Posted on 09/17/2011 8:41:32 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
This weekend, the California Republican Party had its 2011 Fall Convention at the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. One presidential candidate, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, spoke at a dinner on Friday night, and Saturday morning's breakfast featured two more contenders: Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter and Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Paul's fans were out in force both outside the hotel -- awaiting his arrival -- and inside the ticketed Lincoln Clubs Breakfast. He spoke last and was late, allowing McCotter to add a question-and-answer period to his prepared remarks (more on that later, check back). McCotter is also on the roster of speakers for Sunday's Beverly Hills Tea Party, to be held from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Beverly Hills Park on Santa Monica Blvd. Raucous cheers and whistles and whoops and screams -- one could be forgiven for wondering.... ...if they were for an elderly 11-term House politician or Justin Bieber -- announced Paul's presence outside the doors. He then entered to another round of cheers and camera flashes. (Paul is also hoping for a warm reception online, using the occasion of Constitution Day, the anniversary of the signing of the document on Sept. 17, 1787, to launch another 24-hour fundraising money bomb.) Several breakfasters videotaped portions of Paul's speech, which likely would be familiar to anyone who's heard him the previous two times he ran for president -- in 1988 on the Libertarian Party ticket and 2008 in the Republican field.
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So? We’re goofballs out here. What else is new?
374 Muslims. This is how he will win the straw poll in MI too.
Figures...Californians apparently thought Ah-nold would make a great republican.
HEY YOU KIDS! TURN OFF THAT ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC AND GET OFF MY LAWN OR I'LL COME AND TAKE YOUR AIR-CONDITIONERS!! UH-HUH, YEAH. THEN YOU'LL STRAIGHTEN UP AND GO HOME! LIBERTY CONSTITUTION. LIBERTY CONSTITUTION. STRAW POLL. MONEY BOMB. GLOBALIST. GLOBALIST. GLOBALIST. LIBERTY CONSTITUTION.
Ron Paul wins almost ever straw poll battle he engages in, then loses every war that matters.
ROFL! Stealing that...
Sheesh, everybody knows Trebek finised second.
A: If these were the only options on the California Republican Primary ballot, Write-Ins would get the nomination.
Does anyone know who the hell these clowns are?
Check out the Topix boards from all over the country. Paul must be paying people to spam them day and night. They are as kooky as the LaRouche crew and even more offensive, which takes some doing. I keep waiting for the “Sarah Palin slept with an Ethiopian Jewish basketball team while Bibi was under the bed with Bristol” story to emerge from their fetid press office.
Have to admit, I laughed at your comment .. then thought, that’s the problem with a weak party. When I lived in CA, the GOP ruled. Now they might as well not even have a party out there. Is there any way the Paul people could win a poll of any kind in a state with a large, active GOP? There’s no place left for the CA GOP to go but up.
Ron Paul and his supporters, working hard to give Obama a second term.
Straw polls and online polls stacked mean nothing.
There is a reason he cannot get more than 35 or so delegates.
The country rejects him.
I stopped by the Republican booth at the Western Washington State Fair today. Its been open a week now and Perry is way out in front in thier straw poll. Paul was down near the bottom. Its all about where the Paulbots strike.
I'm sure that's what Ronny is bragging about at this very moment.
If this fool is nominated, I won't even bother voting.
This has given me a goal!!
Let’s relocate Ron Paul’s Libertarian rear end from Texas...to California!!
He could be the King of Kali.
(no offense intended to Cal Freepers)
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