Thompson’s Lopsided Win in Ark. Straw Poll
6 August 2007This one is the biggest spreads in favor of Fred Thompson I’ve seen!
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Fred Thomson Wins NFRA Straw Poll
Giuliani and McCain Receive Resolutions of Strong Disapproval
The 2007 National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) Convention was held in St. Louis this weekend. The convention began on Friday and ended Sunday evening. Over 250 people attended the convention.
Several speakers provided workshops for the delegates and guests. The Convention board had to make several last minute adjustment when scheduled Republican presidential candidates could not attend. Representatives Duncan Hunter and Ron Paul could not attend when the US House was kept in session. Others had to redirect their efforts to IOWA when ABC announced they would interview candidates Sunday morning. John Cox who had not been invited to participate in the Iowa interviews spoke at the convention. Campaign representatives for Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Duncan Hunter also spoke on behalf of their candidates.
A “straw poll” was conducted by secret ballot:
Fred Thompson 33%
Mitt Romney 15%
Ron Paul 14%
Duncan Hunter 11%
Tom Tancredo 11%
John Cox 6%
Newt Gingrich 3%
Mike Huckabee 3%
Rudy Giuliani 2%
Sam Brownback 2%
In a separate session, convention delegates took action to determine if they would endorse a candidate. Rules required that the delegates cast their votes while in session for candidates that they wish to endorse. Only candidates receiving more than 15% of the delegates votes in the first round of voting may be considered for endorsement. After this first round of voting only two candidates received more than 15% of the delegates votes. Those candidates were Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter. For a candidate to be endorsed, it takes two-thirds of the delegates to agree with the endorsement. After seven more rounds, neither candidate met the two-thirds requirements. Therefore, even though Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter were considered for endorsement, neither of them received the NFRA’s endorsement at the convention.
In addition, delegates introduced resolutions to “censor”[sic] two “top-tier” Republican presidential candidates. The word “censor”[sic] was amended to “strong disapproval.” The delegates voted to express their “strong disapproval of Senator John McCain because of his actions in developing and promoting immigration reform that would have in essence granted amnesty to illegal aliens. Delegates also voted to expressed “strong disapproval” of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani because of his positions on marriage and civil unions for homosexuals, favoring gun control, and having positions conflicting with the pro-life platform of the Republican Party.
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on August 6th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
There is no way anyone not wielding the gun of the law can “censor”. Perhaps you meant “censure”?
on August 6th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
It wasn’t even a ‘censure’ in the end. More like a vote of no confidence.
on August 6th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
The word was used in the original source, but I just fixed it by adding a [sic].
on August 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Odd to see Ron Paul actually get listed near the top in a non-online poll = he’s still well below Fred though!!
on August 6th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
It is nice to see that Ron Paul is moving up in support. To me, he is the only candidate running that truly believes in abiding by the Constitution and the limited government ideals the Republican Party used to advocate.
on August 6th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I think Romney is trying to do a switch with Thompson’s previous career - he now tries to imitate Jack Bauer in his new trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_qZBAQqDk
on August 7th, 2007 at 1:35 am
This is outrageous. I thought the NFRA was supposed to be conservative. Ron Paul is CLEARLY the most conservative candidate running, and he is the only candidate who is taking the small government, conservative position on foreign policy, non-intervention. He should have gotten the NFRA’s endorsement hands down. He is a pure Constitutionalist.
If you must take the big government, Wilsonian position of interventionist foreign policy, then Tancredo is clearly more conservative than Hunter or Thompson. Is the NFRA just RINO light?
Support a real Constitutionalist, Ron Paul, and live up to your stated goal.
Fred Thompson is a neocon, globalist (CFR, AEI) who has a weak record on immigration, BTW. You should have been censuring him also instead of nearly endorsing him.