Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Party Committee Straw Poll

The same tired old neo-cons trotted out again. If Dr. Paul does not get the nomination, this will be 2008 all over again. Neo-cons are just as brain dead as neo-liberals it appears.

Any vote other then Ron Paul is a waste, and an admission that the voter has no understanding of the fundamental problems. No if’s and’s or but’s.

There goes the farm. Obama must be very pleased at New Hampshire’s choice of another John McCain who can’t quite seem to articulate exactly what it is he believes in.
That’s what happens when you throw principle to the wind and try to be all things to all people.
While I personally despise despot-light Obama he won the election by using a clear message of redistribution. Even though it means slavery to the people it sounded nice.
Whenever the people have a chance between a socialist/democrat/statist and a republican/corporate socialist the “gift giver” will always win.
When the so called, “republicans” can figure out what they stand for and learn how to access new media they may have a chance. As of today, a fat chance.

Another squishy Republican, another McCain, another Gulianni, another Gingrich, another Huckabee. Republican so called front runners are not saying anything to stir up even an old folks home Historically winning anything in N Hampsire is not a good sign, hope it stays this way. Where was the poll taken at the Rino zoo? Reducing the Federal Debt only drew 15 percent, which isn’t suprising, a continuation of the Bush years spending lunacy.

Romney ran a state which allowed for socialised medicine that ran that state’s budget into te ground too. If romney wins it would just be another group voting for slick hair and a smile with no substance LIKE the people did in electing Obama. Time for some real thought and consideration as to what canidates say, what they have done and what they want to do.

Great showing for Sarah Palin! Go girl!

I guess NH just doesn’t get it..we don’t want the old RINOs! How about Herman Cain a REAL african-american and a CITIZEN!

IF ROMNEY chooses a conservative VP like Marsha Blackburn or Michelle Bachman, they will EASILY win. But Romney must be firm against illegal immigration and promise NO legalization of illegal aliens.

Romney is a PROGRESSIVE in a Republican costume. He doesn’t open his mouth without his finger in the air so he can say exactly what people want to hear regardless. NO! God NO! to Romney. It would virtually guarantee an Chairman O victory. There are many many Progressives disguised as Republicans. Beware and Be Aware. Until the Tea Party revolution this has been a one party system. Two sides of the same coin! Herman Cain for Prez!

What about Paul Ryan? He is new, fresh, fiscally conservative and passionate about his job. I don’t think Americans want to see same old, same old.

Listen up all you republicans in Washington! No Romney. We want Ron Paul. Do you hear us out here. We sent you there and we can vote you back home just the same. No Mitt Romneys ever. He’s a looser you trotted out before and we do not want him now nor did we want him then. Get It?

Romney, Gingrich, Huckabee, Palin, Paul and any other person in the politcal system can’t beat obama its going to take an outsider

The press picked the last President and Obama had the perfect storm and became President just like the old peanut man one and gone.

Do the Republicrats really want to split the party? Romney INVENTED manditory socialized health care!

I meant to say it can’T be Dr. Paul or Romney—then who?? My apologies for the mistake.

Ron Paul is the only of these candidates that would reduce the size of government.
He knows how to say “no.”

Can’t wait to vote for President Romney………
Wonder if Obama will get any votes in November 2012……………lol
What a clueless Divider-in-Chief…
Mitt Romney America awaits your clean smart pragmatic fiscal conservatism…….

Hmmmm…
Ron Paul is in Second place with an almost total media blackout.
Imagine what will happen when and if he gets some coverage.
Ron Paul is the only one I will vote for in 2012…I will write him in if I have to.

Just great.
Another establishment Republican (who invented the precursor to ObamaCare, no less) versus Ron Paul and his demented army of marching morons.
But there is still time for a true conservative to appear.

IOWA SAYS: NO MORE SONS OF BUSHES! Or any other Neeeeeeew World Order, open borders, globalist sellout! A conservative this time, if you want to win, Republican’ts!

This should have stuck in 2008. Romney would have easily defeated Obama, (actually Hillary if it appeared Mitt would get the GOP nod). We never would have experienced the debacle that is President Obama. His economic policies according to a Harvard study costs more jobs than are “created or saved”. Despite Romney’s “failure” at creating a “universal healthcare” policy – it is important to note it was a State Democratic Party creation that Mitt attempted to modify as Governor. It is also important to consider Mr. Romney is not on record of repeating the same mistake nationally.

PRESIDENT ROMNEY has a nice sound to it. Start getting used to it.

Romney
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cant win, he was railroaded during 2008
he was pushed off because he’s a Mormon
His debates were horrible, while his TV interviews were very good. Like two different people.
Palin
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can’t win. While I believe she has been unfairly characterized by the left. She is too ‘in your face’. She seems too hyper.
Rudy Gulliani
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seriously, I hate the way this guy talks. He talks fast. His accent and talking style never sinks in.
Huckabee
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talks too slow; he sounds impotent; he’s more like a pastor; not fully conservative. Way too monotonic! Too boring!
Ron Paul
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more of a hick version of Ross Perot, maybe just poorer. While the Austrian Economic theory does make sense for America, his comments about it didnt come across very well. His voice is too jerky. Remember Ron, you’re talking to Americans, they are basically dumb people that like a simple flair and pretty looks and a pleasing night time radio voice. How can you make sticking sound bites off of words of vonMises?
McCain
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was never a hero, he did not save anyone. He was in a foreign jail. Looks way too old, cant even raise his arms. His political fence riding and weird relationships with likes of Ted Kennedy on many bills was way too much for my stomach to handle. He was a pathetic candidate.
Gov Christie
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Yah right, good luck with that one.
We’re broke, we don’t have money too spend. Those are not words of genius, just the obvious.
We need leadership that not only takes us to zero deficit spending, but surpluses to start PAYING off the debt.
at this time there are no hopeful Republican, Independent, or Tea party candidates to win the presidential election in 2012

New Hampsire is meaningless since they allow folks to drive across the border from Mass. and vote in the primary….this is how McCain won it.

Ron Paul will not win a national election. Paul has some great ideals, but he lacks the ability to see in shades of gray. He is most vulnerable in foreign policy issues. He is an old school conservative isolationist, and that kind of thinking would be devastating for our future. We need someone that agrees with Paul’s fundamental beliefs, but at the same time understands that reality is more complicated than theory.

Where has Romney been on all the major issues of the last months? NOWHERE! We dont want another NOWHERE man in the White House and that includes Jeb Bush and his racist outreach to Latinos. I was keen on Trump but now I hear he funded Rahm Emmanuel’s campaign in Chicago. If someone does not stop the rise of China by bringing in a 20% tax on imports. lock down the border, deal with illegal immigration, cut the size of government and the deficit then America is going DOWN THE TUBES! America must be run as a business for the benefit of its people and not multinational, transnational corporations.

NO ONE IS GOING TO COME OUT AND VOTE FOR ANY GOOD OLE BOYS ANYMORE, CHOOSE A TRUE PATRIOT WITH THE BALLS TO SAVE AMERICA OR OBAMA WILL TURN THE US INTO ANOTHER EUROPEAN COMMUNIST STATE LIKE BRITAIN AND THEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE BECAUSE IT WILL BE ALL CIVILITY AND NO FREEDOM.

I am a conservative that would happily vote for Obama out of spite if this rino romney wins the republican nomination.

My gosh….not Romney. The republicans just don’t get it, do they? Probably never will.
They have trotted out these used up old hacks before and the people didn’t bite.
Why do they expect that has changed any?

Oh God…please no.

LOL…Ron Paul comes in a “distant second,” and the takeaway is that Tim Pawlenty’s even more distant third was impressive.
The real takeaway: The government/media complex is still against Ron Paul.

Yes, I agree… Ron Paul finishes ahead of Palin and everyone else, and somehow it’s a non-story? Wasn’t this guy basically laughed out of the last campaign before his overwhelming grassroots support forced him into the conversation?
Ron Paul will run in 2012, and he will make a strong showing.
Romney’s a joke.

Yup…just more of the same ole dinosaurs, they always bring off the shelf.
God help us.

