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| Tea party: Romney most electable; Paul best president Posted: 26 Jan 2012 05:58 PM PST
FORT WALTON BEACH — Mitt Romney is a close first choice to be the Republican presidential nominee for some 75 Fort Walton Beach Tea Party members. They also said Romney was the most electable candidate, despite their belief that U.S. Rep. Ron Paul would be the best president, according to a recent straw poll. "This is good news," said former Florida House Speaker Allan Bense, who drove from his home in Panama City to speak on Romney's behalf Tuesday night at American Legion Post 235 in Fort Walton Beach. "Mitt Romney won. He's not supposed to win," Bense said. Indeed, Romney would hardly seem the GOP choice in conservative Okaloosa County. Newt Gingrich, the darling of conservative voters at the moment, had handily won straw polls conducted by other county tea party organizations, said Fort Walton Beach member Tom Nelson. Nelson attributed Tuesday's interesting developments to the infiltration by about 15 libertarian Ron Paul supporters. "When you advertise things like this, the libertarians come out," Nelson said. "I expected them to go to Romney instead of anybody else. They influenced Romney's numbers because they see him as most electable." To read more, visit: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/most-46979-tea-party.html |
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