Posted on 04/11/2015 1:01:10 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker won the Charleston County Republican Party’s straw poll Saturday as the GOP came together to organize ahead of the 2016 election season....
....Saturday’s convention was part of the regular business of the party. The straw poll was loosely conducted with about 240 delegates eligible to take part.
Presidential hopeful Walker was recently in Charleston where he spoke out against unions and in support of Gov. Nikki Haley. He drew 24 votes or about 10 percent of the total.
The next top finishers were: U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, 20 votes; R-Ky., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., 18 votes; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, 11 votes; and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., eight votes. U.S. Sen Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., finished at the bottom with one vote. Straw votes are not considered scientific.
One potential presidential candidate did show up to the gathering, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who got three votes. He told the group that two of the biggest issues next year will be confronting radical Islam abroad and defending religious liberty at home.
Radical Islam “seeks to destroy everything you believe in,” said Santorum. He has not formally declared he’ll run for president in 2016 but was visiting multiple county convention sites Saturday, including the Berkeley County GOP.....
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These pols are all over the board.
I have a feeling that Rubio has made a deal with Bush to run as a conservative to pull votes from the others and then throw them to Bush at the last minute, like Huckabee did to McCain. It won’t work.
[Sen. Rick Santorum] told the group that two of the biggest issues next year will be confronting radical Islam abroad and defending religious liberty at home.
My Dear Senator, those are two of the biggest issues confronting America this year and for the last two decades.
By the way. As time goes by, Walker will be revealed not to be a true Conservative. Perhaps his win prompted your response.
Every election we have people line up behind someone who is good in one or two areas writing off the rest of the Conservative principles for their fair haired hero.
That costs us more than you will every grasp.
Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney... when does it end?
Evidently not until the U. S. is on the ash heap.
Rubio pulls from Bush. Bush is pulling in money and looking to wound the Front Runner of the Day. Ideally, we should clear the field for Walker to go head to head with Bush.
Jeb’s votes are important. They tell us what his support is with the grassroots and hopefully the GOPe moneymen will notice sooner or later. He needs to have his traction slipping now.
I like that his number look bad now. To tell the truth, I thought McCain and Romney were out of it at some point along the way in both their runs.
I hope you’re right and Bush just tanks.
lol. the guy isn’t a recent arrival on the scene, unlike other candidates.
Okay, that’s four people who have completely gone ‘in the tank’ for a guy that isn’t worth your support.
I like Walker’s actions against the unions. I like that he stood up to them and defeated the recall effort.
Now what? Do I look the other way on everything else?
Here we go again, a group of people here who settle in behind one person and push it until it destroys our efforts to get a Conservative the nomination.
Every four years, this repeats. Every four years the GOPe and RNC have their minions here to make sure the best candidate is defeated.
Support for Walker will be no different. This has become so predictable.
Reminds me of....
“Ross Perot sent a team in to rescue hostages, he should be President”
lol
Well of course...
I missed the announcement that you were appointed moral arbiter and soul of the conservative movement.
Born November 2, 1967 in Colorado, CO (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Liewellyn Scott Walker, born in IL
Patricia Ann Fitch, born in IL
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Scott Kevin Walker is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
I missed the notice that you had the ability to think rationally. I guess we’re even.
President Cruz would be better.
dude. that first sentence. fail.
John, I’d suggest you stick to that sort of post.
You certainly know nothing of Conservatism if you’re able t back Walker.
About 240 were eligible to vote, but the totals mentioned add up to 85. Does that mean that almost two-thirds did not vote, or there was quite a scattering among other potential candidates? Huckabee, Christie, Perry, Kasich, Jindal, Fiorina, and Trump could have picked up a few votes apiece, but that would still leave more than half the eligible voters unaccounted for.
Get real. You know of Walker wins the nomination you’d crawl through a cat’s litter box to vote for him.
Meow
Like I did for Bush the second time around? Yeah..., like that will happen.
Walker is another “Can’t send them back” man. He envisions them staying here but never being citizens. His other favorite line is, they get in the back of the line and get no preferential treatment. He seriously doesn’t realize them staying here IS PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT!
Hard to be in the back of a line you never entered in the first place.
This is the super-market, and they cut in front of everyone. They even cut in front of citizens, getting preferential treatment to us.
Walker can’t grasp this issue at all.
If he is this lame on illegal immigration, I don’t even care what his stated policies on other issues are.
Any guy that says he doesn’t favor amnesty, but won’t say he’ll send illegal back, is a fraud.
We’ve got one now. I don’t want another.
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