Here are a bunch of the Romney supporters celebrating his hard fought second place finish.
Posted on 02/12/2011 2:45:03 PM PST by pissant
Returning champion Rep. Ron Paul has once the 2011 CPAC straw poll with 30% of the vote, with only one other candidate scoring a double-digit percentage: former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Trailing far behind but worthy of note were also former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson and New Jersey Chris Christie, with the loudest potential candidates– Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum, barely receiving mention.
Paul, who received ebullient praise from the crowd with a speech slamming nearly every important social and neo-conservative policy point, is used to this sort of praise at CPAC, so his win is not particularly surprising. Plus, with the boycott from family values groups and the inclusion of more civil libertarian/diversity groups like GOProud, the population voting in the straw poll was necessarily tailored to this sort of outcome. Nonetheless, the inclusion of Gary Johnson in the top three– a sort of “Ron Paul light” who openly advocates for the legalization of marijuana– and tying with a diametric opposite in both style and substance like Gov. Christie raises some eyebrows.
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“...the inclusion of more civil libertarian/diversity groups like GOProud...”
Then why post it and take up bandwidth?
cpac rejects Bachmann.
And Palin
Because people want to know.
Is it just me or is Ann Romney starting to look like Madeline Albright??
CPAC is a bit like a Star Trek convention. There are a lot of people who like the Star Trek TV shows and movies who would never check into a hotel for a weekend to attend a convention. Same thing with conservatives. Other than for think tanks and elected officials there really aren’t a lot of important things you can accomplish there. It’s mostly wonks and nerds and that more or less describes the Ron Paul crowd. So of course he’d come out on top in a convention poll, as would Mr. Spock.
B F D!!!
Ron Paul winning the straw poll is worthless.
It’s amazing how many college stoners you can buy with sufficient quantities of weed and Taco Bell.
It just underscores the fact that CPAC does not represent conservatives and Republicans.
Who the hell is this Gary Johnson other than he’s a kook?
I am sure the Left is really enjoying this bit of crud.
Wow. How impressive. A pro-choice for states libertarian blame-America-first isolationist. The most liberal Governor in the history of the republic. A pro-baby-killing libertarian, and a gun-grabber who preferred Mike Castle to Christine O'Donnell.
2011 CPAC Straw Poll results:
Ron Paul: 30 percent
Mitt Romney: 23 percent
Gary Johnson: 6 percent
Chris Christie: 6 percent
Newt Gingrich: 5 percent
Tim Pawlenty: 4 percent
Michele Bachmann: 4 percent
Mitch Daniels: 4 percent
Sarah Palin: 3 percent
Herman Cain: 2 percent
Mike Huckabee: 2 percent
Rick Santorum: 2 percent
John Thune: 2 percent
Jon Huntsman: 1 percent
Haley Barbour: 1 percent
Others: 5 percent
Undecided: 1 percent
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2010 CPAC straw poll results for comparison:
Here’s the final tally.
Ron Paul 31%
Mitt Romney 22%
Sarah Palin 7%
Tim Pawlenty 6%
Mike Pence 5%
Newt Gingrich 4%
Mike Huckabee 4%
Mitch Daniels 2%
John Thune 2%
Rick Santorum 2%
Haley Barbour 1%
Here are a bunch of the Romney supporters celebrating his hard fought second place finish.
The pro-abortion, drug-legalizing libertarian from New Mexico, whom Ron Paul loves with a purple passion.
Ron Paul: [Pro-Abortion] Gary Johnson is best alternative for 2012
"...he sees former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson as "the best" alternative should he not run himself."
Agree totally.
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