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The inaugural meeting of Conservatives and Libertarians United for Beer (CLUB) convened Saturday night at Murphy's Pub, as William Upton of The American Conservative reports:
Robert Stacy McCain was everywhere at CPAC and caught a photo of me at David Frum's happy hour Saturday night (I was there for the same reason Stacy was... free beer). All I can say is that Frum's party was populated by many Ron Paul supporters but we held back rubbing in Paul's straw poll victory out of respect for Frum giving out free beer. It felt good to be able to walk around a neocon party and be surrounded by libertarians not neocons. . . .
American Spectator readers will notice that Matt Vadum was present at the inception of CLUB, standing in front of Upton, who is wearing a fedora:
Speaking of conservatives and libertarians, there's been quite a bit of fallout over Ron Paul winning the CPAC straw poll, a surprise result that Jim Antle wrote about today. The straw poll inspired Mike Huckabee's denunciation of CPAC, which was rather convenient, if not downright opportunistic. I've suggested that a new CPAC award be named in honor of Huckabee.
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CalMark| 2.22.10 @ 7:39PM
All this gloating by the Ron Paulistas.
It's depressing.
If Ron Paul is the GOP nominee in 2012, for the first time in my adult life, I will stay home. Two fringe candidates in a row: nasty RINO crank, 2008; and the libertarian isolationist crank in 2012.
Any party that nominates fringe candidates twice in a row deserves to go belly up. For that matter, any country whose major parties can only field increasingly virulent radicals (Democrat) and cranks (Republicans) also deserves oblivion.
MacAoidh| 2.23.10 @ 1:14AM
Let's not forget that out of some 10,000 attendees at CPAC, Paul actually received all of 740 votes in the straw poll. It's not like he has broad-based support.
Floyd Looney| 2.22.10 @ 7:42PM
Ron Paul & GOProud.... the next 3% thang.
Maire| 2.22.10 @ 8:36PM
Close the Republican primaries. My first knowledge of the damage caused by open primaries was the reporting from New Hampshire Republican primary - reporting on who the Democrats and Independents had voted for!!
So, job one for Republicans is to close their primaries. Why this has not been mentioned in any significant way on any web sites or at CPAC is a mystery to me.
Cris Worth| 2.23.10 @ 4:16AM
Mike Huckabee is a decent man and an eloquent speaker but his release of habitual violent criminals as governor of Arkansas irreparably damaged him politically. Dead cops in Washington State eliminates him from further Presidential consideration.
JimH| 2.23.10 @ 7:50AM
Huckabee is not a conservative as I understand the term Neither Paler or Neo. He is more in the way of a socialy conservative populist.
Derek Leaberry| 2.23.10 @ 9:20AM
Any conservative event that leads off with a standing ovation for a failed vice-president is probably one that has not learned why it was rejected at the polls in 2006 and 2008. On top of that, Dick Cheney's support for homosexual marriage and homosexuals in the military is a slap in the face of social conservatives. Cheney is a six lettered word for doom.
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