for it, I’m in. She’s standing the Republican establishment on its head...not a bad thing. Not a bad thing at all.

[therightliveswithus]

...the next in line syndrome...

[festusbanjo]

I hope that the second name on the ballot is NONE OF THE ABOVE.

[Diogenesis]

Mitt Romney: "I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[CedarDave]

Mitt will make a spiffy-looking Vice President.

He must have as many suits as Imelda Marcos had shoes.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Well the Republican party doesn't work the way it used to, thank God! So maybe we will pick a winner this time and there is only one winner among our possible candidates. Sarah Palin.

Might as well elect a democrat as to elect one of those others.

[hinckley buzzard]

Agreed. If a has-been never-was like John McCain can leave Romney sucking wind in the dust, imagine what Sarah Palin will do to him. He'll be sitting by the side of the road checking his watch pocket to try to find where his nuts went to.

[Paladin2]

Romney should’a been the nominee in ‘08. Too late for him now.

[STD]

And his (MORMON cult) supporters here can all go pound salt.

After electing Willard, every MORMON cult member gets his own planet and 3 wives.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

God save from some soulless ghoul who has spent his entire life running for President.

I'm looking at you, Mitt.