{"id":12334,"date":"2014-03-10T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2014-03-10T00:18:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:18:11","slug":"who-won-the-cpuke-straw-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/who-won-the-cpuke-straw-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Won the CPUKE Straw Poll?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee), more accurately labeled CPUKE, conducts a straw poll to see whom the rabid Republican base would choose as President.  They virtually never actually do, thank goodness!  If you don\u2019t already know who this year\u2019s winner is, I\u2019ll give you three hints.  One, he is an idiot!  Two, he is the son of an idiot!!  Three, he is named after an idiot!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0310CPUKE\"With 31 percent of the vote, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) won the closely watched Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll this weekend<\/a>, dwarfing second place finisher Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s (R-TX) 11 percent of the vote. <\/p>\n

The son of libertarian icon and former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), Rand Paul has emerged as the nation\u2019s leading spokesperson for an anti-government philosophy that would undo nearly all the accomplishments of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Era. As a Senate candidate in 2010, Paul came out against the Civil Rights Act of 1964\u2032s bans on private discrimination \u2014 including the bans on employment discrimination and whites-only lunch counters \u2014 claiming that the right of \u201cprivate ownership\u201d should trump African Americans\u2019 and other minorities\u2019 right to be free from invidious discrimination<\/strong>. Permitting private discrimination, according to Paul, is \u201cthe hard part about believing in freedom<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor are Paul\u2019s libertarian views limited to his skepticism towards civil rights protections. In 2013, Paul endorsed a long-ago overruled Supreme Court decision called Lochner v. New York. The Court\u2019s Lochner opinion relied on a fabricated \u201cright to contract\u201d that it and subsequent cases used to strike down various laws protecting workers from exploitative employers \u2014 on the idea that if a worker signs a contract that forces them to work 16 hours a day for barely subsistence wages then it would somehow violate the worker\u2019s rights to pay them more money for fewer hours work\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not at all surprised at his victory.  After all, this IS CPUKE, so there are no sane alternatives.  Consider the runner up.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year, CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee), more accurately labeled CPUKE, conducts a straw poll to see whom the rabid Republican base would choose as President.  They virtually never actually do, thank goodness!  If you don\u2019t already know who this year\u2019s winner is, I\u2019ll give you three hints.  One, he is an idiot!  Two, he […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}