Wednesday, February 24, 2010
So What Of Ron Paul Winning the CPAC Straw Poll?
What do you make of Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll with 31% of the vote?
I certainly found him to be a refreshing libertarian voice in the 2008 debates. I'd take him in a second over Obama. I'd happily accept some distasteful libertine policies if it meant drastically cutting the size of the federal government.
I certainly found him to be a refreshing libertarian voice in the 2008 debates. I'd take him in a second over Obama. I'd happily accept some distasteful libertine policies if it meant drastically cutting the size of the federal government.
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Ron Paul is awesome, but I make nothing of it. When the results were announced, the room broke out it boos. Dr. No has a hard-core group of supporters that would run through walls for him, and that includes coming to CPAC and casting votes 3 years before the presidential election. But he has virtually no chance of earning the nomination. Plus, at this point, he's just too darn old.
That said, there is an heir apparent to the Paul movement, and his name is Gary Johnson. A former two-term governor of New Mexico who is young, a successful business owner, popular in his home state, and brandished the veto pen liberally in combating state spending.
Like Paul, he has some positions that are idelogically consistent, but considered "out there" by much of the GOP base (e.g., kill the Fed, bring the troops home, legalize and regulate marijuana use, etc.), but like Paul, that's b/c he's a genuine libertarian animal.