{"id":17602,"date":"2010-02-22T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17602"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:39:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:39:27","slug":"thoughts-on-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17602","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you missed CPAC in DC last weekend, here’s a photo essay from John Hawkins at Right Wing News<\/a>. I’ve never been to CPAC, but I’ve always gotten updates from my buddy Skye<\/a> who has been the last three years running.<\/p>\n

But I guess the big news this year was Ron Paul winning the straw poll<\/a>. Actually, that’s no surprise – since Paul was one of 11 candidates in the poll. What the media isn’t saying is that 69% of the 2000 voters in the straw poll voted against Ron Paul. Judging by the jeers when the winner of the poll was announced, Paul would run right of town if he were the nominee.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I agree with Ron Paul on much of his domestic policy, but he’s a nutbag on foreign policy. Since the media has been successful on focusing on domestic policy the last several months, in conjunction with the White House, it’s no wonder that a large number of Conservatives would ignore Paul’s foreign policy and vote for his domestic policy.<\/p>\n

And did I mention that Ron Paul supports IVAW’s Adam Kokesh for Congress in New Mexico?<\/p>\n

I guess if you’re voting and it’s not going to count, you might as well vote for Paul – especially if your intention is to just rock the conservatives a bit and get them focused on domestic policy. But I think most conservatives, who aren’t single issue voters, wouldn’t vote for Paul in a primary. What did he pull in the 2008 race? Less than 1% of voters, despite the squirrely Paulian’s claim that he pulled more but the media wouldn’t report it. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Skye, it looks like she busted Medea Benjamin and Tyge Barry<\/a> trying to interupt Glen Beck’s speech at CPAC. Also posted at Flopping Aces<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you missed CPAC in DC last weekend, here’s a photo essay from John Hawkins at … Thoughts on CPAC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-politics","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}