Mitt Romney Wins SRLC Straw Poll

Fox News ^ | 04/10/2010

[speciallybland]

Mitt Romney: 439 votes
Ron Paul: 438 votes
Sarah Palin: 330 votes
Newt Gingrich: 321

[rbmillerjr]

You are deluding yourself about Paul.

He will get the fractional percentage that he always gets.

[marajade]

Ron Paul believes some pretty far out things; even if the man was 50, he wouldn’t appeal to me.

[SoCalPol]

[rbmillerjr]

“What does it say that the “viable” candidates can’t beat Ron Paul? Either Ron Paul is stronger than you think, or the other candidates are weaker than you think, or both.”

LOL...they crush Paul in real elections.

How old are you?

[truthfreedom]

40 people w/ Ron Paul tix missed the registration deadline which was 1p.

[onyx]

It’s a very telling statement by Ronald Paul, because it exhibits that he has really lost grasp of reality. Can’t call Obama a socialist, and certaintly not a Marxist!

Reminds me of his PAULTARDS who don’t go after Obama either.

[ansel12]

On line polls, candidate financed straw polls

Paul doesn’t win real votes, why do you think that being one of the old members of the permanent political class with almost 40 years in the business, that Paul has never been able to move out of that little, rural, Texas district?

[onyx]

WOW. That’s gave me the good kind of chills.

It says it all.

[EternalVigilance]

This is my opinion of this event and the Republican Party reality it represents:

This is a party that has completely lost its way.

[truthfreedom]

All those things that you mention have been in place for years. With the internet, people can get info now without media bias.

But we won in 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000, 2004.

Middle East adventurism is unpopular. It makes Republicans lose. Moderates, Independents, the undecided, people who are not ideological, they all do not want more Middle East adventurism. Middle East adventurism is popular here, I know. It isn’t conservative, and most people don’t like it, but I know that it’s popular here.

[SoCalPol]

>Middle East adventurism>

I have several relatives serving tours in Iraq and Afghn.

I am in San Diego with the larges concentration of military.

Any military I speak with, they know why they are there
and understand this is about our own freedom..

Your term of Middle East adventurism I hear from the Marxist Code Pinkos.

[truthfreedom]

Well, when he ran in 2008, he did raise a lot of money. Most of that money came in real late, especially compared to other candidates. Even when it was pretty clear that he wasn’t going to win, people still kept giving him money. That’s not usually how it goes. So, he doesn’t win, but he still has a big pot full of money. He turns the political organization into Campaign for Liberty (why not) and people give that organization money. What’s he going to do with that money?

This isn’t Mitt Romney, who was spending Mitt Romney’s money.

I think Ron Paul is spending the money in ways that he thinks his supporters would want him to, if I was going to guess.

[GlockThe Vote]

Any romney come lately is the answer?

[montag813]

Sarah didn’ buy a single seat, except maybe Todd’s. She was the winner. She and Rick Perry, because they gave the best speeches, imho. Romney is a metrosexual loser, and Ron Paul is just an asshole.

[CedarDave]

Real or photoshopped?? Where and when taken??
(It’s not that I’m interested in anything but where and when you understand...)

[truthfreedom]

You are deluding yourself about Paul.
He will get the fractional percentage that he always gets. You need some help with your reading comprehension. Nowhere did I comment at all about how many votes I thought he'd get. I said he'd get a lot of money right away. And the numbers of people that would go to the straw polls would grow. I didn't say anything about how those things would translate into votes. With a series of 1s and 2s at these straw polls he wouldn't be slotted by the media as a 3rd tier candidate like he was in 2007. Logically, winning or coming in second in straw poll after straw poll would put him into the top tier, but the media (we love them don't we) is likely to call Ron Paul a second tier candidate, and call Newt a top tier candidate with no evidence whatsoever to back that up. Newt's a globalist, and the media (they're our friends, right?) loves globalism.

[truthfreedom]

Real votes are a long way away. All we have until then are certain measuring sticks, and these particular straw polls (CPAC and SRLC) have always been very important measuring sticks at this stage.

When Sarah lost at CPAC, what did people say? Wait till SRLC, she wasn’t even at CPAC, she’ll be at SRLC, she’ll win there, she’s boycotting CPAC because John Birch is there. Palin came in at best 3d in both. Paul came in first or second in both.

Counting both CPAC and SRLC, Ron Paul did best. Palin’s performance was poor. You’re making excuses for Palin.

The real story here is how bad everyone did. No candidate can get 500 Republicans in a room to vote for them?

This was a big one, so was CPAC. No potential Republican candidate was kickass enough to get a mere 500 warm bodies to vote for them.

It looks worst for Palin. (Next to Paul, I like Palin the best). Palin is the most famous of all of them, and was the most recent VP nominee. A superstar, famous, draws high tv ratings. But where are the votes? Newt belongs on VH1s “Remember the 90s?” Romney did a better job than Paul of turning his tickets into votes, so good for him, I spose, but Mitt had to use his own money, and Paul is using money that people are continuing to send to him and money that he had left over from his 2008 run.

[truthfreedom]

If these straw polls don’t matter at all, why are you on this thread talking about something that doesn’t matter at all?

Real elections are a long way away. What Paul, Romney and Palin have in common is that they all were “crush(ed) ... in real elections” in 2008. Romney lost too, don’t forget. And so did Palin. (Although I do believe that Palin helped McCain, the fact remains that she lost, and if you talk to Democrats, they’d argue that McCain/Palin were crushed)

[achilles2000]

Having said what I said, I actually like a lot about Newt, but he isn’t going to be President and isn’t the kind of candidate we should push forward.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

I like SP, contribute to her PAC, but do not like getting too involved in ME. It is not close enough to US to justify the ground war we got ourselves in, IMHO but at this point if we back out, US will look foolish. I know SP supports the war but i hope she understands that war 500o miles away is not a very popular forign policy platform and can bleed political capital very quickly/

I have said for years, that Libturds on SCOTUS and Congress have done far more damage to this country than Nutty Muslims so electing someone who will get us good Justices is job #1, though health care and economics may even trump scotus in 2012. Let the Nutty Muslims have Iraq, Afghanistan, just keep them barefoot and in the stone age militarily

RP just too much of a fringe candidate, too far from mainstream what a conservative can expect. We need some indies to win and RP will not help there.