MD Straw Poll Results - Ron Paul Wins

MD GOP ^ | 09/05/2007 | MD GOP

[Hurricane Bruiser]

ANNAPOLIS— After eleven days of presidential straw poll ballots cast at the Maryland Republican Party’s State Fair booth, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) was announced last night as the winner.

The Maryland Republican Party’s first-ever presidential straw poll at the State Fair resulted in nearly 1,000 Marylanders casting a vote for their favorite Republican candidate for president.

[maica]

“The Maryland Republican Party’s booth at the State Fair was a huge success. By contrast, the Democrat Party’s booth was a ghost town. Where were the Democrats? They were at our booth signing our petitions opposing tax increases.”

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I can attest to that. The Dems booth was glaringly empty of visitors.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Right up there with that Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere!

[George W. Bush]

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Another RP straw poll win. Notice that the Paul-haters are out in force again.

[eboyer]

If he didn't pass along the earmarks in the first place, they would not be voted on at all. He is also for term limits yet has serves 11 terms. I've heard all your nonsense before. The bottom line is Dr. Paul is on my side for tax relief and limiting the scope of government. That you fight him so hard tells ne you aren't interested in those things.

[George W. Bush]

Ron Paul is good at winning straw polls. But he’d probably register in single digits against Hillary.

He's been polling 35%-40% against Hitlery in polls. Rasmussen, I think.

[A CA Guy]

Well, could be an issue on the infamous drug threads.

[dirtboy]

I also know that they money is already in the budget and if earmarks do not assign the funds, then some agency will.

Read up on Tom Coburn's earmark fights and get back to me. Paul just flaps his gums. Coburn actually does something about spending.

[trisham]

This thread doesn’t appear in Breaking News now. Did you remove it to take attention away from Paul?

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LOL!!!!!!!!!

[bcsco]

Paul felt that he might as well introduce his constituents own earmarks to bring some of the tax money back to them, since it would just have been wasted on other earmarked pork anyway. Ideally, in Paul's world, such bills should never come into existence at all. Thus, he votes against them and he would veto them all if he were president.

The old Kerry two-step. I voted for the earmark before I voted against it. And now, the guy's actually running for President. So what your saying is, vote for Ron Paul. He's voted for all these earmarks for his constituents, but once he becomes President, he'll veto every one.

A good campaign promise, that.

[dirtboy]

He's been polling 35%-40% against Hitlery in polls. Rasmussen, I think.

In other words, he polls BELOW Hillary's unfavorables. No small task. BWAHAHAHA!

[marsh_of_mists]

See what I mean about auto-pilot? The money was already going to be spent on pork. The only question was which pork is was going to be spent on. Earmarks are not about increasing or decreasing government waste, but are about how that waste is divied up.

[dirtboy]

The money was already going to be spent on pork.

So tell us, then, how Coburn manages to track down and kill earmarks instead of passing them along for insertion?

Earmarks are not about increasing or decreasing government waste, but are about how that waste is divied up.

Uh, yeah, sure. I've seen some novel rationalizations by the Paulites for Ron's hypocrisy on the issue, but this one takes the cake.

[trisham]

The only question was which pork is was going to be spent on. Earmarks are not about increasing or decreasing government waste, but are about how that waste is divied up.

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LOL!! I want to cast my vote right now for this thread as the funniest ever.

[bcsco]

I’m a libertarian leaning conservative - as most real conservatives are.

Issues such as immigration, and abortion are when I break hard egainst the libertarian mindset - and apparently Dr. Paul is in the same boat.

Fine. I appreciate your candor. And I'm not criticizing your opinions, although they differ from mine. But! You fall into the mindset of many here who try to promote Ron Paul for of his conservativism. Sorry, but he's not and he ain't gonna be. So, just be yourself. Identify yourself, and Ron Paul, to the best of your ability, and let the chips fall where they may.

Just don't be part of the 'boys' who want to insinuate Ron Paul into a truely conservative image. That's all I ask.

[eboyer]

I voted for the earmark before I voted against it. He votes against the bill that containt the earmarks. What you seem to be confused by is that he passes the requests for the spending to the apppropriations committe and once they finalize the bill - he votes no. Since when did conservatives have to use deception and lies to further an argument anyway?

[marsh_of_mists]

The very quote of mine you pasted states: it would just have been wasted on other earmarked pork anyway. If Paul had not sent in his earmarks the money would have been spent on other earmarks, because the money had already been slotted for spending on somebody's earmarked pork somewhere.

[maica]

It actually, for the record, was going to be a bridge to some of rare llat land in that part of Alaska; land that has an airport, and would have made the airport accessible much more than today when only a fair weather ferry can reach the island. If a dem had wanted that earmark, it would have sailed through.

[George W. Bush]

I just can’t figure out how liberal Republicans like Ghouliani lead in the polls among Republicans.

The answer is that he doesn't. It's just the libmedia inflating the leftwing mayor as Hitlery's best chance to get elected and to destroy the GOP's Reagan coalition.

They know perfectly well that we can never prove how dishonest these polls are until we have an election. And they always shrink the leads of the Dim (or a liberal Republican) against a conservative Republican gradually at the last minute to match up with the election result. They can "prove" that their little polls are accurate but that doesn't mean that they don't have a lot of time to make mischief with them.

Polls are a way for libmedia to affect the race directly, pretending that they are offering unbiased news. It's all a lie. This is not just true of RP. It's true of all conservative GOP candidates and how the libmedia operates against them.

[NYC GOP Chick]

He's been polling 35%-40% against Hitlery in polls.

So does an unnamed, generic, hypothetical candidate.

[marsh_of_mists]

So explain to me how earmarks work then and why I was so inadvertently witty.