Posted on 02/20/2010 6:56:45 PM PST by SmartInsight
Paul's victory renders a straw poll that was already lightly contested among the likely 2012 GOP hopefuls all but irrelevant as the 74-year-old Texan is unlikely to be a serious contender for his party's nomination.
CPAC organizers were plainly embarrassed by the results, which could reduce the perceived impact of a contest that was once thought to offer a window into which White House hopefuls were favored by movement conservatives.
A spokesman for the conference rushed over to reporters following the announcement to make sure they had heard the unmistakable boos when the screen first showed Paul had won the straw poll.
2,935 votes were cast in the straw poll, the most in the history of the 37-year conference, but a fraction of the approximately 10,000 people who attended CPAC
Forty-eight percent of those who participated in the contest indicated that they were students and the divergent reaction to the results reflected the outcome.
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FUDGEPAC was such a mess this year. Only Beck’s speech redeemed it (somewhat). I think it is time for a new organization to run this thing.
If only tax payers could vote, Ron Paul would get 100 percent of the votes
Well, it’s not illegal or unethical to do what they’re doing. Their juvenile games aren’t funny anymore and their political onanism is hurting their professed cause.
You are replying to me like am a Romney supporter. I am far from it. I just pointed out that he came in second behind Palin in the Caucus straw poll last week. I am not surprised either because this far out its all about name recognition. Other names will rise to the surface as we near the Primaries.
I gave Romney a fair shot at winning my support in 2008, but I thought he sucked in the GOP debates. That “show of hands who believes man is causing global warming” question in the Iowa debate was the clincher. Mitt, Rudy, McCain, and Huckabee’s hands were up before Fred saved their butts.
As far as Ron Paul. He's an annoyance. A scorched Earth conservative and so are his disciples. If they don't get what they want then bring the whole show down.
“The crowd was 58% 25 and under in age, of course Ron Paul won!”
And it looks like FR has drawn the attention of the under 25 crowd lately. I suspect most of the Anti-Palin post we have been seeing lately are started by Ron Paul disciples.
Straw polls are irrelevant. Last year Romney won, and look what happened.
How do you know they didn't?
The overall feeling I got with CPAC is whoever organized it decided they were going with the watered down version of Conservatism to appeal to a wider audience. Even the media seemed overly enthused about CPAC.
Best I can tell, his draw is the same that fueled the 60's anti-war youth.
Cowards scared to death they might have to stand up freedom.
I usually don't refer to them as "anti-war," but anti-Liberty.
Maybe paul winning is really a vote for none of the above.
Yours sounds about right across the board.
Not sure about Ron Paul—but he wants to eliminate the Federal Reserve and the IRS, put us back on the gold standard, end the war on drugs, the war on terror and that’s just for starters.
I think he’s all about individual responsibility and limited government—but I think he was against the Patriot Act and some things that make sense for national security.
I like most of the things above, but I just wonder how Ron Paul or a candidate like him deals with a network like Al Qaeda and its spin offs? How he would deal with cyber attacks from China, Russia and hackers? If he calls off the war on terror and the war on drugs—what does that look like? Does it mean drugs are made legal? Does it mean we pull up stakes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and whatever becomes of them is their problem?
Does it mean we pull up stakes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and whatever becomes of them is their problem?
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yep. not only in those places, but in his speech he seemed to be arguing that all 700 US military bases around the world are a waste of our resources.
“Egg on Romney’s face?”
No, not “egg”. He’s a kneepad milkmaid for Blankfein and Dimon. As such, he will win he nomination and carry out the bankster agenda, whether regardless of whether any American Citizens actually vote for him or not.
The media have their marching orders and you WILL accept the CFR choice.
Years ago William F Buckley, ostracized and booted the Birchers out of the Republican Party as nuts.
Our Party is now in a civil war and it is time to alienate and isolate the Ron Paul nuts.
They are not conservative and Ron Paul despised Reagan and he hates that we defended ourselves against terrorists.
“In 1988 Ron Paul was nominated by the Libertarian Party for president and ran against the Reagan agenda, at one point telling the Dallas Morning News, Reagan was a “dramatic failure” as President. Paul also said, “I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan Administration”, Reagan was “a failure, yes, in, in many ways”. Transcript of Paul’s remarks on Meet the Press. Also, see Youtube video of Paul on MTP.”
Translation: Mr. Miller is very depressed this morning. He is also a very sore loser.
Ron Paul doesn’t want to police the world.
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