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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Of course Ron Paul would come out on top in a convention poll.
There’s a big convention poll coming summer 2012.
Even if Paul wasn’t a loonbag over foreign policy, the dude would be 77 1/2 years old when he took office, if he won.
Waaaay too old. The Presidency is a younger mans position. No freaking way.
If this is all we’ve got the Marxist/Muslim stays in another four years.
Fantasy for Paulbots: Ron Paul wins the CPAC straw poll.
Reality for Paulbots: Ron Paul will carry 3-4% of the GOP primary vote and drop out early.
LOL There is only one thing that such an abomination of bumper stickers could mean, we have an obvious anti-American Constitutionalist terrorist patriot behind the wheel.
Janet Napolitano and Michael Chertoff (now scanner profiteer) who ran the fusion centers will vouch for that.
This is not an unusual combination of bumper stickers in Austin. Where was this pic taken?
I think his position is that tax dollars shouldn't be used for that, along with a variety of other things.
In other words, no, you don’t have any problem with politicians who think it’s fine to kill babies.
No, I agree with politicians who believe it is not a legitimate concern of theirs in their role as an elected official.
But the founders of this country said that the protection of innocent life is the primary reason for the existence of government.
It’s in that little document we call “the Declaration of Independence.” You might want to read it some time.
By the way, you do know that this is a pro-life site, right?
So, you don't believe that the protection of the unalienable rights of the people, all the people, is a legitimate concern of the elected official.
Tell us more. What's the basis for such a political philosophy? Can you explain how you're any different than Barack Obama? Your positions vis a vis life are identical, right?
I am pro-life personally and so is Gary Johnson.
We will just have to disagree on the legitimate role of the federal government.
Oh, I see. Personally. Just not for those fifty million dead babies. Got it.
So we can watch all of the Paulestinians slobbering and swarming and wetting themselves as they proclaim that this means Ron Paul will be our next president?
It is somewhat entertaining. :)
It ain't that you're disagreeing with me. It's that you're destroying the first premise of America, and denying the first duty connected with the oath of office for every single officer of government, at every level, and in every branch.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..." -- The Declaration of Independence"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." -- The Preamble, or Statement of Purpose, of the United States Constitution
"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." -- The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -- The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution..." -- Article VI, the United States Constitution
Here are the rest (that I’ve seen so far) of the topics about dingbat’s CPAC straw poll win:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672783/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672784/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672812/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672858/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672901/posts
By the way, don't pretend that Johnson is merely pro-choice for states like your libertarian hero Ron Paul, or Sarah Palin, or John McCain. He's an out-and-out pro-child-killing pol.
She has multiple sclerosis. She may not be feeling well. Attacking her appearance shows a real lack of class.
So, you are "personally opposed to abortion, but don't think you should impose your views on others." You sound JUST LIKE every leftist out there.
We will just have to disagree on the legitimate role of the federal government.
If protecting life isn't a "legitimate role" of government, there is no reason to have government.
Your opinion of the "legitimate role" of government results in a murdered baby EVERY 24 SECONDS.
And as I pointed out there's a big difference between the attendance at a substantive convention and the "come one, come all" attendance at a meaningless policy gathering. The Paulestinians won't have the same edge in numbers at the 2010 GOP convention with credentialed voting delegates.
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