Department of Sour Grapes: Santorum Suggests Romney Rigged CPAC Poll
File this in your Department of Sour Grapes file. Former Sen. Rick Santorum is suggesting that former Massaschusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may have rigged it so he won the CPAC straw poll vote:
Rick Santorum suggested on Sunday that Mitt Romney’s campaign may have rigged a straw poll of conservative activists by paying the entrance fee for supporters.
Romney beat Santorum by 7 points Saturday in a straw poll of almost 3,500 attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Santorum pointed out that Ron Paul had won the poll in both of the past two years “because he just trucks in a lot of people pays for their ticket, they come in and vote and then leave.”
“I don’t try to rig straw polls,” Santorum said on CNN’s State of the Union.
Paul actually came in last on Saturday, having declined to address the conference or to activate his base for the straw poll. But Santorum said that wasn’t the case with Romney.
“You have to talk to the Romney campaign and how many tickets they bought,” Santorum said. “We’ve heard all sorts of things.”
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3 Responses to “Department of Sour Grapes: Santorum Suggests Romney Rigged CPAC Poll”
Joe, even to this day there are those that still do not believe Bush won Florida and was illegally placed in the position. And as long as Obama is in office, the birthers will continue to insist he was not born in the USA. (Website showing Florida win for “W”)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html
But a comment concerning the requirement that one has to be born in America to be president and a comment concerning the payment for registration at CPAC.
What is more important these days? An individual that may be born in a foreign country, comes to America as a very young child, attends schools in America, attends college in America, becomes a citizen legally through the citizenship process, and is American for all purposes other than President. Then take a person that is born in America, moves to a foreign country for much of their lives, moves back after they have been educated and their social values formed by foreign customs and then runs for President. Who really is more American?
As for the CPAC payment, since this is the first time anyones vote has been bought for any reason, shame on them!
so u r suggesting that paying for votes is a good thing??
poll tax here we come!
“Joe, even to this day there are those that still do not believe Bush won Florida and was illegally placed in the position.”
Sure, and to this day there are still those who think the way FL shook out was just peachy! (including having our glorious and esteemed USSC weighing in) Guess ya can’t please everyone eh? The real problem with GWB was his uber-incompetence, his subservience to his VP and cabinet, and of course (before any of that) the existence of that portion of the electorate clueless enough to vote for him in the first place.
Santorum complaining about Romney? Just a continuation of the clown show.