Posted on 04/10/2010 3:56:34 PM PDT by speciallybland
Mitt Romney: 439 votes
Ron Paul: 438 votes
Sarah Palin: 330 votes
Newt Gingrich: 321
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Yep..you are right. I was trying to put it mildly, but there’s really no use beating around the bush.
Romney bought 400 tickets, so he got 39 votes. Paul, amusingly, bought 800 tickets. So 360 of his people voted for someone else.
LOL. You’re right! Newt just can’t help himself. He just has to go into professor mode. He still has some good ideas, but he’s not the right messenger. Like you said, he is yesterday. He long ago let the democrats and the news media define him, and in the interim he made some fatal errors by cozying up to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and others, and he also fell for the global warming hoax. Too stuffy, elite for the GOP and for a Southerner regardless.
Either that, or they sold their tickets, bought some weed, caught a good buzz and forgot to go vote.
It kind of harshed their buzz a little when they realized Mitt got it by one vote.
No offense meant. I just didn't want you to read too much into these results. And I can agree with your observation about lots of southern candidates. However I really believe it's different this time. Too many people are really scared where the country is going. This morning on F&F they had results of a national poll that believed their children will have a harder time of it than the current generation. That is scary but I think many of us can agree with it. Romney and Newt represent the typical eastern establishment and to a large extent are from the past. No one is going rally around Ron Paul. Sarah has the most people excited right now, but that doesn't discount that others may come along in the next couple of years with her passion and ability to energize crowds and express the ideas of smaller, more limited government.
You mean Paul got -360 votes?
This was post yesterday by btm. Sarah know the time to switch to policy oriented speeches are on the horizon.
New Orleans (CNN) - Will Americans start to hear more policy speeches from Sarah Palin in the future?
“Absolutely,” Palin told CNN in a brief interview outside her New Orleans hotel on Friday. “The more of that, the better.”
The former Alaska governor chatted for a few moments after wrapping up her speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference,...
She devoted much of her remarks to the topic of energy policy, a move possibly designed to prove to Republican insiders that she’s as passionate about policy issues as she is about fiery political combat.
Palin, emerging from the Windsor Court Hotel wearing a zip-up NASA sweater over her suit, told CNN she had a “blast” addressing the conference and promised to continue with a policy-oriented message.
“It was fun to talk to people of something of substance, like energy, that is so appreciated by these folks because they know that unless we have this energy independence, we will not be prosperous, we will not be secure,” she said. “That’s what I wanted to concentrate on today.”
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LOL. My favorite!
Yes. Paul paid for more people to be there than voted for him.
No, the vote means nothing. Bill Frist won the last SRLC poll in 2006, and only because the convention was held in his home state.
- JP
Right, thanks for the reposting for others to see.
Sarah will choose her own time to talk policy.
Lame stream media doesn’t dictate to Sarah...lol.
read it on freerepublic this morning...before the vote...
I seen this over at HA. It a rather astute comment.
Gov. Sarah Palin in running. She will be running on The Energy ticket. She told us at the end of her speech.
Gov. Palin: “all we need is the political will. There is nothing that is stopping us from achieving energy independence that a good old fashion election can’t fix.”
She then stood there and smiled and the group went wild but then she slowly slipped in that “the election is only 7 months away.”
She was not talking about mid-terms.
ROFL!
maybe those votes were from the members of Dede’s PAC that got in...
Just like the politicians of old that gave away free beer and cigars.
Palin owned the day, yesterday. Glad I wasn't there today.
Pfft! What else is there to say? ;)
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