It’s already all over Free Republic and other wingnut hangouts, but the rest of us are just waking up to this: the alleged front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination have been rolled into one horrifying amalgamation:
Rudy McRomney.
And there’s a move afoot to stamp it out (apologies for the poor image quality — the stickers just emerged at the ongoing Wacko Conservative Political Action Conference, and this is the best pic I could find) [UPDATE: see below for a better pic]:
And in other winger news, this handsome fella was also seen striding around the halls at CPAC.
Very, very funny.
STRAW POLL UPDATE: There are two wingnutalicious straw polls going on simultaneously. One, at the aforementioned CPAC event, will be released tomorrow, and I’ll post results as soon as I see them. As noted below, Romney is the only candidate bussing people in and paying them to vote, so he’s working really hard to create a successful outcome.
The other is from Spartanburg, SC yesterday. Counting was been delayed because of bad weather, but the results so far (81 of 92 precincts) are very poor for the Mittster:
Rudy Giuliani: 158 (26%)
Duncan Hunter: 152 (25%)
John McCain: 116 (19%)
Sam Brownback: 83 (14%)
Mitt Romney: 80 (13%)
Mike Huckabee: 21 (3%)
Late results apparently are helping McCain pull even with Giuliani and Hunter. Given how much time Romney has spent in SC, these results strike me as disastrous for him — doubly so if he doesn’t do really well at CPAC.
GRAPHICS UPDATE: Here’s a better image of the Rudy McRomney sticker:
And this is really too wonderful for words — from this new website that is very promising indeed:
CPAC has been characterized as a Republican Spring Break by other conservatives of my acquaintence, and I think that’s accurate and friendly. The Young Turks running wild with beer – source of many dumb…uh….ORIGINAL PR stunts amongst College Republicns in the upcoming year.
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I was concerned about the lack of standing for Romney until I saw actual straw poll results, and realized that 38% voted for people who aren’t running (Allen, Rice, Frist)! I’m also not clear how McCain got 20% when he didn’t go – but he DID blow them off for David Letterman!
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[Hypocricy Alert! If Mitt had won with 22% instead of George Allen, I would be the first to cry victory]
I thought the CPAC straw poll isn’t supposed to be released until Saturday evening. What do you know that we don’t, PP?
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Anyway, Romney is apparently the only candidate to have bussed in and paid for “supporters” to vote in the straw poll. He’d better do well after all that effort.
There are 2 straw polls going on. In Spartanburg, SC, a straw poll went as follows:
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Rudy Giuliani: 158 (26%)
Duncan Hunter: 152 (25%)
John McCain: 116 (19%)
Sam Brownback: 83 (14%)
Mitt Romney: 80 (13%)
Mike Huckabee: 21 (3%)
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Bummer for Mittster, who has spent a lot of time in Spartanburg. I continue to be fascinated by Giuliani’s apparent popularity with people who just don’t strike me as his natural constituency.
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We’ll see tomorrow what happens at CPAC.
George Allen: 22%
John McCain: 20%
Rudy Giuliani: 12%
Condoleezza Rice: 10%
Bill Frist: 6%
Tom Tancredo: 5%
Mitt Romney: 5%
Newt Gingrich: 5%
Rick Santorum: 3%
George Pataki: 3%
Undecided: 4%
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any links?
http://www.redmassgroup.com
Those are from a year ago.
I kept wondering how many beers those boys had to vote for Allen and frist….
That’s the whole field, isn’t it? I think that social conservatives are probably starting to ask themselves, why not a Democrat? Any one of the Dem candidates stands a chance to pick up this block by taking a principled stand against gay marriage. I know I can’t stand voting for pro-war imperialist corporate globalizers just because they are the best hope to preserve traditional marriage.
all they have to do is convincingly explain why they “aren’t there” (Richardson) or “aren’t there yet” (Edwards), in a way that is logically convincing and doesn’t just sound like a hedge.
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I suggest they could say that same-sex couples should not have the right to conceive together and that all marriages should continue to have that right. They could say that and also say they still believe commited same-sex couples deserve equal benefits and protections, just not the right to conceive together.
Based on the razor-thin margins of the last two presidential elections and the stunning message that should have hit home after the 2006 mid-term, I’m amazed that it’s still about “energizing the base”; i.e, sucking up to the far right. I thought there were obvious enough signs that the “base” was becoming fractured over environmental issues, Iraq, stem-cells, etc.
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It’s hilarious to watch the pseudo-conservatives Romney, McCain, and Giuliani twist themselves into knots pursuing a voting bloc that’s anything but monolithic anymore, and will — IMHO — no longer put them over the top in an America that’s starting to see fundamentalist extremism — whether it’s the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Phyllis Schlafly, or Sam Brownback — as the problem. The fact that the wingnuts are already starting to smell these guys out as phonies is icing on the cake.
…CPAC–the self-described Conservative Political Action Committee–isn’t that. That’s false advertising. It’s the RPAC, the Republican Political Action Committee. There isn’t anything particularly conservative among the candidates in their poll.
Did you see the quote at the end of the NewsMax article where someone is quoted as saying It leaves me probably voting for somebody I don’t necessarily agree with just to block a Democrat from winning,” he said. “I can settle. I guess it’s a question of how much I have to settle for.
That’s just the opposite of what I just posted about social conservatives maybe choosing a Democrat. But as you say, that quote seems to imply its a partisan Repuplican PAC, not the CPAC, if that quote is representative. Why would anyone feel that way? It’s messed up.