Ron Paul takes CPAC Straw Poll with 31%

In past years Fox News would get all excited and triumphant when Mitt Romney had taken the CPAC straw poll from 2007-2009. However, they sing a different tune when Dr. Ron Paul, 11-term congressman from Texas wins it. Oh no no, can't have that, the poll means nothing now. Their argument is that Romney didn't win the nomination when he won CPAC, but they didn't say that last year when Romney won it.

I think something that should be noted is that many people are waking up to the "paleo-conservative" movement, and that the convservative movement is being changed into some far greater than what neo-conservativism was making it into. It's something called neo-liberalism or classical liberalism. Ron Paul was inspired by the people who reignited the classical liberal movement (Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard, etc.).

What does this poll mean? Not a whole lot, except that the conservative base is either changing to Pro-Ron Paul (like when you see Ann Coulter say that she agrees with everything he says except on Foreign Policy) or it is simply growing with so-called "Paulites" becoming conservatives. I'd say it's both and either way it's great news. Who would have thought any of these scenarios would have been possible just three years ago?

However, I do think there is truth in what Dr. Paul says, when he says that this country isn't going to change until the debt forces us to change. That's the unfortunate part about living in a Fascist Republic rather than a Constitutional Republic, which do you want?