Matt Lewis reported on Twitter that Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll, with Romney coming in a distant second.
Sigh – what about Jim DeMint?
There are students everywhere, who are Paul’s biggest supporters, so this isn’t a surprise.
Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends!
I, for one, am really disappointed to hear about Ron Paul winning the straw poll. Deep end, deep end, deep end……that’s about all I can say for that choice.
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Straw polls are relatively meaningless at this point and I don’t put much weight in them. I would have loved to see Rush show up and bring the house down topping last year’s excellent speech.
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I have personally attended two Tea Parties in TWO different states months apart. What I found:
It was full of Republicans. Democrats. Independents. Libertarians.
Basically the people were just plain mad at the government for insane spending and wanting to further intrude in the lives of Ameicans.
What our politicians dont realize is that almost to a man with everyone I talked to the Tea Party people believed that the government rigged it so our Big Business, Big Finanace could run FREAKIN AMUCK and then they all pointed fingers at each other and demonized big business for being evil.
THIS was the single most important factor that got the Progressive Neanderthanls put into office. The problem is that when push comes to shove the tea parties dont want big business restricted….they want them to go belly up as is the way with America.
Instead we got TARP….government bail out of GM. etc…etc.
There is a lot of angry in those marches. Not at Obama as the press tries to make it out, but at the Government. Left and right. It just so happens that the left is in charge right now.
Most people do not understand the movement. Its not about establishing a new party……its about getting candidates to show some FREAKIN sense in running the country and not in taking bribes, kickbacks and under the table laundered money to vote for their favorite PAC.
What most people dont understand is that their are going to be some named republicans bite the dust in 2010 too. There is such an incumbent backlash right now that the GOP is in LA LA land if they think they are in tight with the American People.
Facts are Both parties would probably do better if they just fired all the incumbents and started over….because in 2010 we are going to see an INCUMBENT MASSACRE at the polls. That favors the GOP but only slightly.
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You are spot on Doomed. I have been to two in my State, one in a small town and one at the State Capitol building and both were populated with union members, business owners, professionals, from the left and right, all walks of life. What I can see is that tea party people are concerned and damn fed up with corruption, cronyism, ideological and personal agendas and favoritism, all building the size of government to centrally control our very lives, are the targets of the movement. I too, think that most all incumbents have no idea of the level of anger the voting public is harboring, waiting to express it at the ballot boxes this November and beyond. Enough is enough.
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@Doomed: Said perfectly. I
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LC, can’t wait to hear more.
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There were all sorts of rumors floating around. Friday people were saying Rush was going to make a surprise appearance. Saturday it was Palin. So everyone laughed when Beck said he brought a friend and his blackboard came out!
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