From the LA Times:
Romney, who ran for president in 2008 and skipped the conference, received 439 votes. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who also ran in 2008, finished second with 438 votes.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin finished third with 330 votes and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was fourth with 321 votes. The rest of the field trailed far behind.
(You can read all of the poll results here)
One vote? There is only one vote separating male model Mitt Romney from crazy ass Constitution loving leprechaun Ron Paul? And then their third choice is the empty headed, palm note writing, talking point spouting Sarah Palin? And THIS is the party that is going to compete against Barack Obama in 2012?
Ha!
I have seen fraternity keg parties better organized than this party.
Mitt Romney is going to have an incredibly difficult time getting the Republican nomination, partly because he is completely uninspiring, but also because the Obama Health Care plan is almost a carbon copy of Mitt Romney's Massachusetts health care plan. Kind of hard to throw that Socialist mud at your opponent when it keeps bouncing back and hitting you in the face isn't it?
And Ron Paul will never get the money men to back him as long as his message is essentially a pox on both your houses. I find it almost comical that almost a quarter of the respondents to this straw poll voted for the guy who essentially is against everything the Republican party stands for today.
Which of course leaves Sarah Palin. As crazy as it seems, and I almost can't believe I am typing this, she may actually be the only viable candidate left after the Romney and Paul camps cancel each other out. (Isn't that how she got elected to be Governor of Alaska? Why yes it is .)
However with at least half a dozen devastating new books coming out this year (not counting Levi's which I do not believe even has a writer yet), and new revelations coming from this website and others, I doubt very seriously that the Republicans want to pin any hopes on Sarah Palin's chances. Even the GOP is not THAT desperate! Are they?
would it be possible the rethugs don't nominate ANYONE and Obama slides on through with a majority win, against NOBODY??? LOLOL!
ReplyDeleteThe nominee is going to be someone who isn't on that list. Jeb Bush perhaps. Those who are lurking in the weeds instead of running around making fools of themselves are going to pop up and steal the thunder.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would rather have the participants of the fraternity keg party run against our President than to have these characters from the loony bin. The debates and dialogues would be more intelligent.
ReplyDeleteGOP could get Tina Fey to run as Tina looks like Sarah, sounds like Sarah but is a whole lot smarter than Sarah. Besides, Tina's kid is not knocked up, breaking in to homes or buying booze with a fake ID.
ReplyDeleteTina Fey is a Sarah Palin with a whole brain.
I agree with Anonymous 7:14 AM.
ReplyDeleteSomeone such as Jeb Bush is "lurking in the weeds" ready to "pop up and steal the thunder."
Even with all the negative baggage the Bush name carries, Jeb, when compared to Romney, Paul and Palin, comes across as reasonable and moderate. I am not saying he is - just that in comparison to the loonies he looks more appealing to Republicans who can't quite bring themselves to leave their traditional home.
Plus, he might well win over the Hispanic vote due to his marriage. I don't know enough about Floridian politics to say he has good relationships with the various Hispanic/Latino groups there, but the generalized presumption is that he does.
I also do not know if he has skeletons in his closet that would frighten away Independents or if the specter of Dubya campaigning for him would be sufficient to turn folks off.
Perhaps we should do more in-depth research on him, because who else could the Republicans push forward if Romney, Paul and Palin cave. I do not think Newt has much of a chance - that man has so many creepy things in his past that mainstream America would choke.
I think others with lesser name recognition might have a harder time gaining traction for a long time to come, but then we cannot forget how quickly Palin came to the foreground.
this is truely an historic low for the republicans. these are the best they have? how embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the others that there's a good chance that their nominee is most likely to be someone not on that list. and if it's jeb bush, wow, what will that say about the republicans that they keep relying on the same family? there's no one else in this country of 300 million? only the bushes can save america? pathetic.
I wonder if mccain will run again. he really seems like he thinks he's entitled to that job.
Whooooosh.... sounds like someones star is falling!
ReplyDeletePalin is now trying to get as much money as she can drain from her dumba$$ followers who are probably getting tired of hearing "Going old school - poor mans teleprompter", Only dead fish go with the flow", "How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya"
I think the Jeb Bush scenario makes sense. But then when you consider the Repubs and all the incredibly stupid things they have done in the last year, who the hell knows? Palin will never run for political office I don't think because she is too lazy, not to mention just downright so misinformed on any subject she may be called on to ahem, debate with another candidate. I think as gasman pointed out one time, she is uneducatable. It will be interesting to say the least.
ReplyDeleteIf you read the comments on some of the red blogs, it seems both Paul and Romney bought and gave away many seats in the venue that voting took place. Palin did not.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that means she is any more popular, but the fact remains her third place is legit and Romney and Paul's first and second were not.
THAT fact should scare the shit out of everyone!
Do some research. The election is 2 1/2 years away. The last SRLC straw poll was won by Bill Frist while on the Dem side, Hillary was way ahead in every poll over Edwards and Kerry with Obama tied with 'Not sure.'
ReplyDeleteHere's a little dose of sobriety: First, this "straw poll" is meaningless compared to Ames straw poll which Romney won with 37% of the vote and McCain finished next to last with .7% of the vote.
