Posted on 02/20/2010 8:52:39 PM PST by Maelstorm
Texas Representative Ron Paul won the 2010 CPAC straw poll tonight, beating out both Mitt Romney & Sarah Palin, and raking in 31% of the vote. Paul, a Libertarian who is perhaps best known for his aggressive stance against the Federal Reserve, has a dedicated group of followers which have again affirmed their influence within the Republican party.
What this means for a 2012 bid for presidency is uncertain, however; Paul’s supporters were a vocal and visible group when he ran for President in 2008, but in the end, Paul walked away with only a small percentage of the actual votes. According the Huffington Post, Paul was the most anticipated speaker at the three-day convention, and his followers flooded the auditorium to hear him speak; yet when the results of the straw poll were announced, the crowd booed loudly.
Perhaps this shows just how much Paul’s old-school approach to Republicanism fractures the GOP. Ron Paul is an unorthodox figure in the political scene; his libertarian manifesto, The Revolution, is a New York Times bestseller; he rallies against neoconservatives and liberals alike while preaching states rights, free-market economics, and small government.
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The left has a strategy to break us and force our submission. They have implemented it and have succeeded in wearing us down. Does anyone think that the Republican leaders would've resisted the call for Cap and Trade if it were not for us in the grass roots? Do you think they would have resisted the increasing pressure to call what is a sexual behavior a civil right? Do you think they would've resisted Health Care when Mitt Romney an architect of the oppressive Massachusetts health care plan is the one they wanted as our Presidential candidate? We need a plan to break the left. The Tea Party is the first time conservatives with a real plan based on founding principles has coalesced and we are breaking them as much as they are breaking themselves. We have plenty even in these forums that are eager to go back to the status quo. They want to elect liberal Republicans just so we can get an easy win and wont have to actually work, explain, and advocate principles that appeal universally to voters when articulated well, instead they want to sneak in.
Well the left does work hard because they are like thieves. They know the value of the liberty they are stealing from us. They know the value of the power they are gaining over us by forcing us to accept their false premises, issues, and lifestyles. We as conservatives tend to just want them to go away and leave us alone. We need to keep focused and understand that they will not and that we have to create an execute a solid plan and make them leave us alone.
Those who don't respect liberty or the sovereignty of their fellow man can not be trusted and can not be left to their own devices because while we sleep they are plotting and no matter how ridiculous and ugly their ideas are to the strong it is the fact they prey on the weak and the bitter and hopeless as serfs to their desires.
You do, do ya Ms. Laurel Elise Ava?
Tell me then, why during the Bush administration did they stand by and watch, and actually aid and abet, tens of millions of people, and God knows what else, to enter the U.S. illegally, during war time?
Progressives don’t merely want to destroy the constitution. They want to destroy all of our hallowed institutions: the military, Judeo-Christian morality, the traditional family, our culture and national identity.
How the hell did Romney come in second? The man is a certifiable ass. He needs to quit his political career and start promoting Just for Men.
You have to give Paul credit. He was able to get everyone who voted for him in 2008 into one room to vote for him in the CPAC Straw Poll. Impressive.
So...somebody start a thread here....
make a list of true Conservatives....
and a list of Big Govt. Republican Rats....
Tom Trancredo= True Conservative
Sarah Palin= True Conservative
Ann Coulter= True Conservative
Tom McClintock= True Conservative
etc. etc. etc.
Mitt Romney= Big Govt. Rat
John McCain= Big Govt Rat
Lindsay Graham= Big Govt Rat
There are a lot more but they voted for Obama in the general. They don’t want to hear all this talk about cutting taxes and personal responsibility; they just wanted to gut the military.
The Bush administration at least listened when we stopped them on Immigration. Obama has undone most of what we accomplished with his election. Immigration enforcement has fallen precipitously and no one has noticed.
What happens with CPAC is a bunch of people truck in their supporters. Sarah would’ve did much better if she had been there most of her supporters aren’t CPAC types.
What is a Laurel Elise Ava?
LOL!
You'd have better luck convincing me that IRS employees are sponsoring tea party events.
Its no surprise. Last summer I joined a conservative social networking group. Ron Paul people have spammed it into almost nothingness. First wave came in preaching founding principles. You know, things like “separation of church and state” which aren’t in the constitution. We fought that off. Then came a wave hollering about “neocons” and the war. They just hammer and hammer until people walk away.
LOL!
You'd have better luck convincing me that IRS employees are sponsoring tea party events.
"See you at the bill signing" wasn't listening. It was his arrogant way of saying he's going full steam ahead with amnesty in spite of the fact that most Americans (including his conservative base) said they did not want it.
CPAC is overrun with doe-eyed, altruistic college kids who eat the spoon-fed rhetoric. Mitt’s slickness is close to Clintons, and has the charm and appeal the kids like. I was saddened to see Newt rank as high as he did, too.
My friend from the south has a good memory.
Thank you.
Getting very discouraged as a Conservative out here. Where are our Conservative leaders?? Do we have any??
We desperately NEED a Conservartive party? Who is going to step up and form it?
Conservartive = Conservative - dang
We have them but we have few that are independently wealthy or the charisma and sadly that seems to be the primary criteria at least for the Republican party today.
“How the hell did Romney come in second?”
Because he lost to Ron Paul. Otherwise he’d be first.
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