Poll: Romney the frontrunner in 2016?

CNN's Political Ticker ^ | June 19, 2014 | Paul Steinhauser, political editor

[2ndDivisionVet]

He's said over and over that he won't run for the White House a third time, but a new poll indicates that if Mitt Romney changed his mind and made another bid for president, he'd be the frontrunner among Republicans in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.

According to the Suffolk University/Boston Herald survey, which was released Thursday, 24% of Granite State Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say that Romney would be their first choice for their party's presidential nomination.

Among the potential 2016 GOP contenders, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was a distant second, at 9%, with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 8%, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 7%.

While the survey may make headlines, it's important to remember that Romney's very well known in New Hampshire. He owns a vacation home in the state, has often appeared at GOP events in New Hampshire, and was governor of neighboring Massachusetts. Romney easily won the 2012 Republican primary, but lost the state by six percentage points to President Barack Obama in the general election....

[Cyclops08]

This far out...polls mean NOTHING.

[Elsie]

FR isn’t going to do Romney again, are they?

I doubt it.

Lessons have been learned!

[Elsie]

Fine selective reporting!

[verga]

Thanks for the ping. I hate to say it, but if another RINO is the nominee I will be sitting this one out. I have not missed an election since 1978, but screw the RINO's the GOP can go _ _ _ _ themselves.

Sorry for the rant, but I am just sick of this disdain for conservative principles from the party of Reagan.

[Elsie]

Your screenname has activated a trigger:

What is your church doing to help the male to stay true?

 

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"All of this should be conveyed without having priesthood leaders focus upon intimate matters which are a part of husband and wife relationships. Skillful interviewing and counseling can occur without discussion of clinical details by placing firm responsibility on individual members of the Church to put their lives in order before exercising the privilege of entering a house of the Lord. The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice. If a person is engaged in a practice which troubles him enough to ask about it, he should discontinue it."
- Official Declaration of the First Presidency of the Church, January 5th, 1982

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"Prophets anciently and today condemn masturbation. It induces feelings of guilt and shame. It is detrimental to spirituality. It indicates slavery to the flesh, not that mastery of it and the growth toward godhood which is the object of our mortal life. Our modern prophet has indicated that no young man should be called on a mission who is not free from this practice. What is more, it too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation-practiced with another person of the same sex and thence into total homosexuality...."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Pages 77-79, 81-82

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"Among the most common sexual sins our young people commit are necking and petting. Not only do these improper relations often lead to fornication, [unwed] pregnancy, and abortions - all ugly sins - but in and of themselves they are pernicious evils, and it is often difficult for youth to distinguish where one ends and another begins. They awaken lust and stir evil thoughts and sex desires. They are but parts of the whole family of related sins and indiscretions. Almost like twins, 'petting' and fornication are alike."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 65

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"Also far-reaching is the effect of the loss of chastity. Once given or taken or stolen it can never be regained. Even in a forced contact such as rape or incest, the injured one is greatly outraged. If she has not cooperated and contributed to the foul deed, she is of course in a more favorable position. There is no condemnation where there is no voluntary participation. It is better to die in defending one's virtue than to live having lost it without a struggle."
- Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, page 196

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"And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth." (Genesis 4:9-14.) That was true of murder. It is also true of illicit sex, which, of course, includes all petting, fornication, adultery, homosexual acts, and all other perversions. The Lord may say to offenders, as He did to Cain, "What hast thou done?" The children thus conceived make damning charges against you; the companions who have been frustrated and violated condemn you; the body that has been defiled cries out against you; the spirit which has been dwarfed convicts you. You will have difficulty throughout the ages in totally forgiving yourself."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965. Often-used quote still used today in LDS seminary classes.

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"I do not find in the Bible the modern terms "petting" nor "homosexuality," yet I found numerous scriptures which forbade such acts under by whatever names they might be called. I could not find the term "homosexuality," but I did find numerous places where the Lord condemned such a practice with such vigor that even the death penalty was assessed."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, "Love Versus Lust", BYU Speech January 5, 1965

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"If adultery or fornication justified the death penalty in the old days, and still in Christ's day, is the sin any less today because the laws of the land do not assess the death penalty for it? Is the act less grievous? There must be a washing, a purging, a changing of attitudes, a correcting of appraisals, a strengthening toward self-mastery. There must be many prayers, and volumes of tears. There must be an inner conviction giving to the sin its full diabolical weight. There must be increased devotion and much thought and study. And this takes energy and time and often is accompanied with sore embarrassment, heavy deprivations and deep trials, even if indeed one is not excommunicated from the Church, losing all spiritual blessings."
-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness, Page 155

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"How like the mistletoe is immorality. The killer plant starts with a sticky sweet berry. Little indiscretions are the berries -- indiscretions like sex thoughts sex discussions, passionate kissing, pornography. The leaves and little twigs are masturbation and necking and such, growing with every exercise. The full-grown plant is petting and sex looseness. It confounds, frustrates, and destroys like the parasite if it is not cut out and destroyed, for, in time it robs the tree, bleeds its life, and leaves it barren and dry; and, strangely enough, the parasite dies with its host."
- Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, General Conference Address, April 1, 1967.

 

 

[Elsie]

I would miss some of those pic

[Elsie]

Well you can go crying to Mr. Robinson or you engage in debate ?

Oh boy!

Fresh meat!!!

[Elsie]

Seriously, dude ? Are we going to spend hundreds of threads and thousands of posts debunking that nonsense again ?

SLC is pumping these dudes out by the THOUSANDS!

They are WILLING to give up a year or more of their lives for The CAUSE.

[Elsie]

Most people say no to romney but can not name a suitable replacement.

Most anyone...

[Elsie]

Tie your OTHER hand behind your back, too, so that the “I Love Mitt” folks will have an even chance.

[GOPsterinMA]

Some FReepers desire more of “His Rickness”.
They will be enthusiastic supporters of “Governor Pelvic Thrust”.

[Elsie]

Please tell me how Obama in office is better than Romney.

Conservative, animal lover, Florida Realtor

HMMMmmm...

 

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[GOPsterinMA]

If this is true, why not just run George Bush I again? Sad...

[swpa_mom]

Odd, you and others here on the premiere conservative website are SO quick to attack Romney, any Bush......

Meanwhile in Washington, DC, you are seeing the results of your efforts.

At LEAST you don’t have that absolutely horrible non conforming, non conservative Romney in the White House. That would have been SO horrible.

The attacks I receive here on the premiere conservative website honestly don’t matter. The election process in this country is well known. IF you want a certain candidate to be elected, get going, start working for that candidate! I don’t see that here. What I *DO* see, however, is attack after attack after attack on good, decent people. All of you who are anti Romney and anti Bush should be meeting to prop up your perfect conservative, the one who will defeat Hillary.

By the way, who is that person?

[Elsie]

Pizza??

I was PROMISED cookies!

[Elsie]

 

 

No, no, NO!

 

I said MUFFINS!!!

 

[Elsie]

Romney could have won every debate against the idiot in the Whitehouse.

Who couldn't?

[Elsie]

So did you support Obama against Romney?

The Either/Or trap?

Really?

[Elsie]

Thanks bub...your obtuseness gave us a Gay/Marxist/Muslim for President.

Nope; faulty Republican leadership did.

Only a non-Christian would CHOOSE a Deceived MORMON to lead what was a Christian Nation.

Is this what YOU are?

(Binary)

[Elsie]

The national election was a binary matter.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world.

Those that understand binary and those who don't.