@J.D. | Jan 22, 2011 5:29:42 PM
You are forgetting one very important point – DC politics is NOT run like a business – It’s all about back-room deals and of course the almighty $$$!!

“Reducing the size of the federal government: 49 percent”
Yes, and they’re choosing ROMNEY? Don’t they realize he implemented Govt Mandated Health Care (and HUGE government) in Massachussetts as Governor?
In the other corner, you have Paul… who is talking about eliminating the IRS, the Fed, and drastically reducing the military budget.
If the voters ever wake up and see this contradiction, Paul will win in a landslide.

Tho Palin has my heart, after Tucson I fear for her and even tho Romney is flawed, he might just be the quiet one to right this country. I really am tired of the drama. I am just ready for our country to be given back to the people and run by someone other than a socialist.

Sorry you blue blood, elitist republicans but we are not going to allow you to choose another RINO candidate for us.

Mormon
Vs
Kenyan
————- get the popcorn out ;)

@bastiat | Jan 22, 2011 5:15:45 PM
RE: as Obama admitted, he (Obama) does not understand economics and Romney not only understands it, he knows how to use it to improve business.
It’s NOT about economics – see my last post directed to @J.D. | Jan 22, 2011 5:29:42 PM!!

oh well, we’re all screwed

NOPE, NOPE, AND NOPE… If the Republicans put up Romney, its an automatic no vote from me. We need grown ups, like conservatives/libertarians, and sweep the slate clean. I dont like Paul’s Foreign policy views, but i would take him up in a heart beat over Blue state Romney.

@travis kennedy | Jan 22, 2011 5:53:00 PM
What are you smoking???…Palin will NOT see the “Light of Day” as the GOP nominee – She needs to stay in AK and stop putting her foot in her mouth!!!

Ahhhh, excuse me…..Romney Care????

Obama is a walking disaster and has to go. Had Romney gotten the ’08 nod (and Huckabee not sabotaged him in Iowa) Romney would have blasted Obama in the debates – would have won the presidency and our country would no be on the verge of on the verge of fiscal insolvency.

All you Sheeple need to wake up
We the people do not decide who gets on that ballot
The sooner you realize the better our country will be for our children and grandchildren
Look at Nevada – Harry Reid ?? Yeah he won fair and square – hehehe
Ron Paul gets it and the MSM will shut him off in a heartbeat
Paul would:
End Wars – Bring MIC in check and balance
Audit the Fed
Real transparency
Honor oath to the Constitution
Stop wasteful government spending and deficits
Lower taxes
Rid the Patriot Act
Rid the EPA
Give the country back to the people and all freedoms and liberties due
End the Chrony Capitalism
….on and on
That’s why they shut him down
Don’t forget Rand – they could not stop him though they tried
Srah Palin is so non establishment the Media will CRUSH her like they did in Tucson

Good to see Romney get this early boost. In my mind, his grasp of the economy (and what’s more, streamlining and fixing businesses in similar positions) and his very real, real world experience makes him uniquely qualified. Frankly, I doubt he’ll be able to get through the stupid “purity test” the parties push. If he can fix the economy, keep us strong, and establish a vision for American power in the next decade or two, I don’t care if he’s wobbly on abortion or initiated a health care plan in the most liberal state in the union. Priorities people.

@Chromefan | Jan 22, 2011 6:14:19 PM
You sir are “Brainwashed”…the Mormon religion is NOT a cult – if you seriously believe that one – then I have the proverbial ‘Bridge’ to sell you – and NO I am NOT a Morman either!!!

Palin and freedom or may the country do to the devil!

What about Michelle Bachman???
She was right after the rest listed, and she IS the Tea Party

I personally SWEAR to work against Mitt Romney if that gay agenda RINO moderate is on the ticket. GOPers, nominate him and and get four more years of Obama. That is a promise.

@Night_Hog | Jan 22, 2011 6:15:47 PM
RE: I could vote for Sarah Barracuda very easily… You may vote for her but, the majority won’t – She will NOT even be on the ‘Ticket’!!!

Well we have time for A true Constitutional leader
This country is in desperate need of a real patriot and a leader
No more elite global banking suck up lying thieves that cow tow to their masters and hand us a Puppet every 2 years – wake up America or tyranny will be easier sooner than the liberty they steal undercover day in and day out
How did this communiy organizer from The Kissinger foundation with 2 years senatorial ( no vote ) experience make it and destroy our country based on fear and engineered crisis ????
DO NOT let it happen in 2012

Must we get tag-teamed again?
Forget the Republicans. The leadership level has been suborned. They are beyond redemption.
No Dems. No Reps. Change we CAN believe in.
We need change and we need it fast.

@Frank | Jan 22, 2011 6:27:19 PM
*BINGO* – *BINGO* – *BINGO*!!!

Obama is the WORST president this country has EVER
had. He’s a cocky, arrogant, elitist punk.
Posted by: Callahan | Jan 22, 2011 5:23:56
PM**************And that cocky, arrogant, narcissistic
predecessor to Obama was any better? LOL!!!

Please…Not another establishment candidate! Right out of the back of the Sears catalog! If he is the one, me no votee!

RON PAUL came in 2nd! He should have won!

Sad this is the “best” the R’s have to offer. Talk about being stuck in the past..
I consider myself a conservative and we need someone with cahones. Not these “checked pants” neocons that are a bunch of do-nothing milquetoasts. Blech.

Palin is a nice little GOP sideshow, but honestly, who could possibly believe she has any chance of winning the GOP nomination? Ron Paul has some good ideas but he doesn’t realistically have a chance either. Romney’s business mind is what we need and he should have won it the first time. With the right running mate (not Palin!) he will easily beat Obama. When Pawlenty gets more exposure, he also has a good chance. I’d be very happy with either of these guys.

No Michelle Bachman? Sarah Palin showed a very impressive rating.
But, I do not believe in a women President or any women running a country. Don’t you men have any bawls?
Sorry, Michelle and Sarah but it’s a man’s world.
No more Anti-Pelosi or Uncool Obama. No relative of mine!

Oh good, the Mormon gets the straw vote. Will someone tell me how they expect a Mormon to run the Country when he can’t even get his own religious life in order? Mormons are NOT CHRISTIANS! They don’t believe Jesus is the Christ the only way to Heaven. Their founder got his “prophecies” out of an old hat he found in his attic. That right there should tell you how idiotic someone can be for following that garbage!

Do whatever you can to see to it that this man never becomes president of the USA. If it were between Obama and him, you would have to hold your nose; but, let’s get something better.

Take a look at Gary Earl Johnson.

Like it or NOT… Romney is going to be the man – if he picks Michelle Bachman or Ron Paul as a VP – then the ‘Fix is In’!! That would be a good balanced ticket!! Gotta go – Chow for now!!

I’m tired of the term Neo-Con because most of you Libs have NO CLUE about anything, much less where the term “Neo-Con” came from. The history of the word was applied by Dumbocrats to the intellectual Democrats who were fed up with Jimmy Carter & moved toward Ronald Reagan and are present day called “Reagan Democrats”. Romney isn’t a “Neo-Con”. And for all of you PaulTards out there, Ron Paul is a walking disaster. He voted for the last stimulus bill that had 9,000 earmarks in it, that failed in the Senate. He also took campaign money from the KKK in Texas and is a closet anti-semite. 60% of his supporters are openly anti-semite. He’s a real piece of work Libertarian, who only runs on the Republican ticket because he’d never get elected running as a Libertarian.

Will you people please stop!
Sarah Palin has no intention of running for President.
She is making to much money and wielding to much power to bow before the altar of Karl Rove.
Palin won’t run but bet your boots she will make Rove bow to her if his “Chosen Candidate” wants the conservatrive vote.
And have NO DOUBTS. Karl Rove the front man for Corporate America and his clique already have the candidate chosen. Nothing is going to change that.
So many whine “America Is Being Socialized.” No you are not. You are being “Corporatized and Gloabalized.”

So voting for TARP is a really fresh & fiscally sound discipline? Don’t mean to attack, but for the love of God, grow up Kerry.

