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It’s Already Ron Paul’s Fault if Mitt Romney Loses
Thu, 08/16/2012 - 11:45am | posted by Ron Davis
The other day I had a brief Facebook exchange with a friend (who really is a great guy) about Ron Paul. He had posted an image that basically said Ron Paul was the next Ross Perot, and that anyone voting for Paul in November would be actually casting a vote for Obama.
There are all sorts of problems with that. First, Paul isn’t going to be on a ballot in November, so nobody will be voting for him. (Yes, I know he could be a write-in vote, if non-qualified write-in votes are allowed in a state.)
Second, the notion that Perot cost Bush the presidency is commonly argued, but the polling for that race indicated Perot took more votes from Clinton than he did from Bush. If anything, Perot kept it from being a landslide victory for Clinton. But that won’t keep your Republican friends from pointing fingers and calling names.
And finally, let’s not forget that we balanced the budget under Clinton. He wasn’t the perfect president at all, but if my vote in November – for anybody – could guarantee a balanced budget in the next few years, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Our fiscal issues have to be addressed right away if we have any hope of solving our economic woes.
But I digress. The point in all of that was that people are already blaming a man who’s not even on the ballot for a Republican loss in 2012. Then today I saw this piece that talks about how the national GOP is working to keep Paul supporters out of the convention. Keep in mind that these aren’t random supporters who decide to take a road trip to Tampa. These are delegates and alternates that have gone through the delegate process in their states.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. The GOP’s attempts to silence these guys is not going to go well. I believe these Paul supporters are way louder and way more obnoxious than they’ve been given credit for. In order to have a smooth convention, the GOP needs to play by the rules. Of course, if they don’t play fairly, and if (when) the Ron Paul people go crazy over it, Dr. Paul will be blamed for the distraction.
The thing that I don’t understand in all of this is that the GOP needs the Paul voters to win. I’ve even had this admitted to me by some of my warmongering, big government Republican friends. The GOP can’t win without the libertarian arm of the party.
Attempts to push out the libertarian voice, combined with the quality of a candidate the Libertarian Party has in Gary Johnson this year, will send would-be Republicans to vote elsewhere. It’s not like libertarian Republicans don’t have a great non-Romney option on the ballot in November.
Despite what anyone might want you to believe, if the Republicans lose this year, it won’t be Ron Paul’s fault. It won’t be Gary Johnson’s fault, either. It’ll be their own fault. And if that happens, maybe the GOP will learn from its mistakes and embrace would-be supporters in 2016.
Or maybe they’ll still be blaming the principled fiscal conservatives for sending our country to hell in a handbasket.
Voting is stupid. By doing so, one implicitly endorses a morally corrupt system.
Vote fraud against Dr. Paul, yet another violation of our rights. The gov’t constantly violates our rights.
They violate the 1st Amendment by caging protesters and banning books like “America Deceived II”.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by allowing TSA to grope you.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars.
Impeach Obama, support Ron Paul.
Last link of “America Deceived II” before it is completely banned:
http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/14…
NOBP
I will give the Libertarian Party credit for actually nominating a libertarian this time.
Romney and Obama both support the Project for the New American Century and the Foreign Policy Initiative, the think-tank which promotes: diplomatic, economic, and military engagement IN THE WORLD! Iraq was ALL lies. Iran doesn’t even have WMD’s, they want to bomb them for FUTURE weapons. Israel assassinated all of Iran’s nuclear scientists, and the US infected their computers with the Stuxnet virus which destroyed all of their equipment. Obama started an unconstitutional war in Libya. And, the US is funding Al Qaeda, which was created by the US government, in Syria as the opposition. Why has Obama bombed: Yemen, Sudan, Uganda, Pakistan, Congo, and Somalia? Obama had American citizens assassinated without due process, and ZERO proof. We are fighting wars for global domination, and Romney will continue the agenda, he named his foreign policy plan An American Century.
I am voting for Ron Paul! War is a racket! They are murdering people in OUR names!
Can we change this to “Ron Paul already credited with Romney defeat”? “Fault” makes it sound like a bad thing ;).
Now, if he can just make sure Obama is defeated *as well*, we’ll be getting somewhere. He is just one man, though. Perhaps if enough of us helped him with that…
Freedom, Prosperity and Peace NEVER lose, if we practice and preach…
We all know both parties are INFECTED!
What are we to do?
Have we try Free market, Individual Liberty and Constitutional/Sound servent aka the government?
The GOP must be reminded about the Golden Rule. Now its our time to hit them back. We are the boss. ROn paul or bust! I dont care if Obama will be re-elected if I will support Ron pAul to the very end.
The Kool-aid chuggers over