Yay! Freeper heads exploding - Romney won straw poll. Palin came in

[Happyhippychick]

tied for third with Ron Paul - LOL!

[Olney Blue]

1. Hope this sends a message to Sarah: Stay in Alaska

[Laelth]

26. No. I'm dying to see Palin/Jindal in 2012.

Talk about a rout in the making. Please make it so.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Still Sensible]

2. Who the fuck was second?

It's like the third or fourth time Romney has won this poll. It's great theater. The supply siders love Romney, but too many of the fundies still consider Mormonism a cult. It's a real problem over there in Freeperland I tell 'ya!

[Happyhippychick]

5. The results were Romney 20%, Jindal 14%, Paul 13%, Palin 13%, Gingrich 10%

Poor Hucky didn't make the top 5.

[rainbow4321]

7. LOLOLOLOL..Jindal beat out Palin???? n/t

[Historic NY]

9. wow and he has less going for him too...not much to look at either...

after all the money the RNC spent on clothes for her too.

[old mark]

19. ...and Palin beat out Gingrich!

He must be very pissed.

mark

[tekisui]

15. Glad to see the huckster is lagging far behind.

[yurbud]

20. those are all good news for us. GOP moneybags would never tolerate Paul as nominee and Obama would

mop the floor with the rest of that pack.

Romney still looks like the guy who fired you.

Jindal is a goofball, liar, and exorcist.

Palin would be wiped out in a general election.

And Newt is still Newt, a dick that probably even most republicans secretly loathe. But he would get his own vote (if not any of his ex-wives' votes).

[Towlie]

46. Did you say Romney? I guess I'd better hang onto this animated anagram I made during the primaries.

[

[Cha]

3. That reminds me..someone

came into the co-op yesterday with a vintage "Ike" button on and a "ron paul for president".. I didn't engage him in conversation, I just said I was happy with what we got.

It will be interesting to see who can go the distance in the gop for the 2012 election against Obama.

[zeemike]

31. They will probably just run a ham sandwich. n/t

[GiveMeFreedom]

41. LOL

:rofl:

[zeemike]

44. Hey am I your first LOL on DU

Welcome.

[Wapsie B]

4. Having Romney in there would definitely not attract the conservative fundies.

Major paradigm shift there.

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Who be second?

[bluestateguy]

8. Romney would be the Republican Walter Mondale and 2012 would be 1984 in reverse

Go for it.

[Every Man A King]

10. What Straw Poll ? n/t

[NMDemDist2]

30. at CPAC

the conservative crazy pac meeting

[NC_Nurse]

11. I'm surprised Jindal did so well after his preschool speech the other day.

They are really in trouble! :o

[monmouth]

12. Rush told them he still loved Bobby so they follow suit.....n/t

[PfcHammer]

28. Does Rush have jungle fever for Bobby?

[8 track mind]

37. nice!

:rofl:

[valerief]

13. You're saying Yay for Mittens? Ugh! They're all Boos! Every last one of them. nt

[sufrommich]

14. This one's hilarious:

"To: ChessExpert
Either bobby jindal proves he is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN or I will DESTROY his chances to be President or Vice President.



122 posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:28:57 PM by FreeManN (www.ObamaCrimes.info)
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lol! Someone has grandiose delusions.

[PatGund]

38. *LAUGH*

I see the birthers claims may come back to bite them on the ass. (Obama Crimes is Philip Berg's nuthouse, BTW).

You see, they're all claiming that a "Natural Born Citizen" means BOTH parents US citizens, and preferably born in the US, (some birthers will give an exemption for military children, others won't)

That's why some of the nutballs claim Obama is a citizen, or a "native-born" citizen, but not a "natural-born" citizen, because his father was not a US citizen. (they usually cite de Vattel's "Law of Nations" as proof, though since de Vattel isn't referenced in the US Constitution, it's kinda hard to understand why they think that's what the Constitution is REALLY referring to).

So now you have the up-and-coming GOP star Piyush "Bobby" Jindal. Not only are BOTH parents not US citizens at the time of his birth, but his mother, BY HIS OWN ADMISSION, was four and a half months pregnant with him when she arrived. To the birthers, he's a "native-born" but not "natural-born" and therefore cannot be President. (To the immigration nuts, he's worse, he's an "anchor baby")

[shaniqua6392]

16. Too bad the Christian Right will never vote for someone in a cult.

They do not consider Mormonism a religion. My church (Lutheran) spent three weeks in our bible class criticizing Mormonism. Too bad for Mittens.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

29. If the Lutherans have a problem with Mormons

the batshit crazy snake handlers and witch hunters that are the Repig base won't touch Mittens with a 100 foot pole.

[shaniqua6392]

45. That is exactly right.

There is no way in hell they will accept him. That is why he has won the straw poll a few times and then he gets beaten down. They just don't want to admit the true reasoning behind it. Mormons are not true Christians according to the religious right that is such an important part of the Republican Party.

[PatGund]

39. Let's see....

Rommney - LDS
Jinhal - Roman Catholic

Neither of them would be acceptable to the fundie right.

