Paul wins Virginia GOP straw poll

[underpants]

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Sunday, Dec 02, 2007 - 12:08 AM Updated: 01:03 AM

ARLINGTON -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul easily won a presidential poll at a Republican Party of Virginia conference here yesterday.

Paul polled 182 out of about 500 votes cast. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson finished second with 112 votes, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee finished third with 51 votes.

The straw poll was held at the 24th annual Republican Advance, generally attended by activists and grass-roots workers, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in the Washington suburbs.

Republican officials dismissed the poll's outcome, noting that Paul has been concentrating on winning straw polls all over the country.

Read more: http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-12-02-0258.html

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"He brought people in here. What is more critical to look at is who finished second and third. That is a more true indicator of the feelings of the Republican Party of Virginia," said Tucker Watkins of Randolph in Charlotte County, a former 5th District GOP chairman.

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[goforit]

1. Hats off to the Libral conservative!!!

[tom_paine]

2. There go those Imperial Amerikan Subjects again, pretending we are free...

How dare they defy their betters, these Inferiors (as Bushie Philosopher and Guiding Star, Leo Strauss, called all of us) from Virgina daring to deviate from the designated Bushie successor, 9/11ani.

It doesn't matter. The Imperial Subjects of Amerika have nothing to do with determining the next Emperor, we only provide the fake window-dressing so that people that want to deny what is happening can continue to comfortably do so.

It makes me laugh, these futile and fruitless gestures of a bygone age (1776-2000, RIP Liberty).

[ozone_man]

9. Wouldn't it be the ultimate irony

if it took a win by Ron Paul to end the war, restore the Constitution, end the Patriot Act and NAFTA?

[tom_paine]

10. sadly, I am not sure it would, since most of the Democratic Leadership sems to care much less about

the Constitution than Paul.

Not ironic because Paul's way of restoring the Constitution would also at the same time achieve Norquists' dream of making government small enough to "drown in a bathtub", among other things.

No, a Paul "election" (how he could do that without the support of the minority voter suppression and vote stuffing wings of the Bushies, I do not know) would be a madhouse, and I thinkthe good things he did would be outweighed by those things that, ulitmately, would make it EASIER for the next Bushei to come forward and take their turn using Amerika as their litter box.

[hollowdweller]

3. Shows how much that people are yearning for somebody difft.

[onenote]

4. shows how much repubs hate government

and how strongly they oppose abortion

[onehandle]

5. Yeah, but he's "against" the war and "for" the Constitution...

So libruls love him too.

So he's a "little" racist...

[johnaries]

15. No, he SAYS he's for the Constitution but he's for the Articles of Confederation.

He's a regressive, he wants to take us backwards by 250 years.

[leftist_not_liberal]

11. I agree

Paul's success shows how many people are against the war, although his set is too politically STUPID to connect the dots between imperialism and free market capitalism. Of course the same can be said of a great number of Dems too...

[Virginia Dare]

12. Shows how the ropauls are stacking the conventions...

they aren't repubs, and they're well organized.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Probably just because George Allen sadly isn't available

Anyway, fuck Paul; fuck Thompson; and fuckabee Huckabee!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. Very well put!

[Javaman]

17. Or as I like to say...

Fuckabee. LOL :rofl:

[Solar_Power]

8. Means nothing. He still has zero chance of winning

[Gin]

13. As I drove home from work the other evening, I saw several people holding Paul

signs at heavily traveled intersections. The next day, the signs were along the roadside. Made me go...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[williesgirl]

14. I live in the mountains just west of Fairfax VA and it's red. There are TONS of Paul signs

out here. Should be interesting to see how our primary on 2/12 comes out here and in the rest of the state.

[bcoylepa]

16. Chomsky on Ron Paul

Can you please tell me the differences between your schools of “Libertarianism”?

Noam Chomsky: There are a few similarities here and there, but his form of libertarianism would be a nightmare, in my opinion — on the dubious assumption that it could even survive for more than a brief period without imploding.

Would you support Ron Paul, if he was the Republican presidential candidate…and Hilary Clinton was his Democratic opponent?

Noam Chomsky: No.
http://www.anarchismtoday.org/News/article/sid=74.html

[regularguy]

18. Thanks for that link. nt

[LeftishBrit]

22. Great interview - thanks for posting it!

[fujiyama]

19. Goes to show that people are tired of the status quo

Love him or hate him (or think he's just plain nuts), I personally find Paul's candidacy refreshing. He's certainly shaking things up.

Would I vote for him? Hell no. But he honestly scares me less than any other republican running for president and I honestly don't think he'd be nearly as bad as Bush.

[LeftishBrit]

21. A RW-er who 'shakes things up' and 'goes against the status quo'..

is even more dangerous than a RW-er who preserves the status quo.

Creating evil is even worse than preserving evil.

[UTUSN]

20. Kick, for bwah-hahahaHAH!1 Let's keep Ronnie in the big leagues!1 n/t