[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings Mengerian:

CPAC is overrun with doe-eyed, altruistic college kids who eat the spoon-fed rhetoric.

This is good news, indeed. Spoon fed a little Glenn Beck quickly changes the doe-eyed into deer in the headlights.

Unfortunately, the CPAC voting process resembles a Chicago polling place near a large cemetary. Under those conditions, the Paulbots stuffing a ballot boxes doesn't qualify breaking news. Paulbots regularly spam poll after poll.

And who could forget how the Paulbots and Hucksters rigged the West Virginia Republican primary caucus during the lunch recess.

Cheers,
OLA

[Deagle]

Yes, the polling resembled Chicago - they had to actually request a ballot and stand in line to vote... heh. Hmmm, not quite like Chicago, no dead people voting, no crazy hoodlums standing outside with truncheons, and no Rahm... Not quite Chicago I would say... You are right of course that it was voluntary and that made Ron Paul the favorite of those that were determined to vote him in (Seems that the younger generation has more perseverance).

Of course, you realize that this has no real bearing on who or how the actual election happens... Seems that the favorite of CPAC has a minimal chance of election if you go by past history.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Here in WV, there was massive disillusionment about the deal worked out between the Ron Paul and McCain supporters to throw their votes to Huckabee so as to deprive Romney of a clear victory. In retrospect, the state party seems unlikely ever to try that "first state convention in the country" thing ever again. On the first vote, Romney received 40% of the 1500 and others were way behind. In a normal method, he would have picked up the rest of the votes to win it, as expected by the state party.

The reason for the convention was to set it up so that for once WV could have a voice in national politics, since the May primary is set by the 78%-Democrat legislature and is always too late to count for anything. But the way it worked out backfired, since essentially the deal between 126 McCain supporters and 200 Paul supporters with Huckabee had nothing at all to do with what 300,000 GOP voters might have wanted if asked.