Posted on 02/20/2010 2:42:51 PM PST by onyx
Ron Paul Wins CPAC 2012 Presidential Straw Poll
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“According to Fox, about 10,000 present, but just 2400 voted.”
Just found a CNN article that said the same thing, and the pdf document summarizing the CPAC votes also said 2400 voted. This is NOT a representative sample of CPAC.
CPAC wants to make money. You buy a ticket and you can attend and vote. It’s all about money.
And the stupid media is peeing all over themselves and acting like he was just elected president.
Todd has his race tomorrow. Sarah has her politics and Todd has his race.
“Hey Neocons? Check the scoreboard!”
LOL
I just did. It says
Ron Paul laughed at in last Presidential debate and
less than .07% of the Primary vote
hehehehehe
Thanks for that information, dear pillut48. I knew Frazee had a connection to PR. I didn't know it was so close!
Reagan was toast until just before the NH voting and all the polls nationwide showed him in deep trouble. Dick Wirthlin had some inside polling that showed it turning around at the last minute after Reagan's barnstorming and the debate debacle ("I paid for this microphone Mr. Green!"). It was the Bush campaign's big screw-up.
It was a close call.
48% of the voters were students.
LOL do you have the Laurel and Hardy pic, that one is so good
Looks like they’ve been studying Alinsky too.
LOL. Good, if he’s the new leader, then perhaps the news media can go after Ron Paul and leave Sarah alone.
(1,558 votes cast): Romney 35%
McCain 34%
Huckabee 12
Paul 12
Undecided 5
Other 1
Looks like a bigger turnout than in 08...
We’re sort of arguing over whether he was mad at him or didn’t like him - not worth the bandwith, I think. I’m just trying to convince people that RP is on “our side” so much more than he gets credit for.
I frequently mention my trip to the d.c. area in Dec. For 50 miles you drive through the crystal palaces of companies that are sucking of favors to the gov’t and in Arlington, they’re building miles of new condos and business is booming. On my last day there, I saw the article in Anti-USAToday about the gov’t employees and their huge salaries. I told my boss later that it was a good thing I was leaving as I didn’t think I could contain myself much longer (I was in a course on gov’t regs with many gov’t employees in attendance).
RP wants to cut the mechanisms (agencies and dept’s full of unelected bureaucrats) that suck all that money out of the rest of the country and fatten the wallets of gov’t and their suck-ups. You never hear any “conservatives” talk that way anymore and that’s sad.
Yep. They infiltrated and this time they made a huge dent.
Imagine that, all the Paulacks in one place! There’s a joke here somewhere.
1. It makes CPAC look like a total joke, which it's become
2. Mitt works so hard to win this every year, distributing promotional items, etc. RINO columnists have been praising him and bashing Palin for the past two weeks, figuring he will come out looking strong and this happens.
I agree ... sickening.
I guess Keene getting caught with trying to
charge a million/or millions for endorsing Fedex
.. is now selling out CPAC for $$ to the disturbed.
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This is absolutely bizarre. John Ziegler, Documentary Producer and last year’s co-host of the Western CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) event, was invited to speak on a panel at this year’s event.
He accepted, and scheduled a time to interview CPAC Chairman David Keene. He wanted to question Keene about his support of Arlen Specter (Noted RINO who just recently bolted back to the Democraps), Keene’s recent critical statements about Sarah Palin, and most notably, about CPAC’s contradictory statements to FedEx that appeared to curry CPAC’s favor towards Fedex — for a million dollar price.
Mr. Keene, who is seen on the third video talking about “working with people you don’t like sometimes” and how we all have to work together, threatens to punch John Ziegler, and calls him various obscenities, and has him physically thrown off the premises by the most skinny, weasly security guard ever (who promises to identify himself, then refuses later.) CPAC even calls the local cops on Ziegler, who fortunately turn out to be fans of Ziegler’s.
This is, frankly, unbelievable. Suddenly I’m extremely interested in this whole FedEx business. Watch for yourselves,a Ziegler narrates a good tale:
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3FvTGPfao&feature=player_embedded
In the second video, Ziegler is dis-invited from the panel, then ignored when he tries to get clarification. The cops get called.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDQmIKq_kw&feature=player_embedded
In the third video Keene makes his hypocritical speech, the weaselly security guard is introduced, the friendly cops arrive, and Ziegler sums up nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HpSMKTf3ME&feature=player_embedded
Gateway Pundit sums up:
Keane, who was a big supporter of Arlen Spector, talks about supporting true conservatives and “not selling out” during his lunch speech Then the organizers bash Ziegler from the stage and aggressively escort him out of the building even though he was one of the vendors at the event.
What an embarrassment– for CPAC.
John Ziegler is right. This is like something you’d expect from democrats.
It’s time to weed the garden folks.
I completely agree. CPAC has just lost all my support and attendance.
~Johnny~
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Crystal clear and savvy that Palin didn’t attend.
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