Worshippers of Ron Paul (R-Own Private Idaho) packed CPAC again this year for a few minutes to hear their Lord and Master speak and to vote for him in the straw poll, which Paul won. (It's not like the Paul-bots came to, y'know, actually participate in the rest of CPAC -ed.)
Does this vote mean anything? Nothing more than this: The GOP is such a big tent we even let the clowns and the monkeys in ring three vote. Hells bells, they're not really even part of our circus, and we still let 'em vote.
UPDATE: Someone pointed out that Mitt Romney came in second. That doesn't mean anything, either. Like Paul, he got his folks out to vote. Nothing more. The man who gave Obama the inspiration (and fig leaf) for his 'individual mandate' scheme hasn't got a hope in California of winning enough support to gain the GOP nomination in this political climate, much less the White House. Romney's sudden embrace of conservative concepts like limited government and fiscal responsibility look as unrealistic as they truly are. He ain't Reagan. As one who used to live there, I can tell you that a 'Massachusetts conservative' is a 'liberal' in most of the rest of the country.
In my opinion, if you want to know who the serious GOP candidates are look at those who got 4-6% of the vote in the straw poll, or who didn't participate at all. 2012 is a loooooong way away.
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