politico.com - 2/26/2009
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The Republican Party is, understandably, extremely eager to put forward a new, new face, and so maybe it's no coincidence that of the three who have come to the fore post-election -- Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, and Bobby Jindal, none are white men.
But beyond them, the party's top rank is ...
cqpolitics.com - 3/1/2009
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If the Republican Party’s conservative wing had the
power to choose presidential nominees, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt...
Romney would be the hands-down choice. For the third straight year, activists attending the Conservative Political Action ...
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Conservative Activists Still Favor Romney
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 3/1/2009
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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro and Abby LivingstonFor the
third straight year, Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential...
preference straw poll with 20% of the vote. Bobby Jindal finished with 14%, just ahead of Ron Paul and Sarah Palin, who got 13% ...
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Romney wins CPAC poll again
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MITT ROMNEY THE FRONTRUNNER FOR 2012?…
Instapundit —
MITT ROMNEY THE FRONTRUNNER FOR 2012?
MITT WOULD'VE BEATEN OBAMA
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
HAD MITT GOTTEN THE NOMINATION, HE WOULD HAVE WON. OBAMA WAS BEHIND MCCAIN UNTIL THE FINANICLA MARKETS CRASHED. MITT WOULD HAVE SOARED AT THAT POINT, AND HIS ECONOMIC EXPERTIZE WOULD HAVE MEANT HE WOULD HAVE SHINED - AND FAR OUTSHINED OBAMA. I HOPE MITT WINS IT IN 2012, AND JINDAL BECOMES HIS VEEP. THEN JINDAL-CANTOR IN 2020.POLITICO THINKS MITT IS THE GOP FRONTRUNNER; (VIA MEMEORANDUM). NATCH: THE GOP ALWAYS SEEMS TO GIVE IT TO THE NEXT GUY IN LINE... (ER UM... MAYBE THAT MEANS PALIN!?!?)
Mitt Romney's 2009
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... Palin in the process). Ben Smith called him the clear front-runner for 2012. In March , he took a surprising stand and urged that mark-to-market ...
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