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Ron Paul Snaps Up 800 Tickets for Southern Republican Leadership Conference
Washington Independent ^ | Friday March 5, 2010

Posted on 03/05/2010 3:21:20 PM PST by Bigtigermike

In the wake of his somewhat surprising — and very soft-peddled — victory in the CPAC straw poll, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is gearing up for a big showing at the next GOP cattle call. Paul’s Campaign for Liberty has purchased 800 tickets for the event, held next month in New Orleans, at a total cost of $92,000.

If 800 Paul fans show up, would it be enough to win the event’s straw poll? Well, in 2006, Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) won the straw poll with a 36.9 percent plurality — of only 1,427 ballots.

An email with some info about the big buy, after the jump:

We will have discounted tickets (so don’t buy the tickets through the link above!) which you can purchase within the next week! I am personally asking you to help me in this as I consider you to be a friend and leader in this movement and could use your help in recruiting others!

Here is the deal I have for you (please keep this between us!):

Deeply Discounted ticket to this Free Tshirt Incentives: If you get 25 folks signed up your ticket is free!! (We will have promo codes on the SRLC C4L webpage- get those you recruit to put in your name so we can keep track of how many you get) Upon supporting us, Dr. Paul will be holding a reception for supporters and attendees which will Dr. Paul and adult beverages!

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonindependent.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: braindeadzombiecult; election; larouchies; liebertarians; palin; paulestinians; preciousbodilyfluids; rino; ronpaul; rontards; sarahpalin; spammonkeys; youknowhesnuts
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To: Cicero

Patrick Ruffini twittered live during the counting and said there was something funny going on- there was an unusually high number of people voting they approved the job Obama was doing.


21 posted on 03/05/2010 3:58:01 PM PST by mnehring
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To: La Enchiladita

But Ron Paul is no friend of Sarah Palins. Ron Paul considers Sarah part of the counry club republicains as well as her supporters.


22 posted on 03/05/2010 3:58:37 PM PST by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Bigtigermike

There’s 800 votes for Paul in the straw poll.

Ron Paul has become an annoying gnat. The “Ernest T. Bass” of politics.


23 posted on 03/05/2010 3:59:08 PM PST by NavyCanDo (Palin 2012 Teleprompter Not Required)
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To: usflagwaver

Good catch, flagwaver, hmmmmmm........

Conversely, the FR button may be on some libertarian sites and that is why so many are flocking over here.


24 posted on 03/05/2010 3:59:55 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
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To: Clyde5445
But Ron Paul is no friend of Sarah Palins. Ron Paul considers Sarah part of the counry club republicains as well as her supporters.

Ron Paul considers anyone who is not Ron Paul or a devoted follower of Ron Paul to be onerous.

25 posted on 03/05/2010 4:02:44 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Clyde5445

I looked it up. You’re right, he said that.


26 posted on 03/05/2010 4:04:23 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
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To: La Enchiladita
Well, it is a big turn-off for me. I have had way too many conflicts with some of his obnoxious followers to ever want to support any of their candidates. They are rude, crude and I want nothing to do with any of them and wish they would go back to their own party and leave the Republican Party alone.

I think Free Republic should drop that link.

27 posted on 03/05/2010 4:04:29 PM PST by usflagwaver
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To: usflagwaver; La Enchiladita
I don't understand why Free Republic has a special section on the front page for the Liberty Caucus, which are the Ron Paul people. They are a bunch of looney toons.

I just went over there and snooped around a little and you're right. It's infested with Paul cultists. I wonder if that link was put up in the early days and the Paulestinians have taken it over since then? They're good at that and we all know they've tried (unsuccessfully) to do the same thing to FR.

I agree that it should be "de-linked."

28 posted on 03/05/2010 4:15:06 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Allegra
Well, you are important. I see your posts all the time. Maybe someone in the admin’s office will decide to do that if you agree. It has bugged me for a long time. I am glad to see it is not just me that doesn't like it. I don't know how they can pretend to be conservatives. There are many more ways to be conservative than just not wanting big government.
29 posted on 03/05/2010 4:21:16 PM PST by usflagwaver
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To: usflagwaver; Allegra

I also see Campaign for Liberty.

But you know what, I don’t think it’s a big deal. The next thing you know, someone wants Hugh Hewitt removed or Club for Growth or someone else. LOL.

The main thing is to wake up more people, get the word out re Ron Paul/Libertarian infiltration. I don’t hear ANYONE on talk radio covering this.


30 posted on 03/05/2010 4:21:55 PM PST by La Enchiladita (wise gringa)
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To: mnehring
"high number of people voting they approved the job Obama was doing."

BS!!

98% of those that voted at CPAC had a strong disproval rating of the ZERO.

Ruffini misleading himself and others that don't care to verify the results.

31 posted on 03/05/2010 4:29:18 PM PST by VicVega ( SAINTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL)
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To: La Enchiladita; Cicero

There is always room for truth telling on Romney

Did you know that for months Mitt Romney spread the lie that Reagan was “Adamantly pro-choice” until he finally succeeded in creating a permanent internet anti-Reagan myth?

Ron Paul and Mitt Romney both disliked Reagan didn’t they but Romney even more, right?


32 posted on 03/05/2010 4:35:10 PM PST by ansel12 (Social liberal politicians in the GOP are easy for the left to turn, why is that?)
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To: VicVega

2% is high for that venue.


33 posted on 03/05/2010 4:39:14 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Allegra; mnehring; La Enchiladita

Seriously folks, did it ever occur to you that maybe some Ron Paul supporters donate all the time to FR? Maybe a lot? I’ve donated when I barely had enough to keep my home and now I’ll just say I’m much better off now. Why would you want to chase people away who want to help keep FR alive?


34 posted on 03/05/2010 4:42:01 PM PST by dcgst4
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To: Bigtigermike
I am sure The Truther in Chief just wants to win so he can make a statement. He just wants to make it clear that the earthquakes in Chile were caused by America's faulty foreign policy.If America would just surrender to the terrorists nothing bad would happen to us. It is all our fault.
35 posted on 03/05/2010 4:47:39 PM PST by John D
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To: Bigtigermike
Paul may corner market on attendees, keeping his Paul-ist cult followers (obnoxious as they are) to overwhelm the "straw poll," but he will NEVER win a state RNC primary or caucus.

Ron Paul is NOT a Republican but Libertarian and as such, many of those libertarian policies fly in the face of conservatism.

The Paul followers will never convince conservatives to embrace those policy points which border on anarchy.

36 posted on 03/05/2010 4:47:46 PM PST by zerosix (zerosix (native Sunflower))
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To: mnehring

Yeah, 2% of 2395 voting is high, HUGH (e) for the event. WRONG.

LOL.


37 posted on 03/05/2010 4:49:21 PM PST by VicVega ( SAINTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL)
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To: dcgst4
Seriously folks, did it ever occur to you that maybe some Ron Paul supporters donate all the time to FR?

Did it ever occur to you that some of us who are vehemently opposed to many of Ron Paul's policies and tactics are also regular contributors to FR?

38 posted on 03/05/2010 4:51:40 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: dcgst4

Who is chasing you off? Paultards are too fun to mock.


39 posted on 03/05/2010 4:52:03 PM PST by mnehring
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To: mnehring
Patrick Ruffini twittered live during the counting and said there was something funny going on- there was an unusually high number of people voting they approved the job Obama was doing.

Well who else would vote for cut and run other than Obama supporters?
40 posted on 03/05/2010 4:54:05 PM PST by John D
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