http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02 ... poll-cpac/
They pick Ron fucking Paul in their straw poll as the candidate they'd like to see run for President.
Need further proof the CPAC people are crazy?
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Re: Need further proof the CPAC people are crazy?
Funny you should mention that....
In the paper, seems a florist
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No one raped her, poor Doloris,
Just detained her and drained her on the spot
Re: Need further proof the CPAC people are crazy?
If more Republicans were like Ron Paul I might start voting for them. It's the religious fanatics who push me away.
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Re: Need further proof the CPAC people are crazy?
Neo-Cons Spin Ron Paul Win--
Mainstream- and neo-conservative news outlets have been whirring overtime in their attempt to spin Texas congressman Ron Paul’s impressive straw poll victory at this weekend’s CPAC convention as “irrelevant”, even though the event is normally considered a bellwether for the direction the Republican Party will go in the following year.
FOX News lead the charge during its live coverage of the event, calling the poll “unscientific” and merely giving “bragging rights” to its winner:
Fox News continued downplaying the victory on its Web site, saying that the vote is “not necessarily a good forecaster” of conservatives’ leanings nation wide.
Several news outlets, including USA Today and FOX News micro-blogger Jake Gibson, tried to taint the win by reporting that “boos” were heard when Paul was announced as the victor. USA Today also quoted Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio as saying that a strong showing of Paul supporters was the only reason why he won.
Former presidential hopeful turned FOX correspondent Mike Huckabee reportedly whined to co-workers that he did not bother voting because the poll had been taken over by “libertarian activists.”
“CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year,” Huckabee said.
He also knocked the conference’s relevance this year in particular, with so much activity around the tea parties.
“Because of the way that it solicits sponsors, it’s almost becomes a pay-for-play,” he said, taking a shot at the group’s credibility as a whole. “It’s kind of like, who will pay money to be able to be a sponsor and get time in the program. That’s one of the things that has hurt its credibility in the last couple of years.”
Michelle Malkin’s blog Hot Air questioned whether the poll could be taken seriously, adding: “53 percent say they wish the GOP had a better field of presidential candidates. Is that an outlier produced by the Paulnut contingent too, or genuine proof that there’s room for a dark horse?”
Strangely, in The Washington Post’s Monday coverage of the GOP’s 2012 presidential contenders, the congressman from Texas was not mentioned once. Staff writer Chris Cillizza instead plugged Romney as the party’s “nominal front-runner.”
There was surprisingly little coverage of the event on talk radio Monday. In 2009, CPAC was arguably the biggest event in conservative politics all year, featuring right-wing all-stars like Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and many more. However, there was small dissmissal of it on Tuesday.
“CPAC doesn’t mean much,” neo-conservative talk radio host Steve Malzberg said during an on-air discussion with ABC News Senior Political Reporter Rick Klein Tuesday. “It will totally forgotten about next week, and what does it mean? It doesn’t influence who will run for president, Ron Paul is not going to be the candidate, I mean, big deal! It happened, It’s over! I just think that the mainstream media tries to read too much into it, to try and make villains out of the people who attend.”
“There are fringe people in every political movement,” replied Klein. “Whether it’s a liberal one, or a conservative one, there’s people, unsavory elements that you wouldn’t like to have associated with you as a right-thinking person. That doesn’t define the movement.”
In 2008, pollsters were shocked when Romney beat Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by just one percent of the vote, even after announcing the suspension of his presidential campaign.
That year, Paul tied for third with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 12 percent of the vote. In the same poll for 2009, Ron Paul again came in third place, this time with 13 percent of the vote. He was bested by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, at 14 percent, and Mitt Romney, with 20.
“I believe we are on the verge of something very significant,” Paul told CPAC in 2010.
http://www.therightperspective.org/2010 ... -cpac-win/
Mainstream- and neo-conservative news outlets have been whirring overtime in their attempt to spin Texas congressman Ron Paul’s impressive straw poll victory at this weekend’s CPAC convention as “irrelevant”, even though the event is normally considered a bellwether for the direction the Republican Party will go in the following year.
FOX News lead the charge during its live coverage of the event, calling the poll “unscientific” and merely giving “bragging rights” to its winner:
Fox News continued downplaying the victory on its Web site, saying that the vote is “not necessarily a good forecaster” of conservatives’ leanings nation wide.
Several news outlets, including USA Today and FOX News micro-blogger Jake Gibson, tried to taint the win by reporting that “boos” were heard when Paul was announced as the victor. USA Today also quoted Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio as saying that a strong showing of Paul supporters was the only reason why he won.
Former presidential hopeful turned FOX correspondent Mike Huckabee reportedly whined to co-workers that he did not bother voting because the poll had been taken over by “libertarian activists.”
“CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year,” Huckabee said.
He also knocked the conference’s relevance this year in particular, with so much activity around the tea parties.
“Because of the way that it solicits sponsors, it’s almost becomes a pay-for-play,” he said, taking a shot at the group’s credibility as a whole. “It’s kind of like, who will pay money to be able to be a sponsor and get time in the program. That’s one of the things that has hurt its credibility in the last couple of years.”
Michelle Malkin’s blog Hot Air questioned whether the poll could be taken seriously, adding: “53 percent say they wish the GOP had a better field of presidential candidates. Is that an outlier produced by the Paulnut contingent too, or genuine proof that there’s room for a dark horse?”
Strangely, in The Washington Post’s Monday coverage of the GOP’s 2012 presidential contenders, the congressman from Texas was not mentioned once. Staff writer Chris Cillizza instead plugged Romney as the party’s “nominal front-runner.”
There was surprisingly little coverage of the event on talk radio Monday. In 2009, CPAC was arguably the biggest event in conservative politics all year, featuring right-wing all-stars like Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and many more. However, there was small dissmissal of it on Tuesday.
“CPAC doesn’t mean much,” neo-conservative talk radio host Steve Malzberg said during an on-air discussion with ABC News Senior Political Reporter Rick Klein Tuesday. “It will totally forgotten about next week, and what does it mean? It doesn’t influence who will run for president, Ron Paul is not going to be the candidate, I mean, big deal! It happened, It’s over! I just think that the mainstream media tries to read too much into it, to try and make villains out of the people who attend.”
“There are fringe people in every political movement,” replied Klein. “Whether it’s a liberal one, or a conservative one, there’s people, unsavory elements that you wouldn’t like to have associated with you as a right-thinking person. That doesn’t define the movement.”
In 2008, pollsters were shocked when Romney beat Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by just one percent of the vote, even after announcing the suspension of his presidential campaign.
That year, Paul tied for third with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 12 percent of the vote. In the same poll for 2009, Ron Paul again came in third place, this time with 13 percent of the vote. He was bested by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, at 14 percent, and Mitt Romney, with 20.
“I believe we are on the verge of something very significant,” Paul told CPAC in 2010.
http://www.therightperspective.org/2010 ... -cpac-win/
