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At the annual CPAC convention in Washington DC, Ron Paul beat out Mass. Governer Mitt Romney as the attendees' choice for best candidate for President.  Paul, with 31%, and Romney with 22%.

Traditional conservatives are STARTING to understand that the people they're supposed to represent are PISSED OFF about big government, regardless of which side of the isle it comes from, but some of the old-timey "RINO"  (Republican in Name Only) establishment, in an attempt to maintain control, keep bringing up "How can we be for Paul?  He opposes the wars?!  Doesn't he believe in protecting our nation?!"

We can't be fooled by this misdirection:

Ron Paul's fundamental guiding vision is the Constitution.  There are a LOT of things that our government today is doing that is OUTSIDE the scope of their Constitutional power.  I think we ALL agree on this, and this is why Paul has a lot of support, but a lot has been made of Ron Paul's non-support of the current "wars" AS THEY ARE BEING WAGED in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

I emphasize "as they are being waged" because constitutionally, we are NOT in a war.  We have engaged AGAIN (because we repeat the history we dont study) in an undeclared war, which has brought NO END of problems such as whether prisoners of that war are actually POWs, enemy combatants, or common street thugs who steal airplanes.  Do they have rights?  Well, we're not in a war, so perhaps they do..  We've encumbered ourselves with our own legal problems just figuring out how to wage this "war" because we didn't play by our own well documented rules...

Additionally, without a declared war, there is no specific enemy, which has lead to American citizens being forced to give up rights, with no reasonable hope of getting them back, because you can't "end" a war that never began.  Worse yet, there's no clear definition of victory, because we haven't "declared" war on a specific enemy. 

"WAR", or at least how we enter a war, is defined in the Constitution, and we have forgotten that fact.  Ron Paul would have forced the issue, and we'd either be in a war, for real, and to win, or NOT.  We would have no middle ground, wishy-washy, non-committed "war" that we're in now.

Ron Paul, as president, would also understand however that if he got elected president that you can't just walk away from the reality that he inherited.  We've engaged an enemy and they're mad.  We've poked the beehive, and now we've got to kill the bees, or we're going to get stung ALL OVER.  And, there is no stronger constitutionally defined role for the federal government than the nation's defense, so there's no reason to believe that Paul wouldn't engage appropriately until the war can be won. 

NOBODY [except the Dems] are suggesting a unilateral withdrawl of troops on a timeline regardless of the consequences.  The difference is that Ron Paul will do it in accordance with the Constitution, instead of making up the rules as he goes along.

At the CPAC, I believe there were two distinct groups... The newly awakend, REAL pro small government group, who are comprised of, among other things, "Tea Partiers", "Moderates", "Independants", and "pissed-off soccer moms", and then there are the old-time establishment Republicans, who think that THEY are winning, just because they have the Dems as a common enemy with the Tea partiers.  What they are STILL not understanding, is that the WE THE PEOPLE have awakend, and we're not looking for old-style Republicans any more than we're looking for Obamacare.  That's why McCain is in trouble in Arizona, with his "pass something instead of standing up for principals" as demonstrated by the unconstitutional McCain/Feingold bill, and it's why Cheney isn't a viable candidate - He's too close to big spender Bush and all the oil companies and the no-bid contracts.   The time is done for career politicians with no experience managing their own lives and businesses.  They represents the past. 

The future is represented by Ron Paul, Scott Brown, and those others, who we probably haven't even heard of, but who have awakened and are answering the call to serve their country honorably, just as the founders intended, and then go back to their successful businesses and jobs when their time is done.  NO MORE CAREER POLITICIANS.  Prove you can do something for yourself, THEN help others..

The Republicans need the Independants more than the Independants need the Republicans, so the Republicans better start listening, and get some new leadership and that "cold water in the face" as Glenn Beck said so well!!