The Competent Conservative

Call Me GOP conducted a 3 week “Sweet 16″ tournament of potential Republican leaders to find out which one should speak for the party.  The tournament winner is Mitt Romney. After three weeks and more than 4,000 votes, our tournament is finally over.  No surprise here: you’ve decided that Mitt Romney should speak for the [...]

Rasmussen 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Survey Mitt Romney 25% Sarah Palin 24% Mike Huckabee 22% Newt Gingrich 14% Haley Barbour 1% Tim Pawlenty 1% Some other candidate 6% Regardless of who you would vote for, which candidate would you least like to see win the Republican nomination in 2012? Sarah Palin 21% Haley Barbour 21% [...]

Via The Corner on Fox news’ ‘Special Report’ last night Krauthammer said “Romney really is the frontrunner.” Krauthammer’s Take [NRO Staff] From last night’s “All-Stars.” On prospective GOP candidates for 2012: Romney really is the frontrunner. He has done himself well. He is a grown-up. He knows economics. He’s trusted on that. There is also [...]

(Pew research).Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has seen his favorability ratings improve and now enjoys a positive balance of opinion among the general public: 40% rate him favorably, 28% unfavorably. This marks a reversal of opinion from February 2008, during the latter stages of the GOP primary campaign, when just 30% viewed him favorably and [...]