CPAC Straw Poll Results 2012: Mitt Romney Wins Conservative Vote

[JoeChalupa]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/11/cpac-straw-poll-results-2012_n_1270466.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Mitt Romney won this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll.

Rick Santorum came in second, with Newt Gingrich in third place and Ron Paul in fourth. Here's a breakdown of the results for the presidential contenders:

Romney: 38%
Santorum: 31%
Gingrich: 15%
Paul: 12%

Romney addressed the crowd at CPAC on Friday.

"My path to conservatism came from my family, from my faith and from my life's work," the former Massachusetts governor said in his remarks. "Those aren't values that I just talk about. They're values I live every day."

HuffPost's Jon Ward reported on the message conveyed by Romney:

Romney defended his one term as governor of Massachusetts, saying he erased a large deficit to balance the budget, eliminated government agencies and applied the lessons of private enterprise to running the state government.
"I want to get my hands on Washington, DC," Romney said.

He detailed a laundry list of pledges to the crowd about social issues, saying that if elected president he would fight for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, that he would reinstate the Mexico City policy, that he would cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund -- which he said "supports China’s barbaric One Child Policy" -- and that he would cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.


Paul placed first in the CPAC straw poll in 2010 and 2011.

~~Santorum would have benefited by coming in a much tighter second but he can still ride the momentum but get ready for Willard to start hitting him hard.

[JoeChalupa]

Considering..if I am not mistaken...Paul has won it the past few years.

[Winehole23]

the last two CPACs

[elbamba]

Paul won the last two and oddly, Romney won the two before that.

[Winehole23]

"I want to get my hands on Washington, DC," Romney said.

He detailed a laundry list of pledges to the crowd about social issues, saying that if elected president he would fight for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman, that he would reinstate the Mexico City policy, that he would cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund -- which he said "supports China’s barbaric One Child Policy" -- and that he would cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.Sounds a lot like Santorum, tbh. If Romney has to veer too hard to the right to beat Santorum, who now leads the national polls, that could hurt him in the general election, but this is CPAC. This year their man actually has a chance.

[boutons_deux]

CPAC mad dogs invited pitbull bitch, one of them said:

"stuff she said was a little out of touch with reality" :lol :lol :lol

Palin’s CPAC keynote energizes conservative crowd, though some question her facts

Scott Carcetti, an attendee at the event who works for a radio show in Rhode Island, said many of Palin’s talking points “sound cute.” But when Palin began to speak about the “cesspool of corruption” of Washington politics and alluded to President Obama being ashamed of America, Carcetti didn’t buy it.

“Some of the stuff she said was a little out of touch with reality,” he said.

At another point in the speech, Palin compared America to a sinking ship and targeted “Candidate” Obama’s background as a community organizer.

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/texas-on-the-potomac/2012/02/palin%E2%80%99s-cpac-keynote-energizes-conservative-crowd-though-some-question-her-facts/

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Lying to each other in their lock-step echo chamber is what Repugs/conservatives do.

Repugs' strongest ability is their lying, telling lies to the themselves and their ignorant, deluded bubba base that reflects their sociopathic, anti-American, shithole ideology and ethics.

[boutons_deux]

Conservatism Thrives on Low Intelligence and Poor Information

we have been too polite to mention the Canadian study published last month in the journal Psychological Science, which revealed that people with conservative beliefs are likely to be of low intelligence. Paradoxically it was the Daily Mail that brought it to the attention of British readers last week. It feels crude, illiberal to point out that the other side is, on average, more stupid than our own. But this, the study suggests, is not unfounded generalisation but empirical fact.

It is by no means the first such paper. There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood. Open-mindedness, flexibility, trust in other people: all these require certain cognitive abilities. Understanding and accepting others – particularly "different" others – requires an enhanced capacity for abstract thinking.

But, drawing on a sample size of several thousand, correcting for both education and socioeconomic status, the new study looks embarrassingly robust. Importantly, it shows that prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence are drawn. Conservative ideology is the "critical pathway" from low intelligence to racism. Those with low cognitive abilities are attracted to "rightwing ideologies that promote coherence and order" and "emphasise the maintenance of the status quo". Even for someone not yet renowned for liberal reticence, this feels hard to write.

Yes, conservatism thrives on low intelligence and poor information. But the liberals in politics on both sides of the Atlantic continue to back off, yielding to the supremacy of the stupid. It's turkeys all the way down.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/154082

[CosmicCowboy]

Of course, Boutons is positive proof that people of low intelligence can be extremely liberal as well.

[boutons_deux]

Typical, expected mistake, more proof that conservatives really are stupid, that Boutons being vehemently anti-Repug/conservative must mean that he's a liberal.

[Winehole23]

if you're not a liberal, what are you?

[boutons_deux]

WhineWhore, The Great Boutons can't be bouton-holed, beyond the crystal clear, repeatedly demonstrated "vehemently anti-Repug/conservative".

[Winehole23]

not conservative, but not liberal either. are you an anti-system radical?

[boutons_deux]

anti-establishment?

absolutely, ever since the VN war proved forever They're Lying To Us.

[Winehole23]

proved forever?

[boutons_deux]

They're Guilty Of Lying To Us until proven otherwise. (ain't gonna happen, ever. It's the nature of system built on fraud and lying and self-serving)

[Winehole23]

nm

[Winehole23]

that's different. we already knew lazy nihilism was your default position.

[Winehole23]

Mitt Romney eked out a narrow win in Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week.

But the former Massachusetts governor's margin of victory over rival Ron Paul was so slim it all but guaranteed scrutiny of the party's decision not to count the results of caucuses scheduled later in February.


At a gathering in Portland, state Republican Chairman Charlie Webster announced Romney had won with 2,190 votes compared to 1,996 for Paul, the only other candidate to aggressively compete in the state. Rick Santorum received 989 votes and Newt Gingrich won 349, but neither actively campaigned there.



Webster said any caucus results that come in after Saturday wouldn't be counted no matter how close the vote turned out to be.http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=8540372

[Winehole23]

Caucuses in Washington County scheduled Saturday were postponed until February 18 because of a major snowstorm that blanketed the region. Earlier, party Executive Director Michael Quatrano said county officials were told the results would not count toward the total.same

[Winehole23]

In Washington County – where Ron Paul was incredibly strong – the caucus was delayed until next week just so the votes wouldn’t be reported by the national media today.

“Of course, their excuse for the delay was ‘snow.’



“That’s right. A prediction of 3-4 inches – that turned into nothing more than a dusting - was enough for a local GOP official to postpone the caucuses just so the results wouldn’t be reported tonight.



“This is MAINE we’re talking about. The GIRL SCOUTS had an event today in Washington County that wasn’t cancelled!
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120211005028/en/Ron-Paul-Campaign-Comments-Maine-Caucus-Results