Romney Wins CPAC Straw Poll

Looks like Mitt Romney topped the CPAC Straw Poll with Giuliani finishing in second.  McCain’s absence likely contributed heavily to his fifth place finish.
THE VOTE

Mitt Romney 21%
Rudy Giuliani 17%
Sam Brownback 15%
Newt Gingrich 14%
John McCain 12%

“Mitt won fiscal conservatives, Brownback won social conservatives, and Rudy won security conservatives. Romney was the only candidate to draw over […]

Clinton, Romney lead among insiders

[LA Times] Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney have emerged as the leading presidential favorites among party insiders, according to a new Los Angeles Times Poll, which found deep partisan divisions over the country’s direction and top issues in the 2008 campaign.
The survey showed former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina in second […]

Gilmore to reveal ‘false’ conservatives

[Washington Times] Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III will become the first Republican presidential contender to say publicly that the three top-ranked party candidates are phony conservatives.
Unlike the Democratic competition for the presidential nomination next year, where supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois already are […]

Giuliani to begin raising private funds for general election

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani has become the latest presidential candidate and the first in his party to announce plans to raise private funds for the 2008 general election, a spokeswoman tells CNN. But the former New York City mayor has left the door open to returning the money and accepting […]

Romney Critical of McCain, Giuliani

WASHINGTON - In a wide-ranging interview with CBN News, presidential candidate Mitt Romney called himself the conservative candidate in the race and made sharp distinctions between himself and the top two Republican contenders.
On Rudy Giuliani, Romney said, “He is pro-choice. He is pro-gay marriage and anti-gun. That’s a tough combination in a Republican primary.”
On John […]

Obama defends McCain’s comments

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee may be demanding an apology from Sen. John McCain about his comments Wednesday about U.S. troops, but one of his fellow presidential contenders on the Democratic side is defending the Arizona Republican.
“The one area I don’t think he can be questioned is his dedication to American troops,” said […]

McCain says U.S. lives ‘wasted’ in Iraq

WASHINGTON AP [Yahoo] - Republican presidential contender John McCain, a staunch backer of the Iraq  war but critic of how President Bush  has waged it, said U.S. lives had been “wasted” in the four-year-old conflict. Democrats demand the Arizona senator apologize for the comment as Sen. Barack Obama did when the Democratic White House hopeful […]

Giuliani Woos Religious Republicans, Stressing `Authenticity’

March 1 (Bloomberg) [Yahoo] — A picture on a classroom door at his West Chester, Pennsylvania, Christian academy may explain why school administrator David Douglass is considering voting for thrice-married, abortion- and gay-rights backer Rudy Giuliani for president.
The picture shows former President Bill Clinton’s face superimposed on the body of Senator Hillary Clinton , the […]