Huckabee Wins 'Values Voter' Straw Poll; Palin Places 4th
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Results are in from the 2012 presidential straw poll at this weekend's Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.
I was surprised that Sarah Palin placed fourth, after Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, but Palin snubbed the summit. Huckabee, Romney, and Pawlenty all spoke.
Newt Gingrich and Bobby Jindal, also low vote-getters, skipped the summit, too.
Full poll results:
- Mike Huckabee (170 votes, 28.48%)
- Mitt Romney (74 votes, 12.40%)
- Tim Pawlenty (73 votes, 12.23%)
- Sarah Palin (72 votes, 12.06%)
- Mike Pence (71 votes, 11.89%)
- Newt Gingrich (40 votes, 6.70%)
- Bobby Jindal (28 votes, 4.69%)
- Rick Santorum (15 votes, 2.51%)
- Ron Paul (13 votes, 2.18%)
- Undecided (31 votes, 5.19%)
Other (10 votes, 1.68%)
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WillieNY
Ah, the land of the free!
You have the right to free speech as long as you speak English.
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republican prez
Palin is out.Its obvious greed has caught up with her. She has
four goals she want to acomplish .(1) get the money from the book deal, (2) land a job on fox TV,(3)get the rest of the money from speaking engagements and (4)soak up the limelight as much as possible while doing the other three goals of hers.
The real republican president candidate has yet to show his face.
Palin Prolife increases welfare rolls--not "conservative"
When a pregnant, single, poor woman doesn't abort, she goes on welfare. We taxpayers provide her with welfare, ADC, food stamps, free county hospital health care & subsidized housing. Sometimes we help her child get tuition.** Now, the basic fact of "fiscal conservancy" is to cut back everything that burdens taxpayers. Conservatives are also against "big government." But it takes More Government to enforce church laws that ban abortion. How big does Big Brother have to be, until it's bigger than the government being in everybody's bedroom? Conservatives need to take another look at Palin. See what happens as Pro-Life preserves the pattern of "big families on welfare." Often, they're religiously and strictly Ban-Abortion. They stubbornly reject all efforts to make them behave responsibly. Why? Because they're practicing their faith. Let her continue to preach, but if you're fiscally conservative, do you want more poor, big families to be subsidized by taxpayers? I know I can't afford to support them, and never did. I'm just a GENUINELY fiscally-conservative Pro-Choice taxpayer.
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