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Stellar Presidential poll you folks have there.
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No Chris Christie ? OUCH Guv ,And a well deserved OUCH!!.
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A group of CPAC members .001% of whom think Obama is not Satan is not a representative sampling of even Republicans, let alone America.
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"Again YEP !!
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Has a CPAC straw poll winner ever had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the nomination? They really have a knack for picking the worst of the worst.
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Looks like Carson is flaming out. No surprise there. And what, no Trump?
ANYWAY . . in honor of Rand Paul’s victory, and Ben Carson’s unimpressive finish, I would like to announce that I have created a new medical board, the National Board of Brain Surgery. We will accredit individual if they can pass our test, which is below.
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Where in the human body is the brain located?
A. Underneath the left shoulder blade.
B. Just above the anus.
C. In the noggin’ atop your shoulders, dude! -
Restaurant owners should be free to discriminate against patrons on the basis of race because:
A. Discrimination is fun.
B. Racial minorities are unclean and spread diseases.
C. Some patrons might get sick to their stomachs if they had to dine in the same room as a person who is a different race.
D. All of the above.
Answers:
- C (although, will will accept the answer “B” from conservatives).
- D, obviously!
AND . . . I sincerely wish Rand Paul success in his quest for the GOP nomination.
But forgodssake you conservatives, don’t let it go to Christie!
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What happened to Scott Santorum/ Rick Walker???
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One must go back to 1984 (Reagan) to find a CPAC straw poll winner who got more votes than his Democratic opponent in a presidential general election (Bush won the straw poll and general election in 2000 with fewer popular votes than Gore in the general).
It is such an extreme group that groups like the John Birch Society have sponsored it (2010).
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) won the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll on Saturday.
It’s like being awarded the prize for the longest turd in a shitting contest.
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I think he will give JEB a run for his money because polls like this go his head. He sees this and actually believes he’s got a snowballs chance in hell of ever getting to be POTUS. The curly headed simp will do his best to make JEB’s run very difficult.
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Santorum came in 6th, then Rubio, Trump, Carly Fiorina, Christie, Perry & Jindal.
Don’t they look like a goofy (to put it kindly) pair!
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I gotta say Walker wins the goofy-off award hands down.
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Incredible…a guy who generated about zero “buzz” at CPAC (and yes I know getting buzz at CPAC is kinda like winning an award for actually showing up) winds up “winning” their poll.
And yet, here is the media, reporting this as a measure of who has the current leadership in a ranking of loons.
This and the Iowa Straw Poll where you spend about 1,000 bucks a head to get people to eat your bagged lunch and win their “vote,” are what constitutes “mo-mentum” in the modern reporting of electoral fortunes.
Charlie Pierce, as usual, used one of his rapier sharp skewers to describe the Iowa event thusly:
That doesn’t mean that everybody won’t show up for the corn dogs and the concerts and the spectacle of deciding which campaign is best at putting old white people on buses and moving them from one place to another. (Which, to me, is a qualification for managing an Indian casino, not for being handed the nuclear codes.) As Ed points out, this thing may be a monumental act of public tomfoolery, but it was important enough to squash the Tim Pawlenty Boom last time around, when it was won by Michele Bachmann, which should have told all of us all we ever needed to know about Tim Pawlenty.
…and I might add Charlie…Michele Bachmann. Lord things are so much quieter without her. And has anybody heard from Ann Coulter lately? CPAC is usually where she reappears in the dark of night.
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A man whose father stated that a dying man on the street should stay there unless he could “help himself” wins a straw poll of an organization whose members are anarchists.
Makes sense to me.
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It’s the “mad eye.” Margaret Thatcher also had this facial idiosyncrasy, which was seized upon by the very naughty Guardian cartoonist, Steve Bell. Let’s hope someone over here does likewise for the very silly Mr. Walker.
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He could, but probably only if the establishment guys and foreign affairs interventionists, the neo-neo-cons, which is basically all the other candidates garner a vote split up so many ways that he gets the lion share of the rest.
Nice.
At first I was wondering why there isn’t an LPAC. And then it hit me that if there was, no one would know because no one in the MSM would cover it. Certainly not with the kind of fawning, drool-saturated coverage the MSM gives CPAC.
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