Mitt Romney's Louisiana (Straw Poll) Purchase

TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 04/13/2010 | Gary P.

[Patriot1259]

How sad and pathetic is the effort to prop up Mitt Romney, to make him look like a viable candidate for 2012? Pretty sad.

As is done at every big political gathering, a straw poll was held at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. These things are generally worthless as a predictor of who is a viable candidate though, Bill Frist won the previous poll at the SRLC, for example.

At this year’s CPAC event, Ron Paul won the polling, making a mockery of the entire process. In fact, so many shenanigans have been going on lately, there has been talk of ending the practice of conducting straw polls at these events altogether.

After the SRLC, that may just happen.

[Tanniker Smith]

Frontrunners at this point tend to crash and burn before the primaries.
Except for Bob Dole.

[Flintlock]

On the other hand................
This filthy process forces our RINOs out into the open so that we can get a clear shot.
IT’S TIME TO HUNT THE RINOs, BOYS AND GIRLS111

[icwhatudo]

Romney learned from the Paulbots that buying lots of event tickets (CPAC) and stuffing ballot boxes equals mentions of “WINNER!” in the media with no explanation of the trick.

[Diogenesis]

MITT ROMNEY EXPOSED BUYING VOTES
NEW ORLEANS -- I spoke to a young female delegate who said she planned to vote for
Romney in the poll. I asked her how she had ended up at the conference.
She said "Evangeli cals for Mitt" had contacted her and offered to pay for her to have a
limited-access ticket -- so long as she agreed to vote for Romney in the straw poll.
Asked how "Evangelicals for Mitt" got her name, she said she didn't know. But she said
that she was on the email list for Romney, and speculated that the Romney team
had given out their email list. “

[silverleaf]

I hope Romney doesn’t turn into the next McCain, the GOP candidate selected for us by “independents”, “cross over” voters and RINO intellectuals who have discovered they are actually contemptuous of conservatism

[dangus]

Here’s what’s funny:

Ron Paul got fewer tickets than he paid for!

[b4its2late]

Mitt Romney? Ron Paul?

If these two are the front runners of the right, we're screwed.

[Notary Sojac]

Either the GOP gets rid off crossover primaries, or we’re all gonna have to learn to love Mitt.