Huckabee Does Well in Iowa Straw Poll
CycloneConservatives.blogspot showed how the top three finished on Saturday’s Republican straw poll:
1. Mitt Romney, 4516 votes (31.5%)
2. Mike Huckabee, 2587 votes (18.1%)
3. Sam Brownback, 2192 votes (15.3%)
Mitt Romney spent a lot of time and a lot of money in Iowa. He felt he had to have a strong showing to propel him into the lead in his quest for his party’s presidential nomination.
However, Romney is a strawman. One definition of “strawman” is “a. . . person (who) . . . temporarily stands in for and is intended to be “knocked down” by something (someone) more substantial. . ." That says it all, doesn’t it? Romney is a typical East Coast liberal politician. I see him trying to wear conservative clothes that do not fit.
I look forward to a true substantial conservative emerging from the GOP candidates who could be a real alternative to all of the current Democrat candidates and to the Romney-Giuliani-McCain front runners. Former Governor Huckabee may be the one.
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Reuters reporting on the Iowa Straw poll outcome observed, "Huckabee, who spent much less than Romney in getting out his supporters, called Saturday "a great day" that puts his campaign in the first tier of candidates. "It wasn't just that we surprised people with a second showing," Huckabee said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "It's that we did it with so few resources. I mean, this really was feeding the 5,000 with two fish and five loaves.""
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday shrugged off his 10th-place finish in the Iowa straw poll this past weekend, calling such contests meaningless reports Breitbart.com. in actuality your candidacy, Senator McCain is just as meaningless.
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If the GOP primary election was being held tomorrow I would be voting for Governor Huckabee for President. However, he has a lot of work to do to overcome Romney's vast cash resources.
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