Posted on 01/22/2011 1:31:10 PM PST by Suvroc10
Former Governor Mitt Romney this afternoon handily won a New Hampshire straw poll of the party faithful, demonstrating his strength in the crucial first-in-the-nation primary state.
The poll, conducted at the Republican State Committee meeting in Derry, had Romney at 35 percent. Trailing him were Representative Ron Paul (11 percent), former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (8 percent), former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (7 percent), and Representative Michele Bachmann (5 percent).
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I knew it; Republican primary voters think they are required to vote for the loser from the last cycle on future nominations. They need help with new candidates’ names.
Not to worry. When the debates start, Myth is going to have to defend his positions. There will be at least one Conservative who will jam it down his throat. It should be fun.
AFAIK, the media are the only ones talking about Romney or Huckabee. The voters would prefer a conservative.
I remember Fred Thompson destroying Giuliani on immigration. “But they can stay in the country...but they can stay in the country...but they can stay in the country.”
Real conservatives have the retorts that are necessary to beat the moderates. Unfortunately, Thompson then supported McCain. He should have helped destroy him too.
I dream of the opportunity to ask Mitt Romeny one question on national television: “what’s the difference between someone who ran to Canada during Vietnam and someone who ran to France”? And he had the nerve to be a war hawk from France to boot. Just another chicken hawk fortunate son.
LOL. Yes..this is laughable.
Who are these “we don’t want to rock the statist boat” Republican voters??
I fear we will end up with a watered-down candidate (that doesn’t scare the libs!) and lose again to Obama.
Where are the cojones??
Yes, those that put party over principles.
Mitt then Ron Paul... what's in the water up there??
Paid by the GOP. Can you say bribed? SRM liars as usual.
The GOP doesn’t seem to be learning much from November.
If the Republican party is looking to lose the 2012 Presidential election they’ve made a very good start in NH.
I like your tagline “Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?” but it could use improvement. Try this: Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... RINOS...Who can tell the difference?
If Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination we are moving to France.
I mean, how many people live in N.H. to begin with? About 500?
Easy Tex, we can carry in the open, and we have less illegals than you.
They do that a lot, but it isn’t loser from last time, it’s just who has been around a long time, what Republican is well known and seemingly solid and reliable.
Mitt Romney really isn’t well known. Yes, he did lose last time, but Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee both stayed in the race longer. Mitt got tired of spending his own money and dropped out before Huckabee did. And Ron Paul stayed till the end, because his people kept spending money even though he wasn’t going to win. Ron wasn’t really spending much at the end either.
There’s no reason Romney should get that “old republican everyone knows”. Gingrich has more of a claim than Romney.
Paul has at least as much as Romney.
And Palin should have it, but the media doesn’t like her.
But she is the one, not Romney, who was the VP nominee, when more people were paying attention than when Romney was losing.
Lost Nom Before - McCain (Paul, Huckabee, Romney)
Famous name - Bush
Losing VP - Dole
VP - Bush
Lost Nom Before - Reagan
VP - Ford
Lost gen Before - Nixon
none of the above - Goldwater (memory getting fuzzy here)
VP - Nixon
That’s good enough.
Famous name - Any Bush, Any Reagan, other famous names? Romney has a tiny bit of that from his dad.
VP - Cheney, Quayle
Losing VP - Palin
Lost nomination - a huge list - Paul, Huck, Mitt, Rudy from 2008. But also go back to 2000, and to 1996.
Dole’s VP run and his getting the nomination were 20 years apart. How old is Pat Buchanan?
lost general - mccain dole
Fred and John were always friends. When Fred got in, many thought it was to help John. There’s one debate where Fred reacted very positively to whatever John was saying.
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