Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, with 30 percent of the vote. Romney placed second with 23%.
Next came a bunch of also ran's, including former Governors Gary Johnson of New Mexico and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie way back at 6 percent of the vote, and then Newt Gingrich with 5 percent.
A group at 4 percent or less included, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels, and former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, among others.
As I went through the names the point that struck me was, there's no clear individual I can see who isn't some form of same old, same old, but worse than that for Republicans there's no one I think likely to beat the incumbent president. And that's not only remarkable, in a way its a tragic, because the country's in critical need of competent leadership and there's not one in the preceding bunch that stands out in any way.
Then again, there's the possible exception of Chris Christie, who seems to be doing quite a good job in his state, but the rest are clearly a bunch of continually recycling hacks saddled down with all kinds of biased political baggage.
So, I guess it boils down to politics as usual, where an incompetent incumbent has done a miserable job, yet those trying to unseat him are worse. And that's really hard to fathom. Because if these folks were in the real world, and trying to run a business -they'd be broke, gone, done and finished in less time than it took to type today's entry.
That's it for today folks.
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