The two people who will be the last two standing for the Republican nomination hands down are Mike Pense & Donald Trump. Guliani “might” take it, but we’ll see. The thing I like about Romney is that he hates China, so does Trump. In the end, Romney, Pense, and especially Trump would CLEAN dictator Obama’s clock. 2012 is going to be a laughable time to see the bowing dictator get his childish, teleprompter reading tail kicked!

If memory serves me correct,didn’t Mitt Romney rack up alot of straw poll wins before the 2008 GOP primaries.Where did that get him back then?Absolutely nowhere.This is absolutely irrelavent news.

This unscientific poll should make it abundantly clear that state Republican party committee members do not represent the voters who turned around the big-govt Congress and governorships in November.

Romney? Really? Why does the GOP have this incredible desire to lose before the election even gets started?
If the GOP doesn’t wake up and get behind Ron Paul then Obama will win in a landslide. No Contest.

If Herman Cain throws his hat in, bye, bye Obama. I’ll give every last cent to the Herman Cain campaign. I’d LOVE to see him in a debate with the teleprompter reading piece of work in the White House. If Ron Paul even comes CLOSE to taking the nomination, yeah, he’ll beat TeleBama, but we’ll have one weirdo on our hands.

Paul pulls second …but can the center right pull the base of the party together in the general election is the question.

Excuse me if this was posted already,maybe I’m not used to delayed postings, but I think it would be a shame if we considered Paul Ryan, he who votes irresponsibly for big government bailouts and nanny state programs. He is in every sense of the phrase the same old same old.

You people (I won’t say Republicans or Conservatives because I don’t believe you are) bashing Romney are nuts. If you would have supported him instead of a bigoted, anti-Mormon candidate (Huckabee or McCain take your pick) we wouldn’t have Obama today. Our Country needed someone like Mitt and you cost us four years of misery because of this socialist and keynesian experiment. Some of the misinformation about Romney is disgusting. You really claim to be Conservatives?

People here are crazy. Romney has the best chance against Obama because he wins independents. Obama isn’t Jimmy Cater and you can’t run a firebrand Conservative against him an win.
The country isn’t saying anyone but Obama so he will be hard to beat. Without independents the republicans lose.
ROMNEY/RUBIO 2012

Forgot Marco Rubio…he should be on the ticket, no doubt, then watch obama squirm.

Romney hid behind a religious deferment while McCain was suffering at the Hanoi Hilton. So what kind of Commander in Chief is he going to be if his religious convictions prevent him fighting back? Scary stuff…

Ron Paul….Please,save your enthusiasm, he has about as much of chance as Newt or Mike H.
And if either of two aforementioned people end up on the ticket WE WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA.
WE NEED A NEW FACE,
CONGRESSMAN RYAN

Don’t trust anything that has ABC’s fingers in it.

Have any of you people taken a look at Mitch Daniels? I guess if the guy says one thing you don’t like, like “economic issues are more important than the abortion issue”, he is off the list….so everyone can choose a Romney-type, who will say anything you want him to say.

Romney excites me about as much as McCain did! Yay!

Wow, Republicans are really big on repealing healthcare eh? 7 percent haha.

I hate to say this, but I would rather have control of the Senate in 2012 and re-elect Chairman Obama than to elect the charlatan Romney and keep the Senate Democrat. What we tea-party folks did wrong in 2010 is that we didn’t get rid of enough incumbent Republicans. They clearly are saying “We got the message” when they didn’t.

I’m beginning to think 90% of the tea party has their GED and the other half don’t! ;)

Bobby Jindal / Pence!

Go make RON PAUL signs and stick them up all over your neck of the woods. Let’s flood the streets with homemade signs.

Are you kidding? The Republicrats think Romney is a good choice because he’s only slightly more conservative than Obama, so will appeal to all the idiot “undecideds”? Didn’t these morons learn from the McCain debacle?
The Republican Party is doomed by its own stupidity.

Wiley – “Tea Party” is singular so your grammar is wrong. The word “DOESN’T” is correct not “don’t”.

“The “straw poll” was open only to the 426 registered members of the Republican committee, and 65 percent of those commitee members participated”
Not worth the time it took to write the story…

We need a President that understands the economy. This is MITT ROMNEY or Herman Cain. We’re in a Global Economy and this is a very different situation for America.
We don’t need just another politician who who will play political economics. We need a business man.
Romney/Rubio 2012

Romney will not get the GOP nomination. His albratross is Romneycare in MA. Pawlenty and Romney will split the ‘Bull Moose’ part of the GOP. If Guliani gets in, it splits it further. Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin will split the Tea Party vote. People who liked what Newt did in the Contract w/America wil back him up, especially in Iowa. HE has been working there for years in a grass roots campaign. Daniels, unfortunately does not have name recognition. I believe that the dark horse of the primary is HERMAN CAIN. The dems will not know how to handle him. He’s a true fiscal and social conservative. HE has executive experience in getting jobs and turning a failed business around….just what America needs.

I’m all for the mantra of the Tea Party Movement. That said, I have to judge Romney by what I’ve seen of him on C-Span (uninterrupted, non-soundbyte crap from the news).
He’s a brilliant man and can step away from the stump speech and go into great detail about what he believes and what he will do. He would have beat Obama in 2008 — but Florida threw the primary to McCain.
I think Romney is the best bet in terms of beating Obama in 2012. Things have changed quite a bit since Romney was governor, so I hope (and believe) he is smart enough to know that he will need to respond to the concerns of the 2010 voters.
Yes, I would like someone along the lines of a Ron Paul, but I just don’t see him getting mainstream support, and I’ve seen liberals tear him a new one a few times — he is not good at defending himself.

On Drudge (yesterday or today) was a story about a bunch of Libs and The Donald who just gave around $11 million to Rahm Emanuel’s campaign.
You really think he’s a Conservative?

We need a CONSERVATIVE with a track record of success. Mitch Daniels is THE no-brainer.
Otherwise, we need someone from the business world with a conservative background. Trump and Cain would both draw big crowds.
John Bolton for Secretary of State!
Fred Thompson for Attorney General!

Yeah, Im in for Paul Ryan. Sweep out these Old Republicans, bring in some new, fresh people. Please not the Same Good Ole Boys!!!

Yes, I’s be up for Herman Cain too. Bring in some new people. He seems very Patriotic and very Intelligent.

We don’t need another worn out politician given to us by the worn out political action committees. You folks on the so called steering wheel did not hear the call of the many behind you asking for action in whats wrong with American, you just choose to ignore the voters, well you idiots might get the message in 2012, we want new people that can understand the constitution and abide close to it.

Unfortunately, Ron Paul doesn’t appear poised for a run….
I’ll probably vote for the libertarian sacrificial lamb…. it’s better than the false choice of Kodos or Kang.

Only 49% of NH Rep. party committee want federal government reduced? Who are you people, and what did you do with the GOP? Whatever happened to “Live Free or Die,” your state moto?

I’m guessing most of you steadfast, conservative, tea party, Romney bashers (pro-abortion? Really?) voted for GWB in the 2000 primary. Ha! New fish! Give me a break.

You guys need to stop whining and walk a mile in my shoes. I’m a conservative in Andre Carson’s district. I’m so embarrassed I tell people I live in Texas.

Mitt Romney is a RINO everyone knows it – If Republicans vote for this guy they will get another Scott Brown. Romney, sold his values with abortion to get elected. He is not a strong ethical Conservative.

Neocon
Willard
for sale
or rent

Sara Palin WILL be the next president and these washed up liberals (Romney, Ron Paul, etc) with the fake (R) after their names will be OVER WITH. Thank God.

I’m sorry, but I’m very tired of the Republican Party who loses to people Like Obama because they can’t pick up on a candidate that is making real waves.

When the establishment Republicans and Democrats hate you, you must be doing something right. Ron Paul represents real change. If you watch the 2008 GOP debates again, it is amazing to see how poorly he was treated by his opponents and commentators.
2 years later, he is considered to be the “Tea Party’s Brain”, and his son is now the Junior Senator of Kentucky. If anyone won the 2008 GOP primaries, it was Ron Paul. The story here is that he won CPAC last year and finished second to Romney at the SRLC straw poll as well as in this NH straw poll. Ron Paul is a top-tier contender. and this time, he’ll have tens of millions of supporters behind him.
He is the only one who can defeat Obama, because he will bring in virtually all of the the constitutional conservatives, civil libertarians, independents, true progressives, and the anti-war Left disillusioned with Obama.

