Posted on 09/22/2013 10:48:35 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Sen. Rand Paul decisively won a straw poll held over the weekend in Michigan at a bi-annual gathering of Republicans, earning more than double the votes of rival New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican from Kentucky, won 188 votes, or 36 percent, in the 2016 Mackinac Presidential Straw Poll. Christie came in at second with 82 votes, or 16 percent, in the poll.
“It’s always exciting to place first in anything,” Paul told The Daily Caller in a phone interview Sunday morning from Mackinac Island after the results were announced.
He noted that the Island is “overrun with limited government, small government conservatives.”
“Not too many liberals on the Island this week,” Paul said with a laugh.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came in with 42 votes, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got 39 votes. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz trailed behind at 36 votes. Of those at the conference, 526 voted.
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Doesn’t mean anything, after he caves on funding obamacare.
Is this poll a regular thing? What’s its track record in predicting primary winners?
“He noted that the Island is “overrun with limited government, small government conservatives.”
“Not too many liberals on the Island this week,” Paul said with a laugh.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came in with 42 votes, while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got 39 votes. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz trailed behind at 36 votes. Of those at the conference, 526 voted.”
From the voting it looks like the Island was overrun with liberals and RINOs.
When Runt Paul and Christie Creame are the top vote getters there weren’t many conservatives voting.
Go home fat boy!!! Run for the Donk presidential nomination.
I bet Ron Paul has won 6 times in a row
Rand isn’t perfect, but he’s a darned sight better than Christie.
I agree with others. For me its a short list. Cruz, Palin, and Paul are my list.
Here's what your first and second choices have to say about him:
Sarah Palin: "I'm on Team Rand"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzpEq4jzIts
Ted Cruz: "I Am Proud To Stand Side By Side With Rand Paul"
How about a Ted Cruz-Ron Paul presidential ticket. Or it could be Ron Paul-Ted Cruz.
Both are young and dynamic like the image Obama crafted for himself. This county wants young, not some senile backstabber like John McCain. Mitt Romney had a dynamic image but the Democrats were able to trash it and define Romney as an out of touch plutocrat who had no use for the white middle to lower class.
I doubt Palin will run.
That being said, Cruz is at the top of my list, but I would gladly vote for Rand Paul in a general election
While I certainly prefer Paul to Christie (by far) they do have one thing in common.
Their chances of being elected President are somewhere between slim and none.
“after he caves on funding obamacare.”
Don’t worry, he won’t cave.
Are these the same straw polls that Ron Paul consistently won because his followers, mostly the same as support Rand Paul, spammed the Straw Polls?
Remember both in 2008 and 2012 how Ron Paul would routinely win Straw Polls and he didn’t have a chance in Hell of winning anything.
“When Runt Paul and Christie Creame are the top vote getters there weren’t many conservatives voting.”
All the recent polls have them both as the top two.
The RINO voters are rallying around Christie. And the tea party is firmly backing Rand.
“Are these the same straw polls that Ron Paul consistently won”
No. Romney won the last one and then went on to win the nomination.
They did pick Romney in 2011. It appears that a Paul wins the off years more often than not.
-— And the tea party is firmly backing Rand. -—
I’m guessing that Rand has inherited his dad’s rabid voting block. Right now, the nomination is Ted’s to lose.
“The RINO voters are rallying around Christie. And the tea party is firmly backing Rand.”
Will they be backing him when they find out he is for amnisty for illegals, queer marriage, and about every other left wing idea? He don’t even want to stand firm against owebamacare.
Rand Paul isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination but he’s the best we have.
Palin needs to get serious and run for Senate
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