Romney, Gingrich, Santorum to be keynote speakers but Paul absent.

Despite winning the event’s annual straw poll for the last two years running, Ron Paul has seemingly been excluded from this year’s CPAC conference, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich announced as keynote speakers but Paul appearing nowhere on the roster.

The exclusion of Paul is likely a maneuver by GOP insiders to re-align CPAC, the biggest annual conservative confab, with the Republican establishment and prevent an embarrassing straw poll defeat for likely presidential pick Mitt Romney, who Paul beat in 2010 and 2011.

This petition is an effort to tell those at the top that the GOP cannot win against President Obama without the votes of Ron Paul supporters and that the message of freedom and liberty will not go away.