How is Ron Paul still being ignored?
Because he is a nut!

Ron Paul is the only elected politician with a consistent track record of voting in Congress to actually reduce spending.
Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin will talk big about reducing spending but will not rein in the Defense Department nor ignore the army of lobbyists in D.C. that have run our economy into the ditch.

If Romney turns out to be the candidate of choice…..all if can say is that my dream has come true.
He is the only one that can save this country.

Romney has the experience, Bain Capital (private sector), the Olympics (bureaucracy), and Massachusetts (hostile territory), needed to turn our country around. Things in Mass instantly started going bad after he left (3 of the top 5 companies left the state in the months after he left (GE, Fidelity, Intel/HP/Compaq not to mention the once promising fiber optic industry) He won or came in second in every primary state and had the most votes when he bowed out. McCain won all the blue states and Huckabee won enough of the red states. They tag teamed him to win and complained that he attacked them… waaahh. Is this what we have become?

Destin…give it up we need new blood

Absolutely, positively NOT! Mr Romney you are not a conservative you are a neocon! Please leave and join the Democrats where you belong!! We the vanguard of liberty will not let you pass!

Romney has to take the NO RINO pledge. He has to get agressive taking stands on Heath Care reform. Cuting taxes and Government.

Honestly, this country is beginning to sound like a bunch of whiners and loosers because it wants that “special” candidate to defeat Obama. We need to bring this country back where it belongs, ON TOP… onward & upward!! Romney can do it, he can also bring us back to where we can feel proud again about being Americans! This country is now broke and we need someone to turn it around and it is MITT!

it’s a straw poll. of “establishment” republicans.
in other words “country club republicans”
they don’t represent the tea party people or even regular republicans here in NH.

Ugggggggggh. If he gets the nomination, I’m voting Libertarian. Ron Paul all the way, baybee! :)

Ron Paul….Please,save your enthusiasm, he has about as much of chance as Newt or Mike H.
And if either of two aforementioned people end up on the ticket WE WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA.
WE NEED A NEW FACE,
CONGRESSMAN RYAN
Posted by: JeanPayl | Jan 22, 2011 7:28:41 PM <<< Are you nuts? You would rather vote for Obama than someone who isn't trying to bankrupt the country? Go ahead, waste your vote. Obama will be lucky to take 24% of the electorate in 2012.

I hope that the right doesn’t let the left-wing media decide who the nominee is again, like they did with Mr. Reach across the aisle McCain.

“Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.” ~ H. L. Mencken

What part of NO don’t the Republicans understand? No more of the McCain, Gulianni, Gingrich, or Huckabee types! Mike Pence, John Thune or even a Herman Cain who has a strong business background!

It is funny how the left is trying to squash Sarah Palin. Palin came to our home town for our yearly chamber dinner, we had to find the largest room available and sold over 6500 tickets to an event which usually sells 1000. We could have sold more is the facility was available. Palin is going to have so much grass roots voting, she will be a breath of fresh air from the same ole bunch on both sides.

In reality folks if you’re not voting for Ron Paul then the republicans deserve to lose again. Romney is not bad but he’s no Ron Paul.

Time to get back to work…the Sesame Street Show is almost over.

This is clearly a sham, how on earth could this NWO puppet be 5x more popular than Palin? It’s imossible and an insult to everyones intelligence. Let’s face it, we don’t get to vote for anyone we would like to run anymore.

Oops, fumble fingers.
candidate

Hey, how can he be any worse than that we have now? I’d vote for just about anyone other than Obama at this point..

Ron Paul supporters do more to malign and misrepresent Republicans like Romney than Liberals do. They’re generally extremists that support candidates like Ron Paul who don’t have any real viability in a general election.
Romney is the only candidate with the economic/business experience to dig American out of the hole that Bush started and Obama widened with all his might.
Hopefully Repubs have learned from, and repented of, their McShame support in 2008. We’ll see if they have opened their eyes enough to recognize the best candidate since Ronald Reagan. Of course, it took a Jimmy Carter to open America’s eyes then too.

I really enjoy reading all the love that Dr. Paul is getting in the comment section. He is the only potential candidate that will deliver on what he promises. As a famous rapper recently lamented: “It’s about Liberty right now, and they are trying to take ours away. Ron Paul is the only one that cares about the people.”
Dr Paul has the best track record, the soundest policies, and the best chance at restoring us back to our Constitutional heritage. Run Ron Run! Ron Paul 2012!

Same old crap. The left is pushing Romney hard because they know Obama beats him easy. It was the media that gave us McCain in the last election. When will conservatives stop listening to the media. It is time to stand up and elect the person we want despite what the media says. No one trust the media anyway.

I think the movie “idiocracy” is where we’re heading…

Yeah, look who the article said, voted. Insiders. I’m not buying this rigged poll. Ron Paul/Judge Napolitano is a ticket I could vote for!

PS: Romney doesn’t live in NH, never has, and he didn’t even win the Primary there in 2008. This straw poll win is substantial because none of the others can get or keep enough people behind them. In the 8 other states that have had GOP polls this year, Romney won 7. Unless all the non-Romney supporters decide on which candidate to back, this exact senario will play out across the country in the 2012 Primary!
KERRY: Paul Ryan is a great guy, but he’s way too young to be elected President in 2012.

Let’s see, Romney was VALEDICTORIAN at BYU when he graduated (having transferred from STANFORD to be w/ his High School sweetheart). He graduated from HARVARD with a LAW degree (JD) AND an MBA in the TOP percentile IN BOTH programs AT THE SAME TIME. He was Vice President of the company that hired him (from an internship while in college) IN 4 years. He started his own company and was a world reknowed TURN AROUND SPECIALIST for failing businesses, becoming very wealthy. Why would anyone want such a poorly qualified man as President, when we can have a “community organizer” (nee- communist agitator) who NEVER held a REAL, full-time job IN HIS LIFE?
Who would trust a guy like Romney that doesn’t lie, drink, smoke, dance, or swear??……..

How many times has Ron Paul won a straw poll beating Romney?
A LOT!!!
How much coverage does that get? Barely any at all.

Its starting to happen, a change in Washington spending. Its about time…Bush spent like a drunken sailor and Obama has spent like a coke head.

I will vote for Paul Ryan.He’s the real deal. He thinks and talks on his feet without a teleprompter! He has been chosen to respond to the State of the Union
speech. Paul has midwestern values because he represents Wisconsin. Go Paul!

i wouldn’t read to much into this. Only a “heavyweight”
wins the nod. Romney couldn’t beat McCain (and that should have been easy). Sarah is not going to run.
Odds are against her (unfortunately). Only 3 “heavyweights” that we have are Cheney, Jeb and Quayle. Cheney is not well and beyond his time…my prediction is the 2 other class horses jump in late in the race.

Sarah never went to NH. Her 7% is terric. Go Sarah!

Joe, Romney WAS beating/overtaking McCain until they came to Florida and the GOP machine here run by Crist & Co did him in and sided with McCain. If Romney had won Florida we would have President Romney today. You see how well Crist’s judgment proved out; right? Now Romney has quietly built/bought the machine. Seems like he’s just being smart to me instead of whining about getting outfoxed.

Sarah never went to NH – her result speaks for itself

I am not against Mitt Romney, I would vote for him but I REALLY hope the Paulistas can get our message out. Maybe Rand Paul would be a better choice? I LOVE Dr. Ron Paul but he’s getting a little long in the tooth. Rand is an excellent choice! :-)
As for Obama. I don’t “hate” Obama or “love” Palin. I think they’re both going to keep us at war for eternity… but I don’t hate or love them. This isn’t personal. It’s politics!

Romney 2012!! He will beat Obama because he has the real-life answers to the economic mess our country is in at the present time. Within 2 years in the White House President Romney will have us back on track.

Elect the guy that started Obama Care? No thanks…

You RINO’s are not screwing it up 2012! We will not be stuck with the same old R or D…

Ron Paul for president? That’s akin to electing Dr. Walter Bishop. No thanks!

