Paul polls better at CPAC

Washington Times:

Texas Rep. Ron Paul won the 2012 presidential straw poll of conservative activists at the Saturday windup of the 37th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

The announcement of Mr. Paul's win was greeted with a mixture of loud jeers and equally loud cheers, illustrating the fragility -- despite the conference's three days of emphasized unity -- of the coalition of economic, foreign policy and traditional values conservatives on which the Republican party relies for electoral success.

A libertarian Republican whose opposition to the nation-building foreign policy of the second President Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress, Mr. Paul, a one-time presidential hopeful, beat out other big-name Republicans, capturing 31 percent of the straw ballots cast by 2,395 registered CPAC attendees. Organizers said 10,000 people registered for CPAC this year, with exhibits, speeches and other events taking place on two floors of the huge hotel.

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Ron Paul has his passionate followers who were notorious during the 2008 election for stuffing the online ballot boxes. They probably distorted his support from the rest of the country by a factor of 10 at CPAC. The fact is his national security policy is as goofy as the kook base of the Democrat party.

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