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Ron Paul and Rick Perry Chasing After Mitt Romney
Gallup Poll shows close battle nationally for GOP nomination and Obama in trouble
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Ron Paul | Credit: Flickr- Gage SkidmoreA poll taken across the nation by Gallup for USA Today shows a close battle for the Republican presidential nomination and that President Barack Obama remains vulnerable in his bid for a second term.
The poll, unveiled on Monday, reveals that former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts remains the front-runner in the contest for the Republican nomination. Romney, who ran for the Republican nomination in 2008, took 24 percent. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, who is expected to formally enter the race in the coming days, stood in second with 17 percent. Another favorite son of the Lone Star State -- U.S. Rep. Ron Paul -- is in third with 14 percent, while U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota took fourth with 13 percent.
Mitt Romney, Michele Bachman and Rick Perry | Credit: Gage Skidmore, FlickrThe poll found that Obama was in trouble as he looks to win a second term in 2012. Obama was upside down in the poll with a majority -- 51 percent -- thinking that he does not deserve to be re-elected. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed thought the president deserved four more years. Obama did better when matched against an unnamed Republican, though he remained under 50 percent. When matched against a generic Republican opponent, Obama topped the poll 49 percent to 45 percent.
Congress generated its lowest marks ever in the poll. Gallup has been asking since 1991 if most members of Congress deserve to be re-elected. In the most recent poll, only 24 percent thought so. Still, most members of Congress should be able to sleep at night as 56 percent of those surveyed thought that their own representatives deserved another term.
Gallup polled 1,319 Americans from Aug. 4-7. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 4 percent.
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Comments (19)
If he were stupid enough to run, his campaign would implode in less than a week. With the Gore Campaign Manager issue, the executive order forcing Guardacil injections on 6th graders, the TTC and the hundreds of acres of private land snatched through eminent domain,(etc.) I'd say Rick Perry would be wise to stay out of the water.
As far as Romney, well, he's laughable. Who supports Mitt Romney? (besides JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs?) I've yet to meet a person in real life that does. I've met plenty of people who support Ron Paul though. Weird, right? If Romney were actually a front-runner, you'd think you'd see some t-shirts, bumper stickers, or at least talk around the water cooler. Nope, nothing.
Mitt Romney is fiat paper, and Ron Paul is solid gold.
Romney the RINO, Perry the Bilderberger and Bachman just parrots Ron Paul.
Ron Paul 2012!!
"I pledge to veto any unbalanced budget and to balance the federal budget in the first year of my term. I will fight to reduce taxes and remove unconstitutional regulations so that businesses can hire, Americans can get back to work and our economy can truly recover.” –Ron Paul
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. -Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” - Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” - Sen. Barack (flip-flop) Obama, 2006
Ron Paul supporters started the Tea Party, the largest and most effective BIPARTISAN grass roots political movement by WE THE PEOPLE in the history of the USA. The core values of the Tea Party are supported by the VAST majority of voters in ALL political parties. They are the same values Ron Paul has promoted for over 30 years… Constitutionally Limited Government, Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutional Rights and Freedoms and Free Markets. Every other candidate that claims to be a TP candidate is only following RP's lead. The Tea Party IS the Ron Paul REVOLUTION!
Romney is just another big government, corporation financed, Constitution ignoring, neocon. Let’s not forget that Ron Paul had to tell Romney to “read the Constitution” in the 2008 debates, after Romney was asked a very basic Constitutional question on whether the president needs to consult Congress before going to war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJfK1XfY8w Romney’s money didn't get him nominated in 08 and it won't in 2012 because he doesn’t have a sound platform. No Constitution respecting American is going to forget that Obamacare is based on a Romney model or that Romney is anti-gun. Romney’s stances are not based on principles. He’ll say whatever it takes to get your vote, after that, he obeys his corporate masters regardless of the People or the Constitution. Can you even consider supporting someone who is: pro-choice, pro-life, pro-2nd-amendment, pro-gun-control, both for and against socialized medicine, for and against the bailouts, for and against mandates? -- if you don't like Romney’s position just wait an hour and it will change!
Perry is a another “tell em what they want to hear, get their vote and do what my corporate sponsors say” politician. Nothing could make this more clear than his oil company sponsors and his unjustified pro-oil-business positions while the Gulf of Mexico was being flooded with oil BECAUSE of an incompetent negligent oil company. Perry actually said the Gulf oil disaster was an act of God, rather than pointing out that it was completely preventable and 100% CAUSED by BP. No one should forget that Perry let an overwhelmingly popular bill in TX die, which would have reigned in the unconstitutional TSA searches / porn pictures and groping of travelers. Perry is a same old same old status quo politician. The LAST thing the USA needs is another president that so closely mirrors George Bush!
Let's not forget Mrs. Bachmann, she voted FOR the unconstitutional misnamed Patriot Act and she just voted to renew it again. She claims to be a Tea Party candidate but her voting record says she is a neocon war monger. You can’t support the Constitution and vote FOR the Patriot Act! She’s right on a few issues that she patterns after Ron Paul’s lead but she’s wrong on too much to make her the right choice.
Check out this clip about Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign, he was right then and he still is! The good news is, NOW MORE PEOPLE ARE LISTENING and the Republican party sees just how right Ron Paul is! Have you noticed how many 2012 candidates are taking Ron Paul's positions on the issues? This is what WE THE PEOPLE are looking for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG2PUZoukfA
The quickest way to get the Government back in line with the Constitution and the freedoms and rights it documents is by electing Ron Paul president! RON is REAL! You can count on him to tell the truth, abide by the Constitution and do what he says he will do. He has held the same positions for over 30 years, so we know we can count on him to continue.