This is ridiculously early. And this result has to be considered as unfairly tilted toward Romney who is from the neighboring state.
The true talent pool and big names have yet to fully emerge. Romney is a flip-flopper, Paul is fruitcake, Palin is merely effective as a cheerleader-sometimes, Gingrich is delusional. Pawlenty, Jindal, Thune, Barbour, Thompson, Giuliani and more have not emerged yet.
An interesting tidbit that seemed impossible 2 years ago is that the growing doubt about Obama’s birth location may actually put him out of office, although that seems remote and almost unthinkable. But it is now possible. Clear and convincing evidence of his birth elsewhere would immediately justify his removal from office. That would Constitutionally make John McCain president. Far-fetched? No. It is a logical consequence of Obama’s proven ineligibility. That is a twist on the next election.
I don’t know what McCain would do if he saw clear evidence that Obama was born abroad. McCain was born on American soil in the Panama Canal Zone and is indisputably qualified Constitutionally. I would like to see him become involved in ascertaining the truth about Obama.

This “First EVER Republican straw poll” sponsored BY abcnews? hurmphh! Makes one sit down and think about that!
Republican establishment (read-liberal Republicans)275 committee members voting. Well, that isn’t the rank and file. As for me, I will bust a gut to help a conservative candidate, but NO more RINOs thank you.

Love the way the media denegrates Ron Paul all the time. The guy is 100 percent right about everything wrong with government in this country. Romney’s 35 percent when only 65 percent voted is not a mandate. The way they treat Ron Paul supports I bet they were not allowed to vote. When the real campaigns starts you will see Ron Paul dominate the debates, again. Ron Paul is the real Tea Party, NOT the Neo-con hacks that glommed on and destroyed the party.

Romney will be an absolute SHOO-IN if he runs. Gingrich should be VP. Perfect ticket, and unbeatable, as the Dems have NOTHING in their arsenal. Just an intellectual void over there on the loony left.

I’m voting for liberty in 2012. I’m voting for Dr. Paul. ‘We, the people’ deserve it.

If Romney is elected President, it will be yet another case of “meet the new boss same as the old boss.” These bought and paid for shills of the elites make our Presidential elections a joke. I’ll be sitting the next one out. I’ve finally learned my lesson.

A straw man wins a straw poll.
Nobody wants the establishment.
Doesn’t he have a romneycare fiasco on his hands?
I would gladly vote for Obama a second term if this loser is the pick of the right.
And I despise Obama.

Romney is a terminator. Fairly convinced the guy really is a soulless robot in a suit. Didn’t these Republicans learn anything from Kerry’s loss in 2008? People won’t vote for someone who is a total stiff.
Herman Cain gets my vote

For gods sake, this is only a straw poll.
BTW….. Unfortunately, Paul Ryan is not
running. He has said so many times.
I am not thrilled with any of the picks. I do
like Herman Cain. Hopefully more candidates
will turn up or we are doomed!!

My money is on Donald Trump. One thing sure, he will know how to create jobs and stimulate the economy.

Romney for Potus
Allen West Veep
what a ticket that would be!!!

Romney, McCain, Newt, even Palin really have nothing to do with the tea party republicans ! There are no front runners from the tea party that has shown up yet.
Romney, Newt, Huckleberry have nothing to do with the Republican rebirth in the House. So those arrogant, self serving people should stop wasting money and not even thing about pursuing a run.
Palin has pretty much hijacked Tea party history. In reality it started with groups of leaderless people protesting taxes, corruption, and spending.
Newt has tried to hijack this movement as well by comparing it to his mid 90s take over of the house.
Newt is fat, slow and sluggish, hardly the person to re-vitalize the country!

So I guess this means Republicans are ok with Obamacare now since the Obamacare model is very similar to what Romney did while he was governor.
If Romney gets the nod I’m voting Obama simply because I KNOW WHAT Obama is. Romney lies to your face and does the opposite, just like all the other GOP elitists.
Is this REALLY the best you can do??? If so, just disband the GOP already. We the people have had enough lies.

“If Dr. Paul does not get the nomination, this will be 2008 all over again.”
If Paul is the nominee, I won’t even vote, even if Obama is the other guy. Paul is a whole ‘nother flavor of stupid, and we’ve got enough with the two already contending.

Yea, he’s not running but will in 2016

go ron paul end the fed

It’s time for the citizens to turn the GOP on it’s head. No they don’t get it, I’m not waiting for them to get it and grass roots has got it.
Screw NH, haven’t we seen enough of this stupidity in our countrys history. Let’s move forward without the GOP’s empty suits.

It’s quite amusing to watch the left begin to attack and froth at the mouth once a GOP candidate is mentioned.
Just a clue – Romney, Palin, Huckabee or any of those individuals will not be the next GOP primary. Keep wishing!

Yeah I won’t vote for Romney, I would pick a Constitution Party candidate or Libertarian. Or hell maybe the Tea Party will step in and wipe the floor with the Republicans. No old guard, I am done with them, I think this coming election we need to do the same as 2010. Replace all the old timers and put in new Tea Party candidates.

Paul Ryan won’t run, he has one of the most powerful positions in Congress right now and is capable of controlling the finances for the country. The man is a genius and more conservative than most anyone in congress. God I wish he would though.

Well, this is an ABC web page….soooo….probably loaded with progressives…..sooo…they’re going to tell the Republicans who they should nominate based on who they think is most beatable. They must be afraid of Romney because they’re already trashing him

Where does Romney stand on the illegals, & closing the border? Where does he stand on the New York Mosque & Sharia law in the US? I’m a Mormon and would like to vote for Romney, but after studying all our problems, I’ve decided to go with Ron Paul, and his son, Rand Paul, for vice=President. We
need those two pit-bills in Washington.

Herman Cain

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Was Mike Huckabee even on the ballot? In almost every poll, he is the leading candidate. Are ABC News and ” The Note ” Pushing the weakest candidate the Republicans could possibly run, Mit Romney? The only line in this article that is true is “This is not a scientific sample”.I can’t wait till Iowa.

Ron Paul getting 2nd place is the real story here. Romney has no chance with his RomneyCare shackled to him.

If Mitt or Newt end up being the R offering in 2012 I will for the first time in my life vote Dem instead of Rep. At that point in time i will have (like many i talk to) surmised that there is no fixing things without breaking them all the way…
2012 is the Repubs to lose ladies and gentlemen !!!

If Romney is the Nominee, I’m done with the Republican party. I will vote Libertarian.

Some great comments here and some pretty dumb ones too.
I loved the comment about Romney not having any substance…the smartest guy to every run for POTUS and some know-nothing thinks he has no substance.
Another good one was the comment about Romney being the father of Obamacare. Say what? States have to power to set up a health system anyway the citizens choose. The Feds have no such power and from what I understand, the Massachusetts program was not crammed down anyone’s throats.
Ron Paul will never be POTUS votes for him are wasted. Palin is not ready, nor are the other young guns. Give them time. Romney is seasoned and ready and once they understand his values, the tea party will embrace him all the more. He will be the next president

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012!!!!

Herman Cain is the only one that can beat Obama.

Ron Paul will use this as another retirement fund inflow.

Who cares?
He’s anti-Tea party, therefor he wont be getting a large chunk of the voting populations vote…
besides, the last thing we need right now is another party politics game player. We need an American loving constitutionalist in office.

Romney? Didn’t people indicate they didn’t want him last time around?

No to just about everyone mentioned.
Romney is McCain with a fuller head of dyed hair.
Palin is wonderful, but a Quayle.
I want to see a Governor or ex-Governor get it, someone with executive experience, not just a Senator.
So, for me, I think the best choice would be:
Texas Governor Rick Perry at the top of the ticket, and maybe Nikki Haley of South Carolina, or Jan Brewer of New Mexico, or Susanna Martinez of Arizona as the Veep.

When are the Republicans going to have a nominee thats not an alaskan white trasher end of timer gun nut, or a southern end of timer minister, or a magic underwear wearing shameless opportunist? These 3 losers lost once already, talk about history repeating itself. Do the Republicans actually believe that America is silly enough to vote for such a self serving religious fanatic?

