Thread: TEA PARTY, RAND PAUL STOMP ESTABLISHMENT IN MAINE GOP CONVENTION STRAW POLL

TEA PARTY, RAND PAUL STOMP ESTABLISHMENT IN MAINE GOP CONVENTION STRAW POLL



by MATTHEW BOYLE 27 Apr 2014 778 POST A COMMENT

Sen. Rand Paul stopped by Boston Herald radio to discuss the future of the Republican Party.







Video at the Page Link;

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) easily swept a straw poll of 2016 GOP contenders at the Maine GOP convention this weekend, securing nearly a hundred votes more than the next best potential presidential candidate.

Paul topped the field with 176 votes out of 690 cast, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) finishing second with 98 votes. Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker rounded out the top three vote-getters in the straw poll with 70 votes, while Dr. Ben Carson placed fourth with 62 votes.
Establishment Republicans like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) couldn’t even break the top four in the Maine GOP straw poll. Christie placed fifth with 60 votes, Bush sixth with 57 votes, and Ryan seventh with 37. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) all received fewer than 30 votes.
The Maine GOP convention occurred in Bangor, Maine, on Saturday, with more than 1,500 GOP activists attending.
Despite Paul, Cruz, Walker, and Carson's topping all GOP establishment potential candidates in the Maine GOP straw poll, the state has elected what the American Conservative Union (ACU) has rated the most liberal Republican in the U.S. Senate in Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Even so, Maine elected a Tea Party-backed GOP governor in Paul LePage.
During Rand Paul's speech, according to aides of his, he was warmly received, and multiple standing ovations interrupted him. “This doesn't look like division to me. I see unity, and I smell victory,” Paul said in the speech.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ion-straw-poll

More Than Half Believe Neither Party Is For The People

April 25, 2014 by Ben Bullard

THINKSTOCK

As the polling season heats up, most political polls focus on candidates vying for Congressional seats by jockeying for voters’ favor within the established two-party system. Yet when asked how they feel about the very system that yields America’s perennial crop of ruling-class leaders, a majority of voters lacks faith in either party.
A Rasmussen poll released Thursday finds that 53 percent of likely voters feel that neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party reflects the values and goals of most Americans.
In response to the poll question — “Is it fair to say that neither party in Congress is the party of the American people?” — 53 percent agreed, 28 percent disagreed and 19 percent said they weren’t sure.
The number of people who disagreed has risen over the past six months, when a similar Rasmussen poll found that 47 percent of likely voters held the same belief. It also matches the ongoing poll’s all-time high, back in June 2012 (another election year).
There aren’t a lot of demographic takeaways from this poll, but Rasmussen does point out:

Generally speaking, the younger the voter, the more likely he or she is to believe that neither party represents the American people. Men are more skeptical than women. Blacks are less doubting than whites and other minority voters are.

Taken with similar recently culled data, Thursday’s poll reveals an ongoing trend of greater dissatisfaction and disconnect on the part of GOP voters, who feel their leadership is particularly out of touch.
An April 11 poll found that 59 percent of Republican voters do not feel that the party’s Congressional representation faithfully reflects the views of the party’s base — even as Democratic voters continued to demonstrate relative satisfaction with their Congressional leadership.
That survey also found that only 29 percent of Republican voters strongly approved of the way Congressional GOP leaders had represented their constituents.

http://personalliberty.com/half-beli...-party-people/

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. . . He goes to a La Raza group and he talks about how we need illegal aliens and we have to give jobs to illegal aliens." . . .

Both parties have morphed into one party, the DC Party and that is party Time with our money, beyond 8 years they all become useless to America, it's the good old boys club, term limits is the only answer.

It is very disturbing to see Rand Paul win a GOP straw poll over more consistent conservatives like Ted Cruz. Jeff Sessions is not even on the ballot. With their “good amnesty”delusions, libertarians are working at cross purposes to us, distracting and neutralizing many ill informed consercatives who should be our unsolicited allies and fighting in the trenches with us.

To gain our support Mr. Paul needs to apologize for his smart mouth sarcasm against those have the impudence to think that illegal aliens should go home. He needs to stop it with his naïve “Trust but Verify” (a “good amnesty”) proposal. He needs to come out and unequivocally state that, “Illegal aliens must go home, and it can be done humanely by ‘turning offthe magnet’ so-called ‘self deportation.’”

Listen up libertarians, if you want our support, that is our non negotiable demand. It’s called a coalition; i.e. we support your people if they will support our priority issue. We can compromise on the smaller things.

If you persist in shoving an intractable Mr. Paul, we will never support him. We will do what you have been doing to us; we will work at cross purposes to you or withhold our help.

We understand, as you refuse to do, that amnesty is the hard left’s ultimate weapon to destroy all things American, conservative, libertarian. We can never accept any politician who is so naïve that he does not understand that.

Originally Posted by ;1408836

TEA PARTY, RAND PAUL STOMP ESTABLISHMENT IN MAINE GOP CONVENTION STRAW POLL

You mean the Rand Paul who was pimping for the establishment senator from Maine named Susan Collins over the weekend? Not to mention Mitch McConnell, another establishment republican.

He better enjoy those straw poll victories, because, like his father, they will be all he wins.