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Romney Wins Florida

January 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Romney’s negative campaign ads against Gingrich worked and helped him win Florida.

The campaign has been ugly on both sides in the last week, but it was Romney that struck first against Gingrich going after him on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Gingrich struck back pointing out Romney’s involvements with Fannie and Freddie and Goldman Sachs. This week it was revealed that Goldman Sachs was Romney’s primary campaign contributor yet nothing seemed to stick. In the end, Romney was able to outspend everyone in the state – running a well placed media campaign.

Romney won voters making over $100,000 and those who describe themselves as moderate or liberal. Conservatives and those who associate themselves with the Tea Party overwhelmingly voted for Gingrich. Evangelicals split evenly between Gingrich and Romney. Pro-choice people voted for Romney while pro-lifers voted for Gingrich. Voters believed that Gingrich is the only true conservative candidate but think that Romney is the only one to beat Obama.

Here’s how it broke down:

Romney: 47%
Gingrich: 32%
Santorum: 13%
Paul: 7%

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Romney and Paul take NH

January 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Romney and Ron Paul were the clear winners in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night. Romney was first with 39% of the vote, Paul second with 23% of the vote. They both capitalized on the independent vote, with New Hampshire’s open primary laws.

Huntsman who campaigned hard, spending lots of time and money in NH came in third with 17% of the vote. Gingrich and Santorum tied for fourth place receiving 9% of the vote.

Perry, bringing up the rear, received less than 1% of the vote. He is looking forward to South Carolina, where he hopes to do well with Southern voters.

South Carolina primary will be held on January 21.

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Unto Death Do Us Part

April 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Former RPOF Chairman, Jim Greer’s political career may be over, but his loyalty to Crist runs deep. He supported him for Governor, and he supports him in his campaign for US Senate.

It is strange considering, he is losing support from the party at an alarming rate. Greer’s support is eerily similar to that of a spouse. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought they were married. Here is what he said:

“Charlie Crist has always put the people first before partisan politics and that has always upset those who put partisan politics before the people. If putting the people first once again requires him to run as an independent he should do it!’”

But Greer has his own problems. He and his personal assistant, Delmar Johnson are currently under investigation for misappropriation of party funds. The matter is being investigated by Attorney General Bill McCollum.

Politics sure does make strange bedfellows. Just don’t tell Crist’s wife.

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Crist’s Right Hand Fan

April 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment

Crist may be sweating bullets about the latest polls, however, you won’t see him sweat. What’s his secret? West Palm Beach CBS revealed today (4-13-10) that Gov. Charlie Crist travels everywhere with a fan to keep him cool during interviews.

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Country…not a campaign

August 12, 2009 by

I have spent some time this week going over the facts of the debate on health care, from both sides mind you.   I think we all can agree that there needs to be health care in this country available to everyone, it’s who is going to pay for it.  I have seen too much of a lack of knowledge in this 3 month debate since the President took on this agenda item.   If members of congress have agreed they have not read the entire bill we can assume that no one is completely versed in it’s body.   So here is the crossroad the party had to come to, how do we handle this issue.  Simple, do exactly what the other side doesn’t do. We have seen poll numbers go down since this has been introduced even the President is not shielded from.   We must do one thing are you ready?

We must hold as many forums on this issue as possible.   We must open our doors and let people into our houses to talk about it.  We must buy everyone at the local coffee shop coffee and sit down and talk about it.   You see there is one side in campaign mode still here.  The side that likes to have big events that last a few minutes (47 to be exact) and run away.   We need to be ready to stay as long as possible and answer every question find every voter, and agree what needs to be done.

It’s great that Jen Wilson, our Director organized probably the first town hall on health care even before congress made it home on break, and I am sad to say that we have not seen our local congressman and congresswomen step up to the challenge yet, with no signs of doing so.

This is NOT a campaign, this IS a Country

Max Stewart, President Seminole County Young Professional Republicans

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Why the GOP needs Marco

May 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment

This year the battle for the 2010 US Florida Senate Race is not only about rebuilding our party, it is finding someone who will lead us into a new era.

2009 is the time for rebuilding, a time to draw a line in the sand and separate the elephants from the RINOs.

For too long we have let Liberals define us, and ignored Conservatives. I say no more! No more should we be silent and watch on the sidelines as our team loses! No more should we consult the other team and let them pick our players! What we need to do is stand up, look our enemy in the eye and fight!

