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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Voter fraud...or cyber-wars- We need “boots on the ground” to help put an end to it before 2012.
They forgot their binkies...”Mommie, bwahhhawwhahh!...”
Geez, I had this guy pinned right. LOL
The majority of the audience did express their disapproval and they voiced it rather loudly too.
Arguably the best NM Governor other than Lew Wallace and somebody I can get behind for POTUS with no reservations.
Well, you're half right.
lol
You don't have any problem at all with politicians who think it's fine to kill little babies, huh?
Gary Johnson actually accomplished something to advance freedom (second amendment rights, lower taxes) in his term as governor unlike Saint Sarah.
FIRST-PERSON FACEPALM
Ann Romney has MS. Regardless of what we may think of her husband, that is a very low blow.
I wasn’t aware that NM was a bastion of freedom
I had no idea.
I’m glad to hear that. I would have been very disappointed in you if I thought that you had known.
Do you support killing little babies like Johnson?
Your point?
Take what you will from the image.
Sorry you couldn’t be there, you could give a 1/3 of a vote to Bachmann - who was there and spoke, Cain and DeMint.
You can feel happy though that Bachmann outpolled Palin, both in the mid/low single digits.
Everyone was there, pretty much, and Ron Paul romped.
After a while, the media might want to start telling the story that the one guy the media doesn’t want to win is winning, and the people they want to win, good conservatives and RINOs alike, are failing miserably.
People who win these major straw polls (and this is the major straw poll - the candidates were pretty much all there, trying) are not candidates who can not win.
The pundits have always used CPAC as tea leaves as to “who can win”. The CPAC winner always got credibility.
But the media, who love the bankers and the Fed, will look at the CPAC results and diminish them because they don’t like the results.
This is CPAC. Reagan spoke here over 10 times.
A lot of college stoners.
But only Ron Paul and to a lesser degree Mitt Romney understood where they were, and what they were supposed to do there, which apparently includes buying college stoners with weed and fast food.
Whatever it is, the goal was to win. And Ron Paul won, and Mitt Romney isn’t doing as well as he used to, but he still did well.
And everybody but Ron Paul and Mitt Romney (and Gary Johnson, actually) failed miserably at doing anything to show that they have even the barest scraps of a campaign organization.
Yes, it is easy to buy college kids weed and bus them to an event, and find them places to stay, etc.
But none of the candidates could do any of that. Only Ron Paul and Mitt Romney have any sort of organization, to do the boring day to day stuff that successful campaigns have to do. The CPAC story was open to any candidate that could do 10% who the media likes at least a little. And none of them could put anything together. No organizations at all. Sad.
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