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02-26-2011, 06:59 PM
By Mark Anderson
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Once again, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) won the
presidential straw poll at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—an event loaded with “neoconservatives” who want to marginalize or exclude pro-peace conservatives such as Rep. Paul and his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—largely because “Paul and son” want to keep military spending on the table for possible major budget reductions.
This development, wherein Ron Paul received 30 percent of the vote, came amid the usual evasive reporting by the mainstream media—reports that echo those in 2008 when Rep. Paul, a medical doctor from Lake Jackson, Texas, threw his hat in the ring but was virtually invisible to a corporate media big party alliance that does not want to admit that their dull, manufactured presidential candidates are not making the grade.
For example, a south Texas daily, The Monitor, in the Feb. 13 edition, reported that Rep. Paul had won the straw poll, as the first choice of the 3,742 who voted at the CPAC. Paul’s 30 percent was followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 23 percent—about the same as last year. But the vote was highly fractured for the other potential candidates who visited the CPAC podium, including Texas Gov. Rick “Toll Road” Perry, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, tycoon Donald Trump, Rep. Michele Bachman (R-Minn.) and others that inspire yawns.
http://bit.ly/dUgNxG
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Once again, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) won the
presidential straw poll at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—an event loaded with “neoconservatives” who want to marginalize or exclude pro-peace conservatives such as Rep. Paul and his son, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)—largely because “Paul and son” want to keep military spending on the table for possible major budget reductions.
This development, wherein Ron Paul received 30 percent of the vote, came amid the usual evasive reporting by the mainstream media—reports that echo those in 2008 when Rep. Paul, a medical doctor from Lake Jackson, Texas, threw his hat in the ring but was virtually invisible to a corporate media big party alliance that does not want to admit that their dull, manufactured presidential candidates are not making the grade.
For example, a south Texas daily, The Monitor, in the Feb. 13 edition, reported that Rep. Paul had won the straw poll, as the first choice of the 3,742 who voted at the CPAC. Paul’s 30 percent was followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 23 percent—about the same as last year. But the vote was highly fractured for the other potential candidates who visited the CPAC podium, including Texas Gov. Rick “Toll Road” Perry, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, tycoon Donald Trump, Rep. Michele Bachman (R-Minn.) and others that inspire yawns.
http://bit.ly/dUgNxG