Posted on 02/28/2015 3:18:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll Saturday, his third victory in as many years.
This year he carried 26 percent of the vote. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz placed third, with 11.5 percent, while former Gov. Rick Perry came in eleventh, with 1.1 percent.
Both Paul and Cruz openly campaigned at the event. Cruz volunteers distributed custom-made buttons that said "Cruz Crew." Perry had a smaller get-out-the-vote operation at the conference.
The contest comes after three days of speeches from presidential contenders and noteworthy conservative activists. On Thursday, Cruz touted his battles within the GOP, while Perry attacked President Obama on foreign policy.
25.7 Sen. Rand Paul
21.4 Gov. Scott Walker
11.5 Sen. Ted Cruz
11.4 Dr. Ben Carson
8.3 Former Gov. Jeb Bush
4.3 Former Sen. Rick Santorum...
True...Paul's supporters don't care about politics...They care about pot...
Meh. The poll result are definitely compromised. Between Paul and Bush, who arguably shouldn’t even be included in a Conservative poll, make said poll’s results skewed. They bused in/brought in liberals and libertarians.
A) Rand Paul, like his dad, is always going to win a straw poll. That’s the kind of followers they have. How many delegates do they get? (B) Scott Walker is both the “flavor of the month” and in the news all the time. As far as I’m concerned, Ted Cruz winning 3rd place is really 2nd place if you factor out the Paulestinians who want legal weed and all that. As far as I know, the only CPAC straw poll that predicted a presidential win was in 1980 and they’ve been doing this since 1973, when Ted Cruz was 2 years old.
Ben Carson is not going to be the nominee. Write that down. And Sweater Vest had his shot.
The Paulbots stuff the ballot box so it really is Walker and Cruz. Sounds pretty strong.
Pray America is waking
the same Paul who is not even a conservative who has no problem with open borders, homosexual agenda, cross dressing, weaker military, and drugs.
No he won’t; he’s just like his father and there aren’t enough idiots around, to ever get him elected president.
having watched them on the stage acting like idiots then I can only come to the conclusion that they must have been on their drugs again.
Just a bunch of college druggie , pro homosexual pro cross dressing open borders, pro amnesty kids who think the world is about them and what they want.
You mean this one?
And then we got Giulianis......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hUtumtQpA
Both of those speeches are EXACTLY how the Republican party should talk! If they did, they would never lose another election but they do not.
Sarah, Cruz, Lee, is brilliant for me but I would take Walker so long as he stays on course for conservative social issues, unlike the liberal who won this CPAC
Ben Carson would make a great Surgeon General.
2000 George W. Bush 42% 2005 Rudy Giuliani -- 2006 George Allen 22% 2007 Mitt Romney 21% 2008 Mitt Romney 35% 2009 Mitt Romney 20% 2010 Ron Paul 31% 2011 Ron Paul 30% 2012 Mitt Romney 38% 2013 Rand Paul 25% 2014 Rand Paul 31% 2015 Rand Paul 26%
He’s wishy-washy on the 2nd Amendment. I’ll pass.
I like Walker. I might pick Ben Carson for VP as he can straighten out Obamacare.
Good as long as Jeb Bush wasn’t up there.
Except the Veep doesn’t have the ability to straighten out anything. Put Carson in the Cabinet.
Haha...Dr Carson beat jebboy...FWIW
Scott Walker came in 2d, showing that some conservatives value action over words. Too often the politician who talks conservative does not act conservative....Not that they all act leftist. Most of them just lack a spine or cajones when it comes to backing up their rhetoric.
You heard it here first: There will be no more black presidents or vice presidents for at least a generation. Mr. Obama has fouled that nest.
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