Ron Paul has NEVER voted to raise taxes, NEVER voted for an unbalanced budget, NEVER voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership, NEVER taken a government paid junket, NEVER voted to increase the power of the executive branch. He voted AGAINST the so called Patriot Act. He voted AGAINST regulating the internet. He voted AGAINST the war in Iraq. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. HE RETURNS A PORTION OF HIS ANNUAL CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE BUDGET TO THE U.S. TREASURY EVERY YEAR. He does NOT support raising our debt and making us and our children slaves to our creditors. He will bring the troops home and end the undeclared and unconstitutional wars we are fighting across the globe. He will end unconstitutional, wasteful and unproductive Federal departments and return Constitutional authority to the States and the People, where it belongs.
We don’t have a revenue problem we have a spending problem and a Federal Government that acts far more like a kid with a credit card than responsible representatives of the People and the Constitution.
Wake up if you haven’t already! Stop worrying about what party a person belongs to and start looking at the person, their platform and their track record. If you’re not a Republican and you support Ron Paul, change your party long enough to help get this man elected. You can always change your party again later. The first step is getting Ron Paul nominated as the Republican candidate. Electing Ron Paul is the most important political decision most of us will make in our lifetime.
Ron Paul in 2012!
The TEA PARTY in Ames, Iowa and nationwide will change the disturbing route that America is going with overpopulation, crumbling infrastructure, unemployment and unrelenting immigration laws. Any state should not be a scapegoat, for the intentional or unconcerned inability, there failure of the U.S government, to ignore the people's wishes when in comes to cutting of public entitlements to foreign nationals.
E-Verify aids in rejecting illegal foreigners stealing jobs in the workplace and Secure Communities determines by fingerprint procedures, alerting ICE to criminals and re-entries after deportations. We can start the repatriation of foreigners using these methods, with sweeping audits by ICE. Businesses should face harsh criminal charges for hiring illegal aliens, with 6 figure fines and time in prison. Congress could simplifying the whole mess inherited over thirty years, to enact illegal entry as a--FELONY--and use Alabama's example that those without legal standing, within its State borders should also be convicted of a felony. American can no longer be passive on this out-of-control issue, as illegal immigration is causing near bankruptcy amongst the states. Currently, federal government and its states are 113 Billion dollars a year that is being extorted from taxpayers to cater to people from across the globe, as reported by The Federation of American Immigration Reform?
Incredulously open-border Democrats have turned a blind eye to aliens voting in all elections, especially that will sure to happen in 2012, when we must be on our guard as citizens. Read more about the increase in Voter Fraud across the 50 states. Charging persons with a felony would mean no more overcrowded schools, no free education for the children and the breakdown of our emergency hospitals.
With Washington under the legislators in the TEA PARTY there will be no hesitation, in enforcing the E-Verify or Secure Communities--that Homeland Security has notified they are rescinding the later law. The Tea Party will reject any form of administration amnesty, which is a link CHAIN MIGRATION. The TEA PARTY has become a massive grassroots movement of millions of concurring Americans from all racial, religious backgrounds and political parties. The TEA PARTY members share the nucleus principles of restricted government, individual freedoms, personal responsibility, fair free markets and above all else returning power to the States and the people. The TEA PARTY is about reforming all political parties and government, so the key principles of our Constitution, once again is the foundation of which this nation stands.
Hopefully the Iowa straw-poll places Rep. Michele Bachmann, the TEA PARTY chairman as a strong presidential contender. With her strong Conservative convictions, she has refused to become part of the "old boys club" in either party. In fact the lady didn't vote in lifting the debt ceiling by another $2.5 Trillion dollars. 2012 will be a “Make or break” year for America in doing the same thing and repeating the same mistakes. Bachmann backbone will not bend to the greed in Washington, and will not be intimidated by corporate lobbyists. It wasn’t President Obama or the Majority of Democrats, which caused the massive problem that this country, must now face. But Sen. Harry Reid, who cut off any chance of debate in the discretionary spending when the Senate voted to “table,” a House Republican proposal to “not give the time of day” to “Cut, Cap and Balance”. Reid of Nevada has one of the largest populations of illegal household, next to the Sanctuary state of California.
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It is hard to believe that the tea party movement would chose or support a leader that has been a major part of the problem - a very proud former IRS agent. She enjoyed her job of auditing the small businesses and middle class people - assuming you were guilty until proven innocent. She enjoyed watching people melt in her presence. That is a hard mindset adjustment to make for anyone. Now she selectively wants to go by the Constitution - which states we are INNOCENT until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Her vote for the extension of the Patriot act, including the Lone Wolf and no definition of the extent the law enforcement could delve into someone's records WITHOUT a warrant.
Sorry, but Bachmann saw the tea party movement as a way to become more powerful, and you and too many others still cannot see the wolf in sheep's clothing. She still enjoys the power she has over the "little people".
Romney is just a slightly more interesting Pawlenty. Romney has no real policy differences from Obama; at least Paul does, and that is what the country needs right now, a new direction.
Keep spreading the message!
The only logical choice is the father of the tea party, the defender of the Constitution, life and liberty and the only candidate who does not flip flop on issues, the candidate who wants our troops home now, wants people to beable to make their own decisions regarding health care and saving for retirement, the only candidate who for years has predicted exactly what is happening to our economy and the dollar, RON PAUL 2012
I agree with everything you stated, but your grammar and spelling are absolutely atrocious! Please avoid speaking on behalf of Dr. Paul. You are only helping to discredit him. When people say that the only folks who support Ron Paul are uneducated, knuckle-dragging hicks, you (and your terrible spelling and lack of knowledge of the English language) only give them more ammunition for that argument. Your support is appreciated; your open display of ignorance is not. You may want to find a good English tutor.