Posted on 02/20/2010 2:42:51 PM PST by onyx
Ron Paul Wins CPAC 2012 Presidential Straw Poll
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I totally agree with Paul’s stance on drugs
the so called War on Drugs is a big govt joke
just another bloated bureaucracy in the name of “security”
I fought in the war on drugs and you had to be on drugs to think it was a war.
Ron Paul is 74 or something
hardly a presidential contender
lots of wasted energy on fr worrying about someone who is not going to run
or perhaps you know he is going to run
if so please tell us
Well, that’s true in part. Ron Paul has a decent number of dedicated supporters who do spend time and money to do things that they think will help Ron Paul. Ron Paul really doesn’t spend much time coordinating these people, if he even could.
His supporters congregate on message boards, not this one, and come up with ideas about how to help Ron Paul, promote limited government, things like that, and they try to implement them.
Romney basically has a lot of money and pays people with that money to do things he wants them to do.
Paul and Romney, I guess, have the “best organizations” but they don’t work at all the same way.
Palin at 7%? Huckabee at 4%? The results have to be seen as embarassing for any top-tier or middle-tier candidate not named Ron Paul.
Although I like Palin, she’s started to lose some people recently. When she was attacking Obama, she was saying things that everyone could agree on. Now she’s taking positions on issues, and that’s hurting her. She has to be able to do better than 7%. “She wasn’t there” isn’t much of an excuse. She’s considered the front-runner (as well as Romney), she has to do much better than 7%.
I didn’t know Ron Paul was anti-Jew. Do you have a link?
Ron Paul supporters have a type of argument. Back in December 2007, when Ron Paul was running for President, the Ron Paul Grassroots put together a Ron Paul Tea Party Money Bomb, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Tea was dumped into Boston Harbor, other stuff happened that I don’t recall, and Ron Paul raised somewhere between 5 and 10 million bucks that day.
The Tea Party movement that started in 2009 wasn’t really an outgrowth of the Ron Paul campaign (there are some similarities), but the Ron Paul campaign / grassroots, did come up with the modern reuse of the tea party name.
The whole revolution / tea party / constitution / 1776 vibe was repopularized by the Ron Paul campaign / grassroots.
Obamas campaign came up with the Gotham font and the socialist realism.
Good. I guess CPAC has finally figured out that SMALL GOVERNMENT is the heart and soul of conservatism. The party bureaucrats had better start paying more attention to their base and less attention to the MSM— the tea parties are more than a minor temper tantrum.
Maybe the other 7600 didn’t have anyone to vote for? I voted for Ron Paul in the primary and I would do it again. First time I’ve had someone to vote FOR since Alan Keyes.
Jeb Bush got 2 votes? Why? The Bushes are the most liberal republicans there are
Woodrow Wilson and FDR started the War on Drugs. Wilson and FDR were both Democrats who believed in a bigger federal goverment. Ron Paul believes in a smaller federal goverment.
I forget, which are conservatives supposed to be for, a smaller federal government or a bigger federal government?
If you listen to people around here, you’d think that conservativism was about bigger government.
Yeah, a fantastic result, 7%. Down from last year. But she did squeak by Pawlenty. There’s your headline “Palin beats Pawlenty for 3rd”
There is one target with such enormous strategic importance that for it be taken out is so unthinkable that literally everything hinges on it – not just today but permanently. This target is ground zero of a balance of power strategy that has been operational for 1400 years. It is a granite cubicle called the Kaaba. Inside it is a black stone, which Muslims believe was found by Abraham and Ishmael. For hundreds of millions of Muslims, this is the holiest of relics. If these two religious objects inside Mecca were ever obliterated, the survival of Islam might be called into question....
That would make the Bomb more powerful than Allah.
This is theologically inconceivable for Muslims, or at least ritually unmentionable."
In other words -- "If you want to fight a War against Islam, it's real darn simple: either nuke Mecca and win the whole ball game, forever, or else don't play the game -- because otherwise, you're just pissing away blood and treasure to fight the same war this decade, next decade, and the decade after that, ad infinitum."
Know where I cribbed the above quotation?
From Dr. Gary North -- former chief staffer for that "hippie flower-child peacenik with no grasp of geopolitical realities", Congressman Ron Paul.
ron paul’s bill in the House of Representatives calling to Audit the Federal Reserve has been approved by a majority vote AND it has made it out of committee. Only the House Leadership is holding it up (Pelosi and others).
WHY Ron Paul’s bill is threatening is explained in the articles that are associated with another current thread here on Free Reublic that I’ve cited below.
It may well explain CPAC’s endorsement of Ron Paul and Palin not wanting to steal any of paul’s thunder at CPAC and, therefore, staying out of the limelight.
Passage of Ron Paul’s bill and a forced Audit of the Federal Reserve may be the country best hope of exposing Obama’s cengtral complicity in the causing and extending the nation’s finacial crisis.
“Central Banks Are On the Defensive” [Fed Under Attack; NY Fed Player in Greece, Spain Collapse]
Feb. 20, 2009 | Gary North
Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 4:59:53 AM by BIOCHEMKY
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north815.html
Tag, you're it.
I liked the Gary North piece you shared. I just discovered him.
I’m sending you some mail that discusses HOW:
Obama, the Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), Weather Underground (WU), global Muslim Brotherhood (MB) network, Al Qaeda, and Kenyan and American Politics are All Interconnected
I am also sending an Obama timeline that details his Ayers, radical Black Muslim, and Black Liberationist connections
That’s your analysis? The Democrats did this?
Ron Paul has a substantial organization on college campuses, it appears. I’m not sure exactly how they got there, or any details, but I’d guess that college students who support Ron Paul and Liberty got their asses over to CPAC. Ron Paul has a sizable number of dedicated supporters. We aren’t talking about huge numbers here - 1000 people maybe? Ron Paul has 1000 supporters willing to go to CPAC. No big surprise.
And, by the way, Ron Paul supporters are joining political organizations at the lowest levels all across the country.
Sarah a true conservative? Like when she slammed a windfall profits tax on the business of her choice?
Yea.. Real conservative there.
Maybe when she lied and misrepresented her position on the Bridge to Nowhere?
Quite a conservative.
Maybe when as mayor, when she tried to raise taxes to support her hockey rink pet project.
Yes.. Quite a conservative you got there..
He hasn’t announced, but Ron Paul’s supporters want him to run.
Not the case at all, I've been here 3 days and can tell you the only reason Ron Paul came in first is the number of young college kids here....they are the majority and they all like him. They can't tell you why they like him but they are all sporting Paul signs. Of the 10,000 here, only 2900 voted and I would venture to guess most of those were kids. Kind of scary.
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