ReplyDeleteSecond, guess prices are headed towards $3.00 + a gallon and higher than $80.00 a barrel. Now, when the economy is fairly sound, recovery requires gas to be about $60.00 a barrell. That is almost a certainty NOT to happen--especially by labor day.
Follow me on this: high oil prices mean a stalled recovery and if prices are topping out by labor day which they almost always do, voters will go to the polls for the midterms seeing a job market that is dead in the water, retail sales down, and basic economic indicators sagging.
Here's the bottom line: Jimmy Carter came from out of nowhere to ride the fumes of an impotent republican administration to his victory in 1976.
If gas keeps going up, the lawsuits against the healthcare package gain traction (and they WILL in Florida's second district where the first suits will be filed), the joblessness rate does not dip beneath --9.7% where it is now (the highest in 27 years)--Tina Fey's gig isn't going to help much.
Bit back to the "straw polls". Romney won 11 the last time around--three were "homies" (Utah, Mass, etc;) and eight that were inevitably of no importance.
But it doesn't matter right now who is hot and who is not for the right because Obama seems intent on being a one-termer. He's alienated the English, French, Australia, Canada, and Israel--and a good deal of Eastern Europe.
Toss in Germany and Spain for the duplicity of the bidding for the successor to the C-135, the coming storm of the court fights about healthcare that will kick off in Florida's "friendly" second district" and you have a volatile brew that could send the left back to the 1850's.
Hey! Our frat parties were always very well organized, thank you. We had to plan around those engineering and management schedules.
ReplyDeleteY'all are scaring me with the "Jeb Bush may run" talk. I am from Florida and know a little bit about politics here, enough to say I think his relations with Hispanics specifically Cuban/American constituents is good enough. Also don't forget 2010 comes before 2012 and his godson Marco Rubio is running for Mel Martinez' senate seat.
ReplyDeleteWith the recent Supreme Court decision allowing essentially as much Bush money going to whoever they want, I will find it hard not to believe in an elaborate conspiracy theory that includes putting certain Supreme Court justices in place if Rubio wins the seat AND if Jeb decides to run for pres. in 2012. Unfortunately, by 2012 if that conspiracy theory is correct, it will be too late.
I think the key will once again be getting out the vote in the Nov. 2010 elections. Plan now, everyone, to either help with voter registration, or driving seniors to polls, or just helping to get the truth out about candidates' records. Youth vote too will be important. That's what I'm working on.
@ Anon 10:26
ReplyDeleteNot sure where you get the idea that so many nations dislike him. KRudd likes Obama, and I think really likes Hillary. Our 'man in Washington', Kim Beazley, appears to like him too.
Can't speak on behalf of other nations, but the heads of state seem to have warm relationship with Obama and certainly greet him with more enthusiasm than they greeted Bush. Merkel in particular seems relieved there's no more creepy back rubbing.
so many choices:
ReplyDeleteThe anti-war Ron Paul?
the universal health care Gov Romney?
or
the quitter with more ethics violations than Bernie Madoff?
I agree with anon7:14.
ReplyDeletethe real candidates are busily running their shadow government
Sarah Palin is simply being used as the entertainment -- just the way the drunken trust fund frat boys use the stripper
Anon@ 9:58--The polls show that more Americans blame GWB for their present cirmcumstances than blame President Obama . I think most Americans know what the president is up against. I can also recall that it was under GWB that gas prices rose to almost $5.00/gal. Part of the solution to increasing gas/energy prices would be for people to embrace energy independence, but the reason so many don't is because the so-called conservatives have convinced them that it is unnecessary because we can drill ourselves out of any problem. As I see it, the major problem with people understanding what this country needs to survive are the lies that are told 24/7/365 on the conservative side of the aisle. Take climate change for example, McCain has proposed cc legislation in the recent past, but now, he is 100% against it. I think Americans should ask themselves why politicians are willing to watch the country decline instead of doing what they know must be done. I also believe that for the sake of regaining power, the conservatives will lie to their supporters until the problems become too large to ignore and too great to do very much about. If Americans had listened to President Carter, we would have made great strides toward energy independence by now.
ReplyDeletemy money at the moment is on gingrich/palin for 2012. gingrich is already working it with his comments at the convention - he's trying to start building her cred. and i'm betting, though not as heavily, that her 'policy speech' was written by the gingrich camp. he needs her crowd to overcome his history so he'll stroke her ego enough to get her onboard. this all assumes, of course, that no major bombs drop between now and then ... (please! please! please!!!)
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 10:36 - I also do not know where you get your information, but I hear POSITIVE comments about President Obama from most countries. I know that the Canadians appreciate him far more than they ever appreciated Bush.
ReplyDeleteThat said, if this part of your comment is untrue, good chance the rest of your information is suspect also.
Miss Dead Lake Lucille is not going to be anyone's SECOND FIDDLE this time, so any ticket that starts with some name other than hers, is not going to happen.
ReplyDeleteand who would want her going rogue on them, which she would?
I watched Newt G the other day on a video clip and he outright lied to whoever on faux as asking him questions and they let it go by even though everyone knows he lied. How could anyone trust someone like that?
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