Mitt Romney Sweeps CPAC Straw Poll Like the Winning Machine He Is

Rom-ney! Rom-ney! Rom-ney!

King of the world CPAC 2009!

In one of the opening skirmishes  in the long – and almost certainly bloody — GOP battle for the 2012 nomination, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the annual Conservative Political Action Convention straw poll Saturday.

Well, he didn't just win. Your Romneybot took a commanding 20 percent of the vote, leaving rivals Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin and Ron Paul behind by six or seven points each. And Mike Huckabee, for all his folksy humanish charm, only managed to nab seven percent of the vote. Better order those Romney lawn signs now…

Romney claimed the [CPAC straw poll] mantle the last two years, but foundered in his presidential bid. In fact he used his 2008 CPAC speech to drop out of the race even as he edged out eventual GOP nominee John McCain. And the 2006 winner was then-Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen, who took 22 percent of the votes cast. Allen was defeated by Democrat Jim Webb that November and has since largely disappeared from the political scene.

Just see if you can get 'Romney' printed in a font that spells 'Palin' when you turn it sideways.