Yeah, I hope Romney doesn’t run, and also the other certain usual suspects. But I know for sure who I’m voting for, when he decides to run… Herman Cain is a great conservative voice, and his background and his character are well defined. I would like like anyone who doesn’t know that much about Herman Cain to at least look him up and search for videos of him you’ll see how great he will be!!!

Sigh. I was hoping the people would get a clue after the last election.

So now we know who the republican candidate is the weakest and is perceived by the media as the easiest to destroy in the general election. ABC sponsored straw poll? The smartest people in the room really think we are idiots to buy this crap.

Why do the Republicans keep choosing proven losers? Romney cannot get elected. He is a Mormon and the Religious Christian Republicans will not support a Mormon. They have to pick a new guy. Someone more attractive than Obama. I am talking about Looks. The prettiest Presidential Candidate always wins

“Reducing the size of the federal government: 49 percent” and the vote doesn’t go to the guy that has been preaching this for 20 years? Watch any debate from 2007.
Well, we reap what we sow.

This Granite State Independent has one thing to say: NO Mitt Romney! There isn’t a single issue he hasn’t flip-flopped on. Who knows what he really believes and THAT’S what’s scary.
My husband, a Republican, and I have issued our own individual mandate: never, ever again will we hold our nose and vote for someone.

I’ll vote for Ron Paul. Romney? Just another revolving-door two-bit politician.

Paul Ryan if not prez then vice for sureout with the old in with the new or just give up like last time and put mccain up again he could beat him this time lol lol lol

You skipped right over Ron Paul,s second-place numbers to say that third-place Pawlenty’s results were impressive.

social liberals voting for a social liberal within the minority liberal Republican Party. what else is new?

Republicans, back to the rear of the Bus! Republicans, you got to give up the keys to the car cause you drove it into the Ground! You bring a knife to this fight and we bring a Gun! You don’t buy Government Health Insurance you go to jail! Our Death Panels decide how long you live! You buy a Government Motors car or else and this will be new but the same agenda if a Republican doesn’t get in! The tax Payers will again, along with the Unemployed be the Sheep led to the Slaughter!

If the economy is not rebounding stronger than it is now in late 2012, Romney will have enhanced chances because of his perceived “business success.” Of course, having a father whose contacts and name get you clients you can “advise” while they pile up favors owed in political establishments is hardly business success!
It’s like G W Bush living in a town where one out of every 16 people is an oil millionaire, yet running six consecutive companies into bankruptcy while taking insider loans, then getting Daddy to arrange for you to get a piece of the Texas Rangers for $700,000 (as if the owner needed it!) then selling it back for $7M (the taxpayer provided the difference in economic incentives for the Rangers) and being labeled a “successful businessman.”

It’s either Ron Paul or third party. T will no longer be part of this republican neo-con machine, even at the risk of Obama winning, I, like ALL my friends and family will NOT vote for a neo-con again.

Good ‘ol Boy wins straw poll.
Romney is a Rockefeller Republican (good ‘ol boy member of the Whig Party), owns a vacation home ‘in’ New Hampshire, and is from the Neighboring State, and has tons of money to spread around … what would you expect?
Better news is the Good ‘ol boy candidate sported by the outgoing Whig chairman, and Romney and others in the Republican Party lost to a Constitutionalist …

I’m in North Carolina and many of you don’t seem to get it, WE LOVE MITT!!!

NOOOOOOO! We certainly do NOT need another PROGRESSIVE Republican in the White House. Just because you know his name and it has an R behind it doesn’t mean he has a clue what it means to be a conservative!

RON PAUL / GARY JOHNSON 2012
Freedom is popular

The TEA PARTY will ride again and if the Candidate doesn’t TOW the Line with his promises and they become lies, like BO, they will be replaced. Congratulations, we now have a Black Conservative TEA Party and hopefully they can see fit to recognize a new Candidate running for the Republican party is Herman Kane!

Thus far I have refrained from voting for Ron Paul. Not any more. If he runs this time he’s got my vote. The GOP keeps trotting out the same old candidates because no viable republican candidate really wants to clean up the mess that Bush left, and which is still here. All of the republican candidates are weak.

NO WAY. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM. HE IS A NEW ENGLAND ELITIST AND THE INVENTOR OF OBAMA/ROMNEYCARE.

Courageous. Intelligent. Uncommon- common sense. Proven track record. No baggage. Principled. Loves his country-and will sacrifice for her. Can and does “think on his feet”, without a teleprompter (check out his recent visit to the National Press Club on CSPAN). Is “fresh” and stands in sharp contrast to his peers and friends. Can and will win in 2012. Get to know him, especially friends and supporters of other principled men such as Judd Gregg and Paul Ryan. Who, you ask?
South St. Paul, Minnesota native, Tim PPawlenty. He has my vote. May God bless and keep him in the arduous campaign ahead.

Huckabee, Palin and Rudy have zero chance of beating Obama! Romney and Allen West would be a dream ticket

We’ll see what happens at CPAC. I’m thinking Paul will have another strong showing.

Romney was the first one to start running in the last election too. Spent a lot of time in Iowa and is the favorite of the old time republicans.
May I ask why is he not helping his party by putting forth ideas to improve the economy and job growth? – his strong suit. He could also be helping himself by attacking what is wrong with the Health care law (Obama Care) as Huckabee (sp) is doing. That would blunt the criticism of his Mass. Health care bill.
Independents had better start registering as republicans so that they can have a say in the primaries in closed states or we will end up with a weak candidate.

Paul Ryan has already said he won’t run although he would be my number one choice. He gets it.

I agree with most of you. I threw away my vote last time by NOT voting for Dr. Paul. I won’t make that mistake again. You’d better run again Dr. P !!

Go figure a RINO doing well in New Hampshire… Let’s try Texas or Missouri where Americans live. There are no Republicans up there in either party. The so called news media will have orgasms over this for a few weeks. It’s called the McCain syndrome… Help elect a Republican that Obama can be. The safest way to pick a candidate is take the candidate that CNN Gallop, msnbc, ABC, CBS dispel and condemn and they will be the best for America. Remember Obama is their boy.

Are there any Constitutionalists left in the RINO Party? No, that’s an oxymoron isn’t it? Progressives like Romney,Huckleberry,Gingrich, etc. make me want to puke.
If Romney wants to win ,he needs a “Come to the Constitution moment”.Say openly that Romney care in MA. was a fundamental mistake,any bets on that? Romney is in the Bushie”Blue Blood” wing of the Progressive Republican Party.Take care of your own survival,these idiots will bankrupt us all

What good is a poll of New Hampshire GOP activists when democrats from Massachusetts can drive up to NH on primary day, tell the poll workers they plan on moving there in next 6 months, then vote in the Republican primary for Donald Duck?

Romney gets the nomination – Republicans are done. We are sick and tired of ALL elitest politicians that are RINO. And Romney is one of them (just ask Barbara Bush). O can win again if his handlers and the “elite” Republicans keep pushing for Romney.

The RINOS are no better than the Dems, wake up people! Romeny is not eligible on the same grounds Obama is not. Both are sons born of foreign nationals at the time of their births.
BOTH parties mean to dismantle constitutional law. BOTH parties operate on their construct that there is NO LONGER a sovereign USA and we are all “world citizens.” And they push “world citizens” for POSTUS in a deliberate assault on our nation and system.
ABC DO YOUR JOB! EXPOSE THE FRAUD!