[Kahuna]

17. FCOL! If you're going to bring us news like this, you gotta remember..

to provide the link! ;)

[Happyhippychick]

33. I purposely didn't provide it. The link, which is on CPAC, is a downloadable PDF file. I am

always wary of asking others to download links but I did it and it was safe.

[Vinca]

18. I'm surprised they didn't vote for Limpballs. nt

[pipi_k]

22. No kidding!

I'm sorta disappointed.

I would expect him to at least come in second...


He's just not working hard enough to attract all those sensible voters...


:7

[RollWithIt]

21. In my opinion, the only Republican who has a chance in 2012 is Charlie Crist.

And he'll be running for the Senate in 2010 so I don't think he'd go back to back. Nor do I think he has any interest in challenging Obama as he actually agrees with him on most issues.

[nakanishi oshi]

23. Straw polls are far from reliable

Did McCain ever win a CPAC straw poll prior to his nomination?

[alcibiades_mystery]

24. Awwww...did your idol lose?

:rofl:

[nakanishi oshi]

25. No

What do u mean? I'm a Democrat. i'm trying to say that Freepers are getting excited over a poll that does not accurately predict victory. I think all of those are going to be defeated by Obama.

McCain is too old and a loser now. He's out of the question. Heck, he was too old in 2008 lol.

[sufrommich]

27. That's hardly freeperish. John McCain would have never won a

straw poll of conservatives, a CPAC poll isn't really indicative in a primary battle.

[starroute]

32. Here are some earlier years' results

2007:

Romney 21%
Giuliani 17%
Brownback 15%
Gingrich 14%
McCain 12%

2006:

Allen 22%
McCain 20%
Giuliani 12%
Rice 10%
Gingrich 5%

[Happyhippychick]

34. Has Gingrich ever run for Prez? He sure appears on that straw poll a lot.

[Top Cat]

35. Huckbee didn't even make the list

[the other one]

36. According to GOP succession history

Romney gets the nomination.

However, with the party in such disarray it could go to anyone.

[Renew Deal]

40. I think Romney has a good chance too

And Obama will eat him alive.

[Honeycombe8]

48. Romney was their best chance in 2008, but the far righters, who were still in control

at that time, would have none of Romney because of his history of vagueness on abortion. Bwahahahahahaha!

So they ended up with "Greetings, fellow prisoners" McCain. THEY think McCain lost because he was a supposed moderate. They say, "See? We need to get back to our strict conservative roots!"

But the far righters are talking about far right wingnut SOCIAL issues. The rest of the pubics are talking about FISCAL conservative issues. The latter likes Romney (who MIGHT have edged out Obama in '08 because of the economy), and the wingnut religious wackos like Palin.

Our dream ticket: Jindal/Palin, or vice versa. But the pubics will NEVER put two minorities on the same ticket.

[burning rain]

42. The FReaks are too dim to realize that straw polls don't mean jack.

Victory in them is easy to engineer for someone who's willing to spend the money. Hell, Phil "the Turtle" Gramm bought a huge string of straw poll victories before the 1996 GOP presidential primaries, and got nowhere in the primaries themselves. Romney could get the nomination -- don't get me wrong -- but a straw poll doesn't mean squat. It is just a crappy advertising gimmick for the group that puts on an event, and pols who spend their money to engineer a victory there are deluded.

[MrSlayer]

43. "I’ll take Mcqueeg, Romney or even Hillary over the bullcrap that is going on now"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196468/posts

Not really much of a fuss over it. A few decent quotes.




Doesn’t matter , he’s dead on arrival.



2 posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 09:07:58 PM by RED SOUTH
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To: RED SOUTH
I do wonder who will sacrifice themselves in 2012....



3 posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 09:08:33 PM by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
Best votes money can buy , but it doesn’t win you Iowa or New Hampshire or south Carolina. Well , you get the picture.
Romney still hasn’t learned after blowing 40 million of his own money in 2008.



7 posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 09:10:06 PM by RED SOUTH
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To: RED SOUTH
IT’S A STRAW POLL! IT DOESN’T MEAN S4!T



8 posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 09:11:03 PM by Pistolshot (The Soap-box, The Ballot-box, The Jury-box, And The Cartridge-Box ...we are past 2 of them.)
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To: Pistolshot
exactly!



9 posted on Saturday, February 28, 2009 09:11:39 PM by RED SOUTH
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To: gorush
Romney is marginally more palatable to me than McQueeg was. However he’ll lose just as many or more votes than McCain for other reasons.

[elias7]

47. Bobby Jindal is good, but he is no Sarah Palin

[cherish44]

49. Romney belongs to that morman cult!

Jimbal is a cathylick and was born to foreigners to boot! Palin should be at home a-takin' care of her man's babies and cookin' him a nice meal when he gits home. Newt is dee-vorced. Rush is dee-vorced. GOD disapproves of all them. They have no one.
BTW love your taste in avatars happyhippychick :)

[opihimoimoi]

50. Short Bench Syndrome means they gonna bring JEB to the rescue in 2012

all the so called front runners are anemic and tainted