Saturday, February 20, 2010
CPAUL
Today, in a straw poll, the CPAC people voted an astonishing majority to Ron Paul!
Romney fell to second place by 11 points. He had won the CPAC poll four years running.
This is not good news for Romney (or the lame Pawlenty who came to pander or Palin who is falling like a stone).
Nor is it particularly good news for conservatives.
The whole tea party thing is made up of a significant number of disaffected Paulists. They have now come to CPAC.
I actually like Ron Paul. He is a libertarian. Sort of. Mix in the gold standard and stuff. He is clear and concise about his beliefs and he is not a god-guy or a social conservative all that much. He is an "aginner" for sure.
Nate Silver has an interesting take on this result which actually, I have read, shook up the organizers of CPAC quite a bit. It was not to turn out this way.
Paul is a non starter electorally. He is 74 and unelectable. He is draining support out of the GOP machine.
Read this.
Just when I was afraid all this was going to quit being interesting.
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