[fatnotlazy]

CPAC: The first C stands for Communist.

[rovenstinez]

Moroni the angel applauds.

[Jonty30]

Establishment. Means nothing.

We already knew the establishment was in for Romney.

[svcw]

Straw polls are worth as much as the paper they are written on.
Romney is known for packing in his supporters.
Must mean the new spelling of liberal is Cliberal.
Means nothing like all straw polls.

[q_an_a]

I think that CPAC has a few problems, not the least of which is that it is libertarians that win more votes year after year...not conversvatives. I like some of the blogs that won TEA Party awards, but more than one is not conservative, just anti-DemocRAT.

[butterdezillion]

How does this jive with the cool reception he was said to have received?

Ya know what? At this point I think all the numbers might just be coming from somebody’s rear end. The poll numbers, the vote numbers, everything. What would stop somebody from just making this stuff up, like Manuel Zelaya did in Honduras? None of it makes sense.

[Rudder]

Posted

[Vince Ferrer]

Still, 58% voted against him. We’re still splitting the conservative vote.

[C210N]

No Surprise - the voters listened intently to the prior-day speeches, and voted for the most conservative. It was an easy choice, given that one candidate in particular was saying severely so.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

How many delegates does CPAC have?

(This is a rhetorical question.)

[omega4179]

The headline should be 58% of CPAC said anyone but Romney!!

[pyx]

From the article;

Romney stressed his conservative record in a speech at CPAC on Friday, describing his tenure in Massachusetts as "severely conservative."

In the CPAC speech, Myth Romney used the word "conservative", 25 times in 26 minutes.

Romney's overusage was as bad as John F#%kin' Kerry reminding people over and over to the point of nauseating them that he was in Vietnam.

[Tennessee Nana]

helps...burnish his conservative image.
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when you need help or have to have help and have to “burnish” an image...

that means you have to convince people to IMAGINE ya got the goods...

My imagination doesnt run on Botox and Grecian Formula...

[lightman]

They must be nuckin' futs!

[txrefugee]

Well, then CPAC must not be conservative. They need to change their moniker.

[TexasFreeper2009]

this is good news, CPAC hasn’t picked the winner since 2000

lol

Plus Romney has won it many times before along with Paul, which tells you just about everything you need to know about it.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

ANY organization that recognizes, supports and panders to a BOTTOM-FEEDING, Islamic-Jihadist-Terrorists defender/facilitator, SCUMBAG such as Grover Norquist (in spite of the voluminous info re: this TRAITOROUS, snake in the grass) can hardly be considered "Conservative" and a reason I would never attend a CPAC conference.

[RIghtwardHo]

Yeah, and NYT is reporting he bussed in a bunch of students to vote for him.

[JediJones]

Looks like their poll fell off the cliff in the 2000s. And they only picked the winner 3 out of 18 times...17% success rate.

Year CPAC Straw Poll Winner
1976 Ronald Reagan[39][40]
1980 Ronald Reagan
1984 Ronald Reagan
1986 Jack Kemp[41][42]
1987 Jack Kemp[43]
1993 Jack Kemp[44]
1995 Phil Gramm[45]
1998 Steve Forbes[46]
1999 Gary Bauer[47]
2000 George W. Bush[48]
2005 Rudy Giuliani[49]
2006 George Allen
2007 Mitt Romney
2008 Mitt Romney
2009 Mitt Romney
2010 Ron Paul
2011 Ron Paul
2012 Mitt Romney

[SharpRightTurn]

I’m severely chagrined.