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Drudge readers surprise GOP elite for prez
WND ^ | 3-9-2014 | Drew Zahn

Posted on 03/09/2014 1:38:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing

March 9, 2013

DRUDGE READERS SURPRISE GOP ELITE FOR PREZ

Become latest to defy D.C. establishment in sizzling new poll

Drew Zahn

When it comes to picking a presidential candidate for 2016, the GOP elite is having a hard time getting the grassroots to toe the establishment line.

Top Republican strategist Karl Rove, for example, has repeatedly praised Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, as “a strong potential candidate in 2016,” whom Democrats fear will win the nomination.

And when other names gained popular attention, particularly attention among the so-called tea-party crowd, the man known as the “architect” was quick to criticize.

Rove, for example, blasted potential presidential hopeful Ted Cruz for not playing ball with the GOP establishment, just as the Texas senator’s name started to gain traction with Republican voters.

Rove similarly opened fire on Sen. Rand Paul, R-Tenn., for talking about Monica Lewinsky and potential Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the same breath.

And even if Christie has fallen from favor among the establishment, other GOP insiders have floated names like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and even the return of former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as possible nominees in 2016.

But now a poll on one of the Internet’s top websites, the Drudge Report, reveals the ground troops just aren’t buying it.

With over 234,000 votes counted, Rove’s “strong potential candidate,” Christie, was garnering less than five percent of the vote. Bush had just over six percent. Ryan had less than four.

But despite fiery criticism from the GOP establishment, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was registering over 28 percent in the Drudge Report poll, while Tennessee Sen. Rand Paul was leading the survey, with over 30 percent. Paul’s 72,297 votes compared impressively to Christie’s 11,437.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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To: TsonicTsunami08

24.8%...

Not sure where the hell you are getting your numbers from.


201 posted on 03/09/2014 8:25:31 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Cruz/Palin - Palin Cruz. I’m flexable.

Paul supports them man who just said he’s gonna crush the TEA Party. I could live with Ted.


202 posted on 03/09/2014 8:26:00 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Dead Corpse

To clarify...live with Ted Nugent. West is fine as well. Not big on his Pigford/Trayvon sympathies but he’s still well over 80 Percent.


203 posted on 03/09/2014 8:30:48 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Rand supported him to help get traction to change Ky rules for a Senator keeping his office while running for higher office. Plus, that support for McConnel came before Mitch opened his fly catcher.

Rand still supports him after this latest kerfluffle... Then I’d agree. F*ck him and the horse he’s chosen for himself.


204 posted on 03/09/2014 8:32:52 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Some of West’s recent speeches on RKBA have really won me over.


205 posted on 03/09/2014 8:34:27 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Norm Lenhart
We regret to inform you that Agent Lenhart has been removed from your case for breaching secrecy protocol.

Well, ain't that a crying shame? I was just about to offer him a test drive in this here vintage Shelby Cobra and a free lunch.

Seems I keep running into all sorts of weird luck with these Ford trucks. I'll be in the parking lot if he changes his mind!

206 posted on 03/09/2014 8:35:57 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Dead Corpse

He’s off my list regardless with his amnesty crap but it would be to his credit if he tells Mitch to pound salt. He can’t serve two masters.

Yes, he does have good ideas/positions. But that’s existential stuff for America. Amnesty kills us.


207 posted on 03/09/2014 8:36:05 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Windflier

Unfortunately Agent Lenhart has been permanently reasigned to Ft. Marcy Park. We thank you for your concern.

Check...”Rosebud”...check...

Look into the light...

Agent K
NSA MIB Division


208 posted on 03/09/2014 8:38:31 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Been a lot of fluff posted about what Rand’s position on immigration is. Only legislation I’ve seen him purpose is “nothing else considered until we have control of the border.”

When your ship is sinking, plug the hole first. We were saying that back when Bush first took Office and did pretty much... Nothing.


209 posted on 03/09/2014 8:39:08 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Dead Corpse

The way I see it, Mitch votes pretty conservative too at times. But he does an awful lot of balloon floating and such I see Rand mirror. That is never good. Can’t trust him.


210 posted on 03/09/2014 8:41:10 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
Look into the light...

Homie, that's a maglite. And quit blinking that thing like that. Yer givin me a headache.

211 posted on 03/09/2014 8:41:40 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

He’s been a conservative vote so far. Unlike Mitch, McCain, etc...


212 posted on 03/09/2014 8:42:24 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Dead Corpse

And look at all the confusion right here on FR over him on what he does on his ‘off time’. It aint that hard to be conservative without setting half the base against the other half. That’s the sort of crap Mitch “I’m gonna crush the Tea Party” does.


213 posted on 03/09/2014 8:48:25 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Windflier

Subject 4511138,

Apparently your conditioning has failed. Please sit in the back of the van and await a driver to transport you to a reeducation facility.

Agent K
NSA MIB Division.


214 posted on 03/09/2014 8:50:13 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart
Hey. Barney Fife. Run down to the motor pool and get me a pair of left handed pliers. I need to talk to Norm for a minute.

(check yer doggone freepmail, would'ya?)

215 posted on 03/09/2014 8:54:02 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Dead Corpse

No. They have a network that they can mobilize nationwide to pack polls. But, they cannot mobilize voters, locally, on Election Day.


216 posted on 03/09/2014 9:14:59 PM PDT by Din Maker (If Ted Cruz gave Rand Paul one of his balls, they'd both have one.)
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To: Jonty30

IMHO, you’ve got the roles, and individuals, reversed.


217 posted on 03/10/2014 5:32:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Actually, if our years here have taught us anything, “We eat our own”.

With alarming regularity.


218 posted on 03/10/2014 6:27:27 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: Servant of the Cross

No, unless you believe that Cruz is a better statesman and Rand Paul the better bulldog. Typically, the VP twists arms and the President acts as a statesman.


219 posted on 03/10/2014 7:09:50 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Dead Corpse

Define “Our own”. If ‘our’ willingly includes giving aid and comfort to one of the biggest RINOs to ever pollute the Republican party, then I want no part of ‘our’. Especially when there is a conservative running that could potentially remove Mitch from power.

I also note that people love the phrase “Hold their feet to the fire”, yet when someone actually does it, it becomes “Eat our own”.

Can’t have it both ways folks. Simple reality.


220 posted on 03/10/2014 1:52:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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