Posted on 09/19/2009 2:11:17 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is the preferred 2012 GOP presidential nominee among Christian conservatives, according to the results of a straw poll announced Saturday at an annual gathering of the religion (sic) right in Washington.
Prominent Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader John Boehner, took to the stage at the Value Voters Summit to blast President Obama's spending policies and announce the top 2012 presidential pick among conservative voters.
The summit's poll, which featured 9 presidential prospects, found that 28 percent of Christian conservatives said Huckabee would revive the Republican party and traditional conservative principles while 12.4 percent preferred former Massachustts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Other strong contenders included Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who won over 12.23 percent of conservative voters. Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence came out in in a virtual tie at 12.06 percent and 11.89 percent, respectively.
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Nominate rinos and lose gop... fools and idiots... I WILL NOT VOTE FOR huckster or mitt under ANY circumsatnces. EVER!
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It’s Jindal or Palin in 2012. Everyone else is just wasting their time.
Huckster? Romney? Pawlenty? What a joke!
Gov. Mike Huckabee 28 %
Romney 12.4 %
Gov. Tim Pawlenty 12.23 %
Sarah Palin 12.06 %
Rep. Mike Pence 11.89 %
I didn’t realize it but four of those people attended and spoke at the summit, one did not.
They must love saying "President obama." The Huckster is even less appealing than McCain.
i’ll withold mu vote for President before i’ll vote for Huckabee!!
“zero lied so well that voters actually thought they were getting a fiscal conservative”
He never offered anything but hope and change which don’t mean anything!!!
Agreed.
On Sept 23rd, Palin will be flying to Hong Kong to make an economic speech to an international investment company. Past speakers at the company were Alan Greenspan and Al Gore. This is a speech that you prepare for carefully. It could help develop Palin’s gravitas on foreign policy and economic issues.
Epic fail.
“These values voters, many of them moderate “choice” voting Baptists, Catholics and Evangelicals, see Romney as a member of a religious cult, and their perception of Sarah Palin is largely shaped by the media. They see her as a drag on the Republican party.”
Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s my two pennies.
Everyone does, the Greek Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodists, Lutherans ect., all Christian churches are on the same page on this. don't let people lead you to think that this is some Baptist or Southern thing that is limited, it is universal among all the major Christian denominations, all of them require Christian Baptism for Mormon converts.
In truth, I will vote for anyone with an R after their name. I held my nose and voted for McCain. Those who did not are responsible for Obama.
Whoever the Republican nominee is we have to support them. The main objective has to be GETTING RID OF OBAMA! If we are fragmented on our nominee there will be country left by 2016 because Obama will have destroyed it.
Meant to write: no country left. Sorry.
If the main objective is beating Obama, Mike Huckabee’s name doesn’t belong anywhere near the list of people to do it.
I disagree. Huckabee is a very shrewd politician and he rarely ever stumbles on his words, he is very articulate and has a Reagan sense of humor that appeals to folks. He wouldn’t have messed up the Couric and Gibson interviews as badly as Palin did. He slam dunked every other candidate during the primary debates, with logic and humor.
Even some libs realize that Huckabee is a good contendor against Obama (esp. if Obama’s numbers continue to tank and end up in the 30% range by election period). This is a post about it on the Huffington Puffington Post from a lib:
Do not mistake a pretty face with a real politician.
“Huckabee is shrewd. His political talents are vastly underestimated. You may think of him as a tool of the right, but he knows how to play to independents, minorities and moderate Dems and Republicans.
Two years is a long time in politics, but I predict Huckabee will have another good run and he might even get the nomination. I predicted (wrongly) that he would get the nomination in 2008 because of his ability to connect.
He’s someone we can all identify with on one or more levels. He nursed his wife through a bout of cancer (loving husband). He spoke out against detractors of Jeremiah Wright (fair-minded). He lost a lot of weight (the kind of willpower and determination most of us envy). He plays the Blues (cool). He’s friends with the Clintons (bi-partisan).
Democrats should not fear Sarah Palin. They should fear Mike Huckabee.”
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