We need a smart, young charismatic individual who is not afraid to stand up for what he knows is right. We need a likable conservative guy that can relate to the younger generation of our party. We need a guy who is on his way up not out. We need a straight talking, Reagan walking Republican. We need someone who believes in our core principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility.

We need someone with a 100 ideas, who has the means to get them done. We need a listener. We need someone who doesn’t compromise on principles. We need a leader.

We need Marco Rubio.

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Gotta Have Faith

November 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment


Looks like things aren’t going well for Romney. Yesterday McCain’s mother got the ball rolling again, addressing the issue of Romney’s faith. Today, New Hampshire voters wouldn’t leave it alone. Voters want to know how this would play into his decision making process. It’s a valid question.

Which brings me back to what I said the other day. He’s got a hill to climb, especially in the Bible Belt. I wasn’t far off. In September according to a Pew Research Center poll in September, a quarter of all Republicans – including 36 percent of white evangelical Protestants – said they would be less likely to vote for a Mormon.

Which brings us back to the question…Who do conservatives vote for? They’re not voting for Romney. Guiliani has too many issues with the biggest being pro-choice. And McCain stills leaves a bad taste in many Republican mouths.

Looks like were back to Mike Huckabee or Duncan Hunter. I know the so-called front runners have ruled Huckabee out, but it looks like he’s picking up steam in Iowa. Only time and votes will tell.

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Here’s a Tip Hillary!

November 9, 2007 by Leave a Comment


So, Hillary didn’t tip the waitress, again.

Here’s a tip Hillary… that waitress was a democratic, working class, poor, single mother trying to raise two kids. Essentially, your consituent and you can’t find some change in your pocket to help support her and her family?

Oh.. that’s right, you think the government should take care of her. Well, I’ll let you in on a little secret.. YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT!

I wouldn’t count on that waitress giving you a tip in the form of a contribution, if you know what I mean.

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On the Campaign Trail…

November 6, 2006 by Leave a Comment

Today was another busy day on the campaign trail. This afternoon I received a call from Jessica Brien who asked me to come by the victory office to see Tom Lee – who was making a stop in Orlando. I arrived at the Victory Office about 12:30 and spent the rest of the day in the OC.

When I arrived, the place was jumping with people- making calls, delivering signs, and whatever else needed done around the office. After pizza and a soda I jumped right in to making Get Out The Vote Calls- while we were waiting for Lee to show up. 2 hours and several pages of calls later, he arrived.

We all took a break to greet him and talk about the campaign. Then it was back to work. I made several calls- then went with Jessica to pick up and deliver some signs to the Firefighters who promised to put them out for us tonight.

On the way back to the office we stopped to join our fellow sign wavers on the corner of Colonial and Lake Underhill. Sherry McInvale and John Quinones had several supporters out there already waving them on to victory.

We made it back to the office just in time to greet the Channel 9 news cameras- doing a story on the election. And by that time the place was really jumping. We had so many people all over the office making get out the vote calls- that we ran out of phones. Pretty good, huh?

While I was at the office, I spotted several other YRs including Delmar and Lovejoy. Delmar, who dropped off literally a ton of Crist signs- gave me a high 5 on the way out- and said, ” See you on the campaign trail….”

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I Would Walk 500 miles…

October 11, 2006 by Leave a Comment

The other day when I was out walking for Constantine, the lyrics to an old Proclaimers song popped into my head.

“but I would walk 500 miles
and I would walk 500 more
to be the man
who walked a thousand miles
to fall down at your door”

This campaign season, I’ve sure done a lot of walking. And with 27 days left in the campaign I’m well on my way to 500 miles.

Last week , I started walking nightly with a few people from the office. We walk from 5-7pm every night. On Friday, Carissa took time out of her busy schedule campaigning for Feeney and joined us on our walk. Then on Saturday morning, she stopped by the office to pick up brochures so she could coordinate her walk with Feeney. What a trooper!

On Saturday, I walked another large chunk- at least a couple of miles. And when it was over, I was literally exhausted- from the heat and all the exercise that all I could do was go home Saturday afternoon and crash until Sunday morning.

Yesterday, I was back out and raring to go. And I’m committed to being out every night until the election. Who knows? Maybe, I log 500 miles. And if I don’t it’ll be close enough.

See you on the campaign trail.

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