Ron Paul Booed after Winning CPAC Straw Poll – Romney Cheered
Posted by Scott @ 11:15 pmFeb 20
If you didn’t happen to catch the straw poll announcement at CPAC, you missed an odd occurrence. When Ron Paul was announced as the winner, we heard a smattering of applause and cheers that were quickly drowned out by loud boos, but when 2nd place Mitt Romney’s name was announced, the crowd cheered loudly. Go figure.. The breakdown of the vote is as follows…
- Paul 31%
- Romney 22%
- Palin 7%
- Pawlenty 6%
- Pence 5%
- Huckabee 4%
- Gingrich 4%
I know that in the past, CPAC was dominated by the GOP establishment types, but why do so many of them hate Ron Paul? I don’t get it. I don’t always agree with Paul on Foreign policy issues, but why do so many neocons label him a kook? The press and blogs, on both the left and the right, including Fox News, are complicit in propagating the notion Paul is somehow out of touch. I don’t think he’s a kook. I think he’s right on about 90% of the issues.
There were more boos in the crowd when Paul’s name was announced -vs- cheers when Romney’s name was announced. Yet, 31% of the voters in the poll supported Paul. There is a definite disconnect here and a clear split that is hard to explain.
I’m not saying that I would support Paul for president but do I prefer him over Romney. Romney is just another progressive GOP establishment puppet and he’s about the last person I’d support for president.
Romney is just another Obama style politician, who will say or do anything to get elected. He’s the same progressive who brought a failed universal heath care “mandate” to Massachusetts. He dramatically raised government “fees” to pay for all the spending, while claiming he didn’t raise taxes (fees -vs- taxes). Doesn’t that sound like the same old BS we see all the time from our politicians?
I don’t see how putting the same establishment politicians back in office is going to change anything. Is Romney kind of person real conservatives and those in Tea Party movement can get behind? I hope not.
You answered your own question. They hate Ron Paul because he’s not an Obama-style politician. He doesn’t tell people what they want to hear. His honesty comes through to us like no other. And the political class.. bought and sold at the marketplace every day.. can’t stand that. Its unforgivable. He makes them face what ugly people they really are.
Perhaps it’s that simple, but somehow, I don’t think so.
Seems many conservatives don’t agree with Ron Paul on foreign policy issues. I know I had issues with his view that we should abandon Iraq, after we had already broken it. I felt it would be to unfair to the Iraqi people to just pull up and leave, as Dr. Paul Suggested.
There also appears to be some animosity between many of the hardcore social conservatives, and the Libertarian leanings of many Paul supporters.
There certainly seems to be a lot of nasty rhetoric coming from Paul supporters and aimed at people who question any of Ron Paul’s positions. I don’t think that’s very helpful.
One would hope that all factions could at least come together and agree on Fiscal issues, especially at this time in history. If the conservative movement can’t come up with a viable candidate, one that’s palatable to the all factions in the movement, Obama will be very hard to beat. Obama and the progressives will turn out their base in 2012. That’s for sure.
No Scott it really is that simple. I’m one of those conservatives who doesn’t agree with Ron Paul on a host of issues. Here I am. That doesn’t mean I can’t admire his honesty and his intellect. They shine. But one of the things I do agree with him on is ending perpetual war. Blame the Neocons for the mess Iraq will be in when(if) we leave… not Ron Paul. You make it sound like he’s the one who lied us into war. And I think people like you who support perpetual war with the hidden agenda of making life easy for Israel at the cost of our blood and treasure deserve all of the wrath of the Ron Paul supporters.
Bob D,
I didn’t suggest that I supported perpetual war. Those are your words projected onto me, not my words or my position. You lose credibility when you misrepresent my position in such a way. My point is that we attacked and occupied Iraq so we should not bailout on them after trashing their country. How dishonorable that would be. The following debate clip on Paul’s opposition to the surge reflects my position.
http://thelibertyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/paulvshuck.flv
I agree with Huckabee on this and Ron Paul was proven to be wrong. The surge was a success and we will leave Iraq with honor.
My position has nothing to do with support for, or against, Israel. I believe all this anti-Jewish sentiment from the Campaign for Liberty crowd borders on racism and played a big part in the Paul movement being marginalized and losing credibility.
Sorry Scott, that doesn’t wash either.
I still call throwing good treasure and lives after bad perpetual war. I note how you lost track of the reasons we went in there in your reply. And whats worse you make no mention of when we get out. Like Big Brother does in 1984. That smells like perpetual war. It is just that yours is the position of a neocon apologist rather than a true neocon. You try to sanitize your position to make it less troubling to the masses. Your foreign policy idol has already won. His name is Obama. So much more palatable than Ba Ba Bomb Iran McCain. But We’re still at war. Besides, if you pseudo-neocons feel so bad about trashing Iraq, put Bush and his liars in jail instead of killing and bankrupting more innocent americans for your honor.
Actually, It washes very well with me. Your name calling and bomb throwing only makes you look foolish. Attacks like you just made are the domain of those with no real substance to support their position. If you had read any of my posts, you’d know that I am far from a neocon or a neocon apologist. There reason we are there is irrelevant at this point. The fact is we are there and we broke it. It is up to us to fix it the best we can. Only those who have no honor would suggest otherwise.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this issue.
Fox played the 2010 strawpoll instead of the2011. Fox has already apologized etc.
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