I’ve seen comments like, Why isn’t he helping, Why isn’t he putting out ideas on economics, blah blah. You must live under a rock. Romney has been all over the country for over a year. He’s been the most active, involved, and largest financier on the grassroots level in the election.
Do you remember Steele just getting dumped on because the RNC didn’t raise enough money? How do you think all your tea party candidates got elected; your magic thoughts? It takes money and organization. The man has already done more for this country by helping to get Rubio in the Senate instead of Crist than any of you will ever do. Get off your sofas and join the man’s PAC. Who else do you know that has over 3/4′s of a million people donating right now!
You’re not seeing Romney bc you aren’t looking. Romney had an excellent 17 page proposal for HC that did not look like Mass. It was real reform and would stop the growth in HC costs. He was bashed because he used PowerPoint to explain it. It was brilliant, but people were too impatient to listen, learn, and make intelligent choices. Some of you are just making things wosse by attacking the man from the Right. You really think if Reagan were here he would tell you to attack Romney; NOW; at this point in history; with our economy in shambles? Are you people completely nuts?
Sure he’s a Mormon. What that means that is relevant is he’s been married, faithful, honest, and a good father/husband for about 40 years. It doesn’t matter if/where he tithes or prays – as long as he prays. His wife adores him and respects him. Find another man that will run for president who is really loved and respected by the person who knows him best and I’ll vote for that person. I will say Todd seems to respect Sarah, but he doesn’t hang on her every word waiting for her to same something brilliant like Romney’s wife does. We need someone with real experience. Romney is the only man running who could go in a room with the insurance companies, the medical industry/lobbyists, and others, and come out with the best deal. He’s a realistic deal maker and a turn-around expert. We need BOTH. Obamacare won’t be repealed without the industries that got perks going along for the ride, pharma and Medi-gap (AARP). American is democratic-corporatism. You can complain about it or you can win and try to reform it. Romney can win that game and he can reform that system.

Ah yeah, I remember last year when obamacare was jammed through congress and the tea party was smeared as racist. Mitt Romney defended his supporters….. oops, by not saying anything.
And then two weeks ago when conservatives were blamed for causing the shooting in Arizona. Mitt Romney gave a public statement…. er, no he didn’t.
Conservatives aren’t stupid. We know a fair-weather politician when we see one. Romney can stay in NH for all I care.

I have a challenge for all you Ron Paul supporters, who, by the way, I DO understand!
Please devote your energies to a serious candidate. Ron Paul will NEVER be President, ever. While you are willing to overlook his crackpot tendencies, the rest of the country will not. So, get over it.
We DO have some potential candidates who will satisfy you, but they need help to overcome the Republican “establishment” and the media desire for yet another sacrificial lamb to Obama.
Mitch Daniels, Herman Cain, and even Donald Trump would wipe the floor with BHO and could unite the country. Look into these people. Some of them even agree with Paul on some of his views!

As a conservative I like Mitt Romney but I’m still on the sidelines regarding some of his policies.
If he wins the Republcan nomination I hope he doesn’t choose Sarah Palin. I like her very much but thanks to the leftist liberal media clowns I think she has become unelectable in most peoples eyes. Michelle Bachmann would be a better choice.

Who cares about New Hampshire?
No one, except has-been political hacks that still don’t get it.

ABC says so —so it must be true?

`ROMMNEY , REALLY WHAT A SNOW JOB , BETTER TO BELEIVE IN THE FALSE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING. THIS GUYS A RINO . ABC YOUR A PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS NATION. RON PAUL WOULD COULD SHOULD BE THE MAN TO SAVE THE COUNTRY , IF LIKE THE OTHER GUYS SAID ITS NOT TO LATE ALREADY.
THE FISCAL DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES STARTED MANY YEARS AGO AND IS NEARLY COMPLETE. IF OUR MONEY SYSTEM COLLAPSES LIKE THEY HAVE PLANNED WE WILL BECOME LIKE OUR BROTHER THE BRITISH A SECOND RATE NATION SUBSERVIANT TO THE LIKES OF CHINA AND THE INFESTATION OF OUR SOCIETY BY ISLAM WILL MAKE THE DESTRUCTION COMPLETE

I am not calling Trump a “conservative”, but many of his views are libertarian. And, he certainly understands business and is disgusted with the way the rest of the world treats us, as well he should be.
I have not committed to Trump, but I do know he is a good guy who cares about people and is pro-business. You would also never see him bowing to tyrants!

Truthfully, it’s most of you hard-core conservatives that don’t get it. It’s time to WIN the election and remove Obama. Republicans will vote for whoever is the nominee, but the moderates will not, unless he’s “attractive”…yes, you heard me. If Obama was an unattractive person, he wouldn’t have been elected…PERIOD! People who don’t pay attention vote with their eyes, that’s why McCain never had a chance. If we trot out some non-telegenic person again, WE LOSE. In this visual-media driven age, the candidate must LOOK like a president in a Hollywood movie…I hate it too, but it’s the current reality.

I agree with Biff 1/22 5:26pm. Read Gov. Romney’s book ‘No Apology’, and you’ll see why he won the Straw Poll.

A Dev – The by all means choose Palin. If she wasn’t attractive I wouldn’t have to read about her all the time like I do. Listen up. I voted for Obama because on the left they had the really old guy that ran one lousy campaign, and an idiot. Those were my choices.

Curious that only 276 votes cast by the committee members in a state that prides itself on being 1st in the nation. Where were the other 150 voters? What could cause them not to vote at all?
This straw poll clearly means nothing despite Amy Walter’s attempts to boost its significance.

Romney & Paul Ryan would be a winning ticket. They actually understand economics, business and capitalism.
Something Obama apparently completely missed in his education as a community organizer.

if its not Ron Paul, the GOP is TRYING to get our awful president re-elected in 2012.

Romney is an extremely capable businessman and has an impressive presence as a public personna. That being said, he is a shameless panderer, who changes his positions and stories to appeal to the audience at hand. When running for governor for MA, he campaigned women’s right to choose, and gun control with respect to assault weapons. He presided over the MA health care legistlation, which most closely resemebles the national plan that was passed last year. As expected, he resigned the governorship to run for public office. In doing so, to appeal to a conservative audience, he flipped completely on abortion, told the NRA he was a “life-long hunter” (yeah…of squirrels). He even told the NAACP that he “walked with Martin Luther King” and then explained that he meant it in a figurative sense. The MA governship was just a stepping stone to his big aspiration, which is to be President. As capable as Romney is as a businessman, I find him a total fraud as a politician, showing no consistency or character. Conservatives will nominate him at their own peril.

Same old GOP nominees for presidency………. ! Don’t you get it ? You need some who can bring in the minority vote! But first you need to relate to minorities. All the GOP can relate to is big business, banks , health insurance companies, and the defense department!

The Republicans best hope is former Va. Governor George Allen. Mark this down my friends!

Why isn’t Ron Paul on top of this list?!

Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say, “Mitt Romney buys straw poll win?”

As about 85% of the voting public vote by name recognition only, the Republicans have to put up a candidate that is world known and that would be Donald Trump. He also has the business savvy and the guts to take on Obama. He would be tough enough to win.

Find it funny how folks on this forum state that Mormon’s are a cult. One definition of cult is “a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.” which would make any religion a cult. However, Mormon is not the name of the religion it is the name of a Book. The name is “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”. Those Christians who say that “Christians” will stay home they don’t understand the meaning of the Church. Look at the name. Jesus Christ is in the name so it is Christian. Now I am not a Mormon and I feel this way. Everyone has the right of Religion..
As for Romney… He has family values, he knows economics and can help lead as a republican this country out of recession that started with Clinton’s everyone should be able to buy a house. I agree with Clinton’s statement but he went about it wrong.
Romeny 2012. Does has a good ring to it. But to me it would depend on who is running mate is.

This means nothing. Its too early for a new face to have made an impression. New Hampshire also likes to be wooed so i imagine that candidates who have given the state extra attention this early have over polled.
Romney wont be the nominee. Republicans are still riding the Tea Party wave and will force a more conservative player to the front. The old GOP “next in line” tradition wont hold for this cycle.

Ignore the northeast Rino’s. Palin’s got the heartland of the country.
Palin-Bachmann 2012

Trump has a history of getting reckless and using bankruptcy. I can’t imagine thinking we want this in charge of the finances of our country as we sit in this mess at the moment brought on by a whole bunch of reckless.

Trump would be an American Berlusconi. Please get serious.

You need to check out Romney’s business background. He got rich by cutting the fat out of companies and making them profitable. I hope he can do that to the US. We are running out of time and money.

Anyone who wants Palin for president should have their IQ checked to make sure they are not COMPLETELY STUPID. She makes W look like a professor. And Michelle Bachman is even more stupid if that is humanly possible. The perfect DUMB AND DUMBER ticket for IDIOCRACY.
All the kids would have nightmares about Santa’s reindeers being snuffed.

