Romney picked as 2012 GOP front-runner

[Ghost in the Machine]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Conservative activists on Saturday named former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of a poll for best 2012 GOP presidential candidate.


Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won 20 percent of the vote in straw poll for presidential favorites.

The poll marked the third consecutive year Romney came out on top.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal placed second in the annual poll, conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Romney received 20 percent of the vote and Jindal got 14 percent.

Close behind were Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who each received 13 percent of the vote.

The results were culled over two days from 1,757 of the party activists who came to Washington for the annual conference and filled out ballots on Thursday and Friday. Nearly 60 percent of the straw poll participants were between the ages of 18 and 25. More than half of the conference attendees this year were college students.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/28/cpac/index.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. *yawn* so what else is new?

Mitt ALWAYS get picked every year for CPAC. And then doesn't get the nomination.

Hawkeye-X

[saltpoint]

2. Too bad for the GOP that Romney would NEVER accept the nomination.

Very likely it's the last thing on his mind.

He's shy, retiring, self-deprecating, and withdrawn. You won't see Mitt Romney around any mikes or cameras, nosirreebob.

[dysfunctional press]

3. romney/palin....bring. it. on.

:rofl:

but- depending on how/if things are going by then, ron paul might actually be a scary prospect.

[RoyGBiv]

4. OFFS ...

:eyes:

Doesn't CNN have something better to do ... like report current, meaningful news ...

Oh what the hell am I saying ... of course they don't.

Carry on.

[arcadian]

5. "Mitt, willyour administration be based in Salt Lake City or Washington D.C. ?"

Keep pounding him with that question and his campaign would be finished.

[Baikonour]

6. I was honestly surprised to see Ron Paul poll so high.

The republicans really have gotten desperate.

[KharmaTrain]

7. If Those Polls Meant Anything...

The only thing it shows is how fractured that inept party is. 20% like Mittens, but there 80% of that biggoted party that will never vote for a guy with magic underware. Then there's the developing "battle" between Sarah Mooselini and Piyush Brady that will divide the "newcomer" vote...and, of course, Newt, still dreaming of being King of the United States. He doesn't want to be elected, he thinks he's too good for that. He want to be annointed.

These polls mean zero...other than for a good chuckle.

[grytpype]

8. He washed out of the primaries!

[snowbear]

9. Remember the "non-endorsement" the Concord Monitor (in his neck of the woods) gave him?

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Here's a section of what they wrote-

As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1994, he boasted that he would be a stronger advocate of gay rights than his opponent, Ted Kennedy. These days, he makes a point of his opposition to gay marriage and adoption.

There was a time that he said he wanted to make contraception more available - and a time that he vetoed a bill to sell it over-the-counter.

The old Romney assured voters he was pro-choice on abortion. "You will not see me wavering on that," he said in 1994, and he cited the tragedy of a relative's botched illegal abortion as the reason to keep abortions safe and legal. These days, he describes himself as pro-life.

There was a time that he supported stem-cell research and cited his own wife's multiple sclerosis in explaining his thinking; such research, he reasoned, could help families like his. These days, he largely opposes it. As a candidate for governor, Romney dismissed an anti-tax pledge as a gimmick. In this race, he was the first to sign

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071222/OPINION/712230301

.... Good God, the Republic Party SUCKS!!!!

Pa-freakin-THETIC.


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