With none of the "top-tier" candidates competing, Rep. Duncan Hunter scored a victory in the Texas Straw Poll Saturday, according to KVOA.com:
The California congressman got 534 votes, but that was more than 40% of the total cast in yesterday's low-turnout event in Fort Worth. None of the top-tier candidates competed.Actor and former senator Fred Thompson came in second with 266 votes and Texas Congressman Ron Paul got 217.
The whole story is at the link above. This was a big disappointment for Paul, who thought to use the under-the-radar aspect of this straw poll to gain more attention. Unfortunately for him, only party activists who have been delegates or alternates to recent conventions were allowed to vote, leaving his vast army of anarchist potheads wandering around outside checking cow patties for mushrooms.
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Comments (9)
You know, the real reason R... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Way to go | September 3, 2007 3:55 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
You know, the real reason Ron Paul came in third was because one last bus-load of delegates were not allowed to enter. He would have beat Fred Thompson that way.
1. Posted by Way to go | September 3, 2007 3:55 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on September 3, 2007 15:55
2. Posted by Jim Addison | September 3, 2007 4:58 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Wow, and I thought it was because of voting fraud.
But I guess one excuse is as good as another . . .
2. Posted by Jim Addison | September 3, 2007 4:58 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on September 3, 2007 16:58
3. Posted by John in CA | September 3, 2007 7:08 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Jim, that's hilarious.
Despite this not being a big time straw poll event and the disappointing turn out, I'm glad Duncan Hunter got some love.
3. Posted by John in CA | September 3, 2007 7:08 PM |
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Posted on September 3, 2007 19:08
4. Posted by bryanD | September 3, 2007 10:11 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Since the voters were all actual Texas GOP delegates and alternates, this is more than a little interesting and reinforces my hunch that the Moonman and the Ghoul are media-assigned "top tier" by the beltway gaggle due to their open-borders internationalism and their sitting duck potential in the the general election.
Catholic, Mormon, Hillary eat!
4. Posted by bryanD | September 3, 2007 10:11 PM |
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Posted on September 3, 2007 22:11
5. Posted by Drago | September 3, 2007 10:13 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted by Way to go | September 3, 2007 3:55 PM |
Uh, sure way to go. Why, in his very own home state, Ron Paul was somehow, SOMEHOW, kept from the victory that he so richly deserves as "The One True American Who Could Rebuild All That Has Been Lost."
Sheesh! Where do these Ron Paul morons come from?
5. Posted by Drago | September 3, 2007 10:13 PM |
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Posted on September 3, 2007 22:13
6. Posted by Drago | September 3, 2007 10:14 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Poor BryanD. Been reading Pravda again?
6. Posted by Drago | September 3, 2007 10:14 PM |
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Posted on September 3, 2007 22:14
7. Posted by kim | September 4, 2007 7:40 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
bD, note the typical inconsistency in the last sentence of your first paragraph. So are the 'beltway gaggle' fer 'em, or agin 'em?
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7. Posted by kim | September 4, 2007 7:40 AM |
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Posted on September 4, 2007 07:40
8. Posted by kim | September 4, 2007 9:57 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Oh, I understand; like Kerry's sort of internationalism?
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8. Posted by kim | September 4, 2007 9:57 AM |
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Posted on September 4, 2007 09:57
9. Posted by bryanD | September 4, 2007 10:28 AM | Score: -3 (3 votes cast)
"Sheesh! Where do these Ron Paul morons come from?-dragon person"
Apparently from within the Bushian GOP delegate rolls in Texas. Vox Populi.
"So are the 'beltway gaggle' fer 'em, or agin 'em?=kim="
I see. Yes, the beltway gaggle (framed media and their Wall St and RNC sponsors) are fer 'em. The rank and file GOP smells dirty laundry. Sees skid marks.
Terminally-ill lobbyist who stutters without script, Chief Dog On Roof Go Poop, and the guy who has already ducked Hillary once before. They're sitting ducks.
Tancredo, Hunter, or Paul are better candidates, but since they're independent-minded/non-chickenhawks, they make the RNC lavender marshmallows feel bad about their own general worthlessness as Americans. Not to mention the pissing into the RNC open borders picnic basket.
That last is key!
9. Posted by bryanD | September 4, 2007 10:28 AM |
Score: -3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on September 4, 2007 10:28