Mitt Romney = loss
Palin = Huge loss
next……

hermain cain is the man

Romney is a smart, articulate, pro-capitaist leader – major improvement over Obama since he has actually built real businesses – BUT while he is a small c conservative leader in the sense of being interesting is stabilizing and maintaining the status quo in America, he is not a big C Conservative who wants to “conserve” the philosophy of classical liberalism America was founded on – small frugal limited government, free enterprise, low taxation and empowerment of the individual not the government to make the important decisions in his/her own life and the lives and values of their family. Ron Paul is a big C Conservative but it is not clear he is able to lead and he may end up as pathetically ineffective as Obama. I hope we will see a competition of many more Conservatives to get some real choice. This is not a selection I want made by party insiders who are small c conservatives but not big C Conservatives.

Mitt is the only one of the candidates that has the economic powerhouse background to get us back on track.
He’s also will slaughter Obama in open debate. No teleprompters allowed.

As a republican I hate Romney. The only way he won this poll by so much is if it was highly weighted with a lot of democrats or NH only has Rhinos.

It’s so amusing to see the mainstream media once again pushing their hand-picked corporate stooges. Mitt Romney, they RINO neocon, gave us Romney care and supports endless war and empire to enrich his buddies. He was caught cheating at the Florida strawpoll in 2007 -
Ron Paul is the champion of the Constitution, has never voted for a tax increase and was the most vocal opponent to the bailouts that Romney, McCain and Obama all supported wholeheartedly. More recently, Ron Paul’s legislation to audit the Federal Reserve exposed that the Fed gave trillions of dollars to foreign banks.
Seems like a pretty obvious choice to me. I stand with Ron Paul.

A Liberal national healthcare Republican
wins in the Liberal Northeast….What a Surprise!…and a Joke!

Please God no. No Romney

Sorry We need some one that is real for once. No more good ole boys club. There are only 5 I will accept if they run Sarah Palin,Michele Bachman, Marco Rubio,Gov Jindal of La, and Donald Trump THAT IS IT!

I can give a reason why each of those would lose but what difference does it make, Really? Most conservatives are watching some dumb sports or big truck, wretling match in their baseball caps, instead of getting some true facts. Rubio- a Latin (that’s why Crist in Fl. came in second, even though he became a total lib., but… no for the Cubano, sadly) Jindal- an Indian ( good bye- blue collar) Palin ( not too sharp, too many believe) Bachman (religious bias) Donald Trump (a Billionare-bought his way in) There’s a goofy reason by the unknowledgeable Baseball cappers that claim to be Republican, let alone scary that they think their TEAParty people?

I think ABC sucks!!!

Frankly, I thought they were sensoring me, but, truth is they have not and have allowed open communication throughout. I’m truly pleased being wrong on this issue.

Some of you may be better off with some good ole snake handling Christians with a mail order Christian Collar, but no!! Not a person from the Church Of Christ of latter Day Saints, the book of Mormon is a religiuos book, not a religion, look it up. But snakes, fiddles, and dancing seem more Christian or pardoning Murderers? I think I’m going to change parties or hope that most of these blogs have been by LIberals as a hoax, knowing the intelectual level of most ……

Paul Ryan is absolutely great, and would run circles around Obama in any debate. However, he has already decided that the demands of his young family preclude a presidential run right now. Wait a few years. Also, Romney has far more executive experience than Ryan. Romney is far more conservative than people imagine. He went along with MassCare because the Dem. legislature of that state had the ability to override any veto. Even so, the states are free to adopt any health care arrangement they want, whereas the federal constitution contains no grant of authority over personal health care to the national government. Romney understands that, and does not support a federal health care scheme.

Love most of these comments folks! You give me hope for our nation! NH is RHINO-ville! Sarah Palin and Ron Paul are the only possible candidates ready to serve up a can of
political “WHOOP-ASS! We don’t need another John McCain or Mitt Romney. We need a PATRIOT with FIRE IN THEIR BELLY!
Someone who will get in the White House and say “I’ve come here to chew bubble-gum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubble-gum! Take no prisoners! YEAH! God bless the USA!

Ron Paul is a must for the survival of the American Economy. Mitt Romney is just another Elite that will be no diffrent than Bush or even Obama. Please wake up people… America cannot take another four years of an economic downfall. Ron Paul 2012!!!

RomneyCare is not a federal mandate, it is not UnConstitutional, it does not set up a Federal Takeover of HC, it re-allocated money already being spent to provide access to HC through private providers. Good grief! How gullible to the meda some of you are who claim to be Conservatives.

Romney is an awkward phoney, at best. He’s not a Conservative Republican, but he’s a RINO.
During the 2008 election, Romney had to drop out of the race early, because he didn’t have strong support; he didn’t have enough incoming donations, so he had to rely primarily on his personal funds just to get by.
During the 2012 election, it won’t be any different for him.

If Romney is the GOP primary winner, Republicans lose my vote. I’ve decided to vote for Ron Paul, whether he runs or not. He’s the only one who seems to know what’s going on.

If Romney gets the nomination, I will be voting third party again the the Republicans will fall once again to Obama. Please understand establishment Repubs, we don’t want McCain, Romney, Huckabee or even neocon in disguise Palin. They are the same old neoconservative trash that drives people away. Repubs if you nominate Ron Paul, you will get all your normal drone (R) voters, lots of young votes and possibly even mine. It’s your choice whether you want to win or continue to ignore the only sensible statesman on stage.

Oh yah, Mitt Romney another plant by the democrats to pick who they think will likely be a loser like McCain. Then you got that joke Ron Paul. When you know what Herman Cain stands for like the FAIR TAX and the Constitution then you need to join us who support him. once you go to his website you’ll have a real reason to choose him for your 2012 run for the president.

I don’t care that Ron Paul is too old for two terms. By electing Ron Paul, we’d be making the strongest possible statement in support of the ideas he represents – a restoration of Constitutional government, pulling our troops out of these endless costly wars and cutting the Federal government down by abolishing entire departments. Electing a centrist like Romney is utterly futile; he’s the same as Obama.
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What about Romneycare? I hope he wins so he would have to defend Romneycare.

Romney is an ‘almost’ demo.
The left-wing hasn’t even demonized him. He could run on either ticket in the NE.
The demos will now start to tear him
up trying to get him nominated.

Romney thinks a mortgage deduction is a great deal vs what the FairTax will do. He needs to read up.

Romney is a joke, as is this Straw Poll! This is nothing more than a feeble attempt by the neocon-controlled New Hampshire G.O.P to put another puppet in the White House. The fact that Ron Paul cleaned Romney’s clock at last years CPAC (and will do so again this year) just doesn’t sit well with the neocon clowns who put this bogus “straw poll” together. No one except these puppet masters in New Hampshire wants Mitt Romney and his “magic underware”, or of his other twisted beliefs. Ron Paul may have come in second in this neocon poll, but that is quite a good showing when you realize that this poll is completely worthless. The 2011 CPAC is the only poll that matters, so don’t get too excited about Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul for President in 2012!

What a joke, this is what they say is most important to them? And they vote Romney? Ron Paul has been saying these things for decades people. Just check him out yourself. Mitt Romney is for war, he voted going in Iraq, he wants to go in Iran… That IS NOT reducing the size of fed. government, THAT IS same old same old. He’ll reduce the debt by doing what? Going into another war? I’m afraid most of the people don’t really know what trillion is.
Also, great way to stimulate the economy – more debt.. yea, you see, economy runs on high hopes and good looks, it has nothing to do with actually enabling new companies and old companies to grow without suffocating them with tax? Oh right yea, Romney will get the tax down too, by running perpetual warfare on rainbow power.
And finally, sure, we really do feel that we need to repeal healthcare, because it is simply not working, lets rather focus on people having money, and liberties to seek healthcare themselves with the money they got, and without the burden of being forced to help someone, but helping on their own because of general human nature, want to help those in need when you are prosperous. Or, Romney-care, it is very different this time you see, because he speaks very nice stories, and, did we mention he looks very good?
Reducing the size of the federal government: 49 percent
Reducing the size of federal debt/deficit 15 percent
Stimulating the economy to create jobs; 14 percent
Repealing health care: 7 percent