Posted on 10/14/2007 4:35:45 AM PDT by Calpernia
BREAKING NEWS! Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has won the inaugural Conservative Leadership Conference straw poll. Despite not appearing at the conference, Paul won convincingly with 33% of the vote. Mitt Romney, who addressed the conference in a town hall meeting and during a general session, finished second with 16%. Duncan Hunter, who also delivered a major address during the three-day event, finished third at 15%.
The Full Results:
Ron Paul 32.80%
Mitt Romney 16.13%
Duncan Hunter 14.52%
Undecided 11.29%
Fred Thompson 7.53%
Rudy Giuliani 6.45%
Alan Keyes 3.76%
Mike Huckabee 3.23%
Tom Tancredo 1.61%
John McCain 1.08%
Other 1.08%
Sam Brownback 0.54%
Thank you SierraScrapper!
Ping!
Wow! Is Congressman Paul already looking at drapes for the oval office? This is such big news! Wonder why the: Gallup, Rasmussen, Newsweek, Ispos, Fox, ABC, NBC/Wall Street Journal, Zogby, ARG, Insider Advantage, Battleground, Quinnipiac, Mason-Dixon, Des Moines Register, LA Times/Bloomberg, SurveyUSA, Strategic Vision, PPIC, et al keep missing this story? Oh, yeah, all Ron Paul supporters only use cell phones! That’s it!!
Nice job trying to explain away Ron Paul's win at this conference. But, given that Romney and Hunter both attended this conference, and Ron Paul did not but got more votes than the two of them combined, I can draw only two conclusions:
(1) Support for Ron Paul is a lot deeper than most are willing to admit; or
(2) Romney and Hunter's campaigns made a serious error by agreeing to speak at an event that was pre-rigged for Ron Paul. Well, on second thought - this is a huge boost for Hunter. But Romney's stock definitely drops on this news. He avoided Farah and Schlafly at the value voters debate, he avoided Tavis Smiley at the black-oriented debate, but he just stepped on a land mine this time.
I have to say, any conference of Republicans where Ron Paul could win a straw poll with over 30%, is NOT a very representative conference, nor could it be particularly conservative, despite its name.
Because the makeup of this group is clearly odd, I can’t give much significance to the rest of the order either.
Sorry:
I worked for President Ronald Reagan, and I abhor the fact that Congressman Paul’s campaign would even refer to him, much less compare Mr. Paul to him! President Reagan was no isolationist or defeatist, no matter how you spin it. Shame on all of you!
Define isolationist. Define defeatist. And there’s absolutely no shame in supporting a candidate on fire for liberty.
Nation-building is going nowhere very fast. Besides, we need to defend our own borders. We could do both, but other than Tancredo and Hunter, I don’t see any other candidates taking border security seriously.
I think SierraScrapper is pretty familiar with the area she lives in.
Jason Wright and Stephen Fountain run PoliticalDerby.com, where this story is published from. And Jason Wright verified the straw poll results.
So, you can surf over to PoliticalDerby.com to get a feel for the site, story, conference and get questions answered.
If 2 votes made up close to 2 percent of the vote, then not many people participated in the poll.
LOL!!
It’s OK to cut and run from the American borders, though. No problem... We’ve definitely got a set of priorities here. They’re all backwards, but that’s no worry: the globalist machine must be kept stoked and rolling forward.
Ooooohhh...”the globalist machine”...Ron Paul will save us from that!
Thank God for Ron Paul!
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You’ve got it. Right on.
Can’t chew bubble gum and walk at the same time? I’ll clear a path when seeing myopic people like you coming. A little history reminder....we were facing off the comminists on SEVERAL fronts around the globe in the sixties, were knee deep in Viet Nam and just somehow managed to go from monkeys in bottle rockets to landing a man on the moon, all at the same time!
The border issue is VERY easy to solve if only we had a government (state and local) with the intestinal fortitude to tackle it. Globalization is not the issue, its vote buying.
Jimmy Carter?
And it is about vote buying and globalism. Our political system is out of control, and it's time we took it back.
Some very conservative thought on the larger issues of our day by Ludwig von Mises:
These are the ideas that drive Ron Paul. No other candidate is discussing the dire need we face of returning to sound banking and a principled foreign policy. We simply cannot afford to continue printing money as our dollar weakens to new depths, and foreign creditors nip at our heels.
- There was no reason whatever to abandon the principle of free enterprise in the field of banking.
- It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
- What is needed to prevent any further credit expansion is to place the banking business under the general rules of commercial and civil laws compelling every individual and firm to fulfill all obligations in full compliance with the terms of the contract.
- Imprudent granting of credit is bound to prove just as ruinous to a bank as to any other merchant.
Duncan Hunter talks about the Chinese threat. But he's not discussing the monetary component of China's meteoric rise. We need a sound fiscal policy to compete economically with the likes of China.
Look, I'm all for controlling our borders and I detest the way our government is approaching the illegal immigration problem. And it IS a big problem.
That doesn't make cutting and running from a war that we are winning OK, though. This war has had a lot to do with the fact that the US has not been attacked since 9/11. (Which was a coordinated effort by al Qaeda, not by some independent "thugs," by the way.)
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