Romney Wins SRLC Straw Poll By One Vote

I would think this is a good thing...very interesting.

The Mittster has a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nomination. Al Giordano's got a really good early analysis of the Republican field here. My hunch is that Gingrich will win what will become a re-run of 2008's "Anyone but Mitt" festival.

Wow, only 18% were delirious enough to vote for Bible Spice. And that's with the coveted Sean Hannity bump! I thought this was her crowd, her base, her lunatic fringe, don'cha know, also, too, you betcha.

Im a solid progressive so dont take this wrong...but am I the only one who thinks that Ron Paul is by far the least scary of the republican potentials?

I read somewhere last week that the Mittster won eleven
states in the 2008 primaries. Three were his home states,
Mass., Mich. and Utah. The remaining eight were caucuses.
Caucuses aren't going to win him the nomination. They're
nothing but bought votes. He can't win a real primary.

Those percentages are a mess.....lol........we're going to kick their butts..

The real loser here is Timmy Pawlenty. He's spent a ton of time out in the GOP boonies trying to raise his profile, making appearances with Palin, trashing Romney, suing over HCR . . . and he gets a whopping 3 percent. Tying Mike Pence and barely edging out Santorum is nothing to brag about, and certainly not worth destroying your entire political future by going the full wingnut.

Paul has a dedicated following and Mittens can always buy the best organization, but both have hard ceilings on their popularity. The real question is who the Paulites would vote for second, since that person is likely to be the winner of most closed primaries. Please let it be Newt. Or Palin. Or really anyone on this list.

Remember when Bill Frist won the SRLC Straw Poll in 2006?

Wonder how much this win cost mitt the flip. You know he had to buy it with this crowd.

I really wish Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman would run as the GOP ticket. That would be so fun!!!

So Mitt wins the straw poll. Uh, what's that saying? Oh, yeah; a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

The fact that Ron Paul is winning, or coming a close second in these polls, is terrible news for Republicans.

Of course, Conservative political energy won't disappear, but it shows just how shallow the GOP bench has become. It's one thing to win elections, but it's quite another to govern well enough that you keep winning them.

Of course, the fact that Romney is seen by many Conservatives as being too Liberal for their modern movement, really doesn't leave them with many options.

Every one of their winners is branded on the forehead with a scarlet backwards "L" from 2004.

It's like picking through leftovers looking for the least spoiled bit of meatloaf.

Liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans alike can understand one thing: the U.S. Constitution. If you understand the philosophy of what America is meant to be, then you would never have voted for Bush or Obama. Problem is that the neo-cons basically run the Republican party, supported by Faux News and the hijacked Tea Party by GOP pundits. On the other hand, we have Liberal Democrats who have been spoon fed just as much propaganda by their college professors and corporate media (CNN & MSNBC) to support another corporate sponsored puppet politician like Obama. If you knew how deep the corruption went in our gov't, and how much mainstream media and stupid political parties work to divide us and have us fight amongst each other, it would make your head spin. Have you ever heard a Presidential candidate ever tell his constituents that he or she doesn't want to tell people how to run their lives? That it's the people who should decide how to live their lives without gov't intereference? To keep what you earn and spend it as you see fit in YOUR community? No, you haven't. Ron Paul is the people's candidate simply because he doesn't pander to corporate media or the banksters who truly run this gov't. It's time to unite folks, otherwise, they win.

Straw poll? People won't vote for a straw man in 2012. Voters will elect a sexy, seductive, stern, strict, sensational woman as US President: Gov. Sarah Palin.

Palin/Gingrich, 2012?

Add their numbers together, and you have the extremes captivated.

None of them really give Ron Paul a chance, but he still represents the Perotists who are stuck somewhere on a floating decimal point between Wall Street and The Farm.

The GOP is not split right now. It is shattered.

Paul's got the true Libertarians, Sarah's got the Tea Party crowd, the Romneyites hope there's some way to pull in enough moderates to win and Newt is hoping to be the palest dark horse in history at a time when the GOP can't afford an old white guy who follows his dick around all day.

2012 is a long way away and the mood of the country could be very bad indeed. Even with that, the GOP needs a serious candidate at the top of the ticket and these four aren't even close.

I wouldn't count Timmy out entirely. The others have a lot of baggage and Timmy has been careful to be the vessel for whatever the powers that be want Republicans to be today and if they want him to be someone else tomorrow he'll be glad to oblige. Timmy has no principles and stands for nothing and no one. He will do what he is told. He is not a loose cannon. He will read any script they hand him.

There was an interest dynamic at their little gathering in Louisiana. Several members of the party leadership got up and lamented about the Party of No moniker that has been aptly applied to the GOP. And then some speakers (including Ms. Palin) championed the term and called on everyone to refer to themselves as the Party of "Hell No".

The GOP is unified in what they're against, but they still have no clue about what they as a political party are for.

"...just a seven votes ahead of the fourth-place finisher, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich."

oooooo that must irk the Newster.

I find it interesting that only 3 of those on the list are currently elected officials: Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, and Mike Pence. All the rest are sort of "has been" politicians who are relying on their past records to carry them through, but they have no current political springboard from which to make their case for taking the next step. When you are on the sidelines, it's easy to throw grenades. Other than giving speeches and going on talk shows, tell me one thing that Mitt, Newt, Sarah, or even Huckabee have DONE since leaving office. They talk a lot, maybe write books, and probably raise money for other republicans, but they are very removed from the current "Republican leadership" of Boener, McConnell, and even Steele.