And the bleary eyed, speechified CPAC attenders slouch from their rooms to face another day of foot murdering, brain bending and general revelry in the capital of the world. Andrew Breitbart and Rep. Allen West are on the bill today, the ACU’s way of making sure that the thousands here have good reasons not to scatter before the conference officially ends.
You do see some odd things at CPAC. I’ve mostly been here at the PJTV set, outside the main ballroom where the speeches are all delivered, but where there tends to be more movement and action and comedy. The Rent Is Too Damn High guy wandered through with his singularly compelling message, against which there really is no compelling argument. Well, unless you’re a landlord. Faux Sarah Palin fooled everyone long enough for a doubletake. This year, the Ron Paul Brigades are more numerous and more obvious than in years past. Wearing stickers on their dresses and jackets that say “Anti War” or “I (heart) Ron Paul”, these bright young folks giddly gather and gamely boo when the former Secretary of Defense explains the reality of being in a government engaged in war against a shadowy transnational force of trained mass murderers. At about four PM Friday, the Revolution Man himself walked through the lobby of the Marriott Waldman Park, carrying with him a moving throng of 17-21 year olds who know more than the rest of us, even those of us who have served in the military. The moving throng created a wake and a medium hum, and then a brief stampede from somewhere in the wings.
Later, I found out the source of that stampede. It turns out that as Paul and his apostles were making their way through the lobby, another group of about a dozen of the young Paulites were standing next to the central tower elevators, which are across the lobby and around a corner from the main area. They were all festooned with the mandatory stickers and/or buttons clearly marking them as disciples. A good friend of mine had been delayed by the Paul parade and was making his way away from the lobby toward the hotel’s exit to get a minute or two outside, when he happened upon the group by the elevators. They were oblivious to the movement going on mere yards away in the lobby, so my friend told them words to the effect that “Hey, you’re missing Ron Paul over there!” And the libertarians sprinted like lemmings through the lobby toward their leader. A brief stampede was born.
I think your article is misguided. As the straw pole is going to show Ron Paul is the candidate that was best represented at the conference. His platform both socially and economically fits the concerns of a substantial number of cpac attendees. Yet semi-news media outlets like PJamas media continue to ignore the movement that they are witnessing and continue reporting marginalized mainstream media nonesense. Way to report accurate and and unbiased non mainstream perspectives little guys. Thats why you created your little newspaper, so you can sound just like the new york times.
He always wins the straw poll, but is unelectable outside his district thanks to his Code Pinkish foreign policy. The straw poll means precisely squat outside this conference.
A person knowledgeable about the issues should know the difference between a straw POLL and a straw POLE.
Such a person should also know–by long experience, if nothing else–that winning a straw poll (or a straw pole–some prize, that) doesn’t translate into success in the general election.
Ron Paul is a modern day Founder. He was one of only four Republicans in Congress to endorse Reagan in 1976. He’s completely honest and not a flip-flop – that alone should make everyone vote for him. Who else in all of politics is completely honest and not a flip-flop? He’s been married to his wife for over 50 years. His speech at CPAC brought down the house. Many of the Ron Paul supporters at CPAC are 20′s – 30′s clean-cut and war veterans. What’s not to like about that?
Wow, you are one of the lamest most biased writers yet. I have never been to your tiny little insignificant site before, and now I know why. This must be the lamest liberal Democratic rag site out there. Great job at trying to split up the Conservative movement and portray a politician in such a negative light. You do realize you can try and try to split the conservative movement like the rest of the main stream media? However, your little site will never be a main source of news for anyone outside your 4 member 13-16 year old liberal apostle cult. So have fun and remember to keep crying away when your Obama hero loses in the next election.
I don’t much care if Ron Paul wins this idiotic straw poll. Or, for that matter, if he wins the idiotic presidency. But it’s fun as hell to watch public school-trained socialistic neoconservative neoliberal imbeciles try to make sense of all this. “Wait….what do you mean the government isn’t supposed to raise my children, steal half my paycheck, and listen to my phonecalls…? What do you mean you want to make decisions about your own life? What do you mean fiat currency doesn’t work? That’s just crazy talk, all the experts say so…. Well, take this: RON PAUL CAN’T WIN!”
Hey, maybe he doesn’t dribble enough one-liner bullshit to win the big, pathetic, rigged, jackass-in-a-suit popularity contest. But he’s got an army of pissed off kids and intelligent, driven individuals who understand things on a mechanical level, and have the literature and the principles to back up their positions. He’s already won.
I would say Bush, Obama, and all your other depressing excuses for human beings that have been propped up in front of us for several generations have lost. They are being marginalized as you read this by their inherent ridiculousness. As the system continues to collapse, nobody with any intelligence will want anything to do with their failed philosophies and policies.
“He’s completely honest and not a flip-flop”
And he believes honestly in a foreign policy that is so disastrously stupid that I will never vote for him. He has also never coughed up a good explanation or apology for the White Supremacist teaser pieces that come out in his newsletter when Lew Rockwell was it’s editor.
re: “17-21 year olds who know more than the rest of us, even those of us who have served in the military.”
True, that.