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Huckabee Wins 2012 Straw Poll at Values Voters Summit (Fox News)
Fox News ^ | 9/19/2009 | Fox

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012gopprimary; 2012strawpolls; christianvote; dobson; huckabee; mikepence; valuessummit; valuesvoters
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Nominate rinos and lose gop... fools and idiots... I WILL NOT VOTE FOR huckster or mitt under ANY circumsatnces. EVER!

LLS


121 posted on 09/19/2009 4:42:28 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
No huck... no mitt... or no LLS voting for POTUS... for the first time in my life this is NOT negotiable.

LLS

122 posted on 09/19/2009 4:44:04 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

It’s Jindal or Palin in 2012. Everyone else is just wasting their time.

Huckster? Romney? Pawlenty? What a joke!


123 posted on 09/19/2009 4:52:16 PM PDT by Falcon28
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

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.


124 posted on 09/19/2009 4:55:32 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Mike Huckabee is the preferred 2012 GOP presidential nominee??

They must love saying "President obama." The Huckster is even less appealing than McCain.

125 posted on 09/19/2009 5:31:55 PM PDT by GBA
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

i’ll withold mu vote for President before i’ll vote for Huckabee!!


126 posted on 09/19/2009 5:34:11 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Aria

“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!!!


127 posted on 09/19/2009 5:37:34 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: pallis
This Christian conservative likes Huckabee but also loves Sarah Palin and Jindal. I think by 2012, we all will be on our knees praying for a Christian president who is well read in the Bible, loves America and a big supporter of Israel. I like that he is a pro lifer and that he supports the second amendment. I do not like what I heard about him supporting illegals working at Tyson Chicken but most here are not very convincing in changing my mind by showing his family photos and name calling. Dems tried doing that with Sarah Palin. If you do not want Huckabee for GOP POTUS, state facts why he would not be good at it.
128 posted on 09/19/2009 5:42:09 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: SolidWood

Agreed.


129 posted on 09/19/2009 5:49:07 PM PDT by xuberalles (Quality, Conservative Novelties: The Right Stuff! http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

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.


130 posted on 09/19/2009 6:12:18 PM PDT by DanZanRyu (Hannah Giles is proof that Evangelicals make America great!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Epic fail.


131 posted on 09/19/2009 8:34:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

“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.”


I don’t think that’s quite right, at least not for these entire groups, but you have hit on the main problems for both Romney and Palin. I frankly would rather have Romney than Huckaboob any day, and I’m a Baptist. They do consider his religion a cult, but some of us say so what? We’re not talking about electing a president of a theological seminary, but of a country. We all know, like him or not is irrelevant, he would be destroyed because of his religion - the Huckaboob already saw to that last year. Sarah changed the whole thing for many of us, and I don’t think that many in these groups are swayed by the media’s attempted destruction of her. At least Baptists and evangelicals (same thing basically) are not. We know one of our own when we see her. Nobody I know saw her as a drag, that’s for sure. She was more like a miracle. And now we just pray she will run.

Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s my two pennies.


132 posted on 09/19/2009 11:14:35 PM PDT by CatDancer (Obama DeathCare makes Grandma shovel-ready)
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To: BunnySlippers
"I don’t want a religious nut for president!"
Then don't vote for Willard.
133 posted on 09/19/2009 11:32:15 PM PDT by NoRedTape
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To: CatDancer
They do consider his religion a cult, but some of us say so what?

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.

134 posted on 09/20/2009 12:06:29 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: NoRedTape

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.


135 posted on 09/20/2009 1:08:24 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Certainly shows that these “value voters” at this convention have no values!
136 posted on 09/20/2009 2:55:49 AM PDT by iowamark (certified by Michael Steele as "ugly and incendiary")
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

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.


137 posted on 09/20/2009 8:09:32 AM PDT by deannadurbin
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To: deannadurbin

Meant to write: no country left. Sorry.


138 posted on 09/20/2009 8:10:32 AM PDT by deannadurbin
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To: deannadurbin

If the main objective is beating Obama, Mike Huckabee’s name doesn’t belong anywhere near the list of people to do it.


139 posted on 09/20/2009 8:58:50 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

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.”


140 posted on 09/20/2009 11:01:29 AM PDT by deannadurbin
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