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CPAC Straw Poll

February 12, 2012 by · Comments Off on CPAC Straw Poll 

CPAC Straw Poll, Mitt Romney is back in the lead — at least symbolically — of the topsy-turvy Republican nomination race, going two for two on Saturday.

He won the influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll here Saturday with 38% support to Rick Santorum’s 31%, and he beat Ron Paul in Maine to cinch that state’s non-binding caucuses.

Romney won in Maine with 39% support to Paul’s 36%.

“I thank the voters of Maine for their support,” Romney said in a statement Saturday night. “I’m committed to turning around America, and I’m heartened to have the support of so many good people in this great state.”

Both wins are largely symbolic, though, as Maine’s 21 delegates will be divvied up in May.

Paul, who campaigned harder in Maine than any other candidate hoping for his first win in the GOP primary, told supporters Saturday night he thinks he’ll get the majority of Maine’s delegates eventually, and vowed to stay in the race.

“It would have been great to win outright the straw vote, but it will be even greater to win the delegate vote,” he said. “We’re not going to go away. We’re going to be in all these places where we’ll continue to pick up delegates for one good reason — we have the message that America needs at this particular time.”

In the CPAC straw poll, Newt Gingrich finished third with 15%, and libertarian-leaning Paul finished last with 12%.

Neither Santorum nor Gingrich campaigned in Maine, and finished with 18% and 6% respectively.

Four years ago, Romney won the CPAC straw poll, but bowed out of the race and endorsed John McCain.

He also won the Maine caucuses in 2008 with more than 50% support. But with just over 5,000 people voting in Maine Saturday, less than 200 votes separated Romney and Paul.

CPAC 2011

February 11, 2011 by · Comments Off on CPAC 2011 

CPAC 2011, An eyebrow awareness, unscripted moment at the conference of conservative political action (CPAC) this afternoon in Washingtion. It was the former Vice-President Dick Cheney, who was not on the official calendar showing to introduce his old friend and colleague from the Bush administration official Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense. He was booed.

Andrew Breitbart said he was fed up with conservative social groups boycott CPAC on the inclusion of the gay Republican group GOProud and I wanted to do something. “I will be the most severe criticism of the gay activist left, which I fear more than al-Qaeda,” Breitbart said. “But these people do not exist in the two-party system, so you tell them they are not welcome in the big tent, I have a huge problem with that, and I will deliver my alt of 80’s, Depeche Mode, Cure, New Order ftish, and we’ll do a gay event a big ol ‘at CPAC. ”

Thus was born Big Party (a nod to the Big Government / Big Journalism / site Big Hollywood Breitbart Naming Convention), an invitation-only event, the 18th Street Lounge DC. He was co-sponsored by GOProud, including Chris Barron and Jimmy LaSalvia took a few hours of rest from media requests to party in the short-sleeved shirts, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, whose president Fred Smith donned a “Enjoy Capitalism” T-shirt under his blazer and the Poker Players Alliance, which became semi-controversial pillars CPAC *. This paid for a fully open bar and musical style of Sophie B. Hawkins.

A word about Sophie B. Hawkins. Michael Steele, who was chairman of the RNC until last month, came to the party and stayed for some time. Just before I went in an exchange seen by several people who described it to me, Steele met with Hawkins. She explained his political philosophy for him.

“I am not a conservative,” said Hawkins, “but I want to [expletive] Sarah Palin.”

Steele responded quickly. “Well, she is very attractive,” he said.

Depeche Mode was played and a fight nearly broke out between two people who were too drunk to explain why they fought on, some people are convinced that Dana Loesch, who wore leather pants, could not have taken Dana Loesch, because she wore leather pants. If it were more entertaining, Stephen Glass would have been.

More than 100 other organizations contribute in various ways. Human Events, the Foundation for America’s young, and the National Rifle Association were three co-sponsors the most prominent in recent years.

In another site, ExposeObama.com on February 7, 2011 posted Guest Writer Don Feder of GrassTopsUSA.com, one of my favorite conservative writers and have been since my first encounter with his column in the Boston Herald ago morethan 25 years. This last column is titled, “Gay, Grover, and false gods. Problems with CPAC 2011”

Again to quote Wikipedia, “CPAC was founded in 1973 by the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom. Over the years it has grown to thousands of participants each year.”

While America has become more conservative over the last two decades, CPAC has grown up with them including their flagship annual Conservative MPs
Event, speakers such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Pat Buchanan, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tony Snow, to name a few.

But in recent few years a large influx of younger, more idealistic and more to reach people other Conservatives have adopted that are inconsistent with clear many older, more hard-core conservatives mainly on the theme of homosexuality.

While newcomers continue to push for greater recognition and acceptance of gay marriage and even to the point of lobbying for the repeal of the federal government “Definition of Marriage Act,” most of the old stand-bys the organization were themselves and remove their support of the Conference. It’s not just the GOP proud group of homosexuals and their not very popular with the objectives Conservatives, but as Feder said: “The problem with CPAC can be summarized in six words – gay jerk libertarianism Groverknee and Islamist connections. “

Kourtney Kardashian: Scott Is My Partner | USsPost.com

February 21, 2010 by · Comments Off on Kourtney Kardashian: Scott Is My Partner | USsPost.com 

kourtney-kardashian-240Kourtney Kardashian: Scott Is My Partner | USsPost.com:According to People – With one smooch (and then another and another) in Vegas on Friday, Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Scott Disick put to rest rumors of the couple’s demise.

The pair have been under fire since reports surfaced that Disick, the father of Kardashian’s 9-week-old son, Mason, had been unfaithful. The rumors, Kardashian said, couldn’t be further from the truth.

When asked if she is laughing off the rumors, she told PEOPLE exclusively, “Yes, of course. You can’t take it too seriously.”

“Scott is my partner and we do everything together,” Kardashian said before entering Las Vegas’s Jet Nightclub.

And if they are in any kind of turmoil, you wouldn’t know it from their visit to the club, which was hosting a fashion show by Dash, the clothing store she owns with her sisters. After strolling in hand in hand and kissing for reporters, the couple headed to a VIP table. There, they were spotted smooching throughout the night while Disick continually touched Kardashian’s leg.

While in Vegas, Kardashian and Disick left Mason in the care of her family, but that didn’t stop the doting mother from keeping tabs on her son via her cell phone and picture messaging.

“I’m like, ‘What is he doing? What is he wearing? Send me pictures,’ ” she said. “I’ve only left him to go to dinner twice.”

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