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CPAC Surprise: Ron Paul Wins 2010 CPAC Straw Poll
http://www.gather.com/ ^ | February 20, 2010 | Laurel Elise Ava

Posted on 02/20/2010 8:52:39 PM PST by Maelstorm

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Well this explains the prevalence of the gay activist sympathizers. Paul and Mitt, now that is a recipe for disaster. While I agree with much of Paul's small government ideas he still doesn't seem to understand the reality of national security and the role of the US in the world. Mitt still doesn't talk like a small government conservative but then again how could he? When you support mandating people buy insurance and a health plan not a whole lot different than some of the democrat variants it is hard to believe he is what we need. I think what these results show as has the past two years of CPAC is that CPAC is no longer even close in representing mainstream conservative thought. It is a tool for the Republican party. If we want lawyers and millionaires who think only to a slightly lesser degree than the leftist socialists that they represent messiah like hope for the great unwashed to represent us then CPAC is representative. They don't have a big picture approach outside of conservative veneer. They don't see what we are doing as a battle for liberty and principle but seemingly only as an exercise of political expediency.

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.

1 posted on 02/20/2010 8:52:39 PM PST by Maelstorm
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To: Maelstorm

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4880717

fast forward to 20:45 for cpac reaction to paul straw


2 posted on 02/20/2010 8:56:20 PM PST by rbmillerjr (I'm praying for Palin....if not I'll vote 4 conservatives...Mitt won't get my vote)
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While I agree with much of Paul's small government ideas he still doesn't seem to understand the reality of national security and the role of the US in the world.

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?

3 posted on 02/20/2010 8:57:47 PM PST by dragnet2 (We're not talking about those in the military here.)
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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.


4 posted on 02/20/2010 8:59:47 PM PST by ari-freedom
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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.


5 posted on 02/20/2010 8:59:47 PM PST by Rodebrecht (No army can stop an idea whose time has come.)
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To: Maelstorm

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.


6 posted on 02/20/2010 9:00:40 PM PST by Patrick1
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To: Maelstorm

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


7 posted on 02/20/2010 9:01:57 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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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.


8 posted on 02/20/2010 9:02:45 PM PST by ari-freedom
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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.


9 posted on 02/20/2010 9:04:14 PM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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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.


10 posted on 02/20/2010 9:05:27 PM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: dragnet2

What is a Laurel Elise Ava?


11 posted on 02/20/2010 9:06:49 PM PST by ansel12 ( (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.))
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The Bush administration at least listened when we stopped them on Immigration.

LOL!

You'd have better luck convincing me that IRS employees are sponsoring tea party events.

12 posted on 02/20/2010 9:07:10 PM PST by dragnet2
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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.


13 posted on 02/20/2010 9:09:45 PM PST by Brugmansian
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The Bush administration at least listened when we stopped them on Immigration.

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.

14 posted on 02/20/2010 9:11:15 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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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.


15 posted on 02/20/2010 9:13:10 PM PST by Mengerian
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To: South40

My friend from the south has a good memory.

Thank you.


16 posted on 02/20/2010 9:13:51 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: Maelstorm
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, etc etc -- this is all a bad dream.

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?

17 posted on 02/20/2010 9:15:00 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Conservatives must form own party.Lib Repubs move to Dem party.Pub party defunct.Two parties again.)
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Conservartive = Conservative - dang


18 posted on 02/20/2010 9:15:41 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Conservatives must form own party.Lib Repubs move to Dem party.Pub party defunct.Two parties again.)
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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.


19 posted on 02/20/2010 9:17:14 PM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: Rodebrecht

“How the hell did Romney come in second?”

Because he lost to Ron Paul. Otherwise he’d be first.


20 posted on 02/20/2010 9:19:24 PM PST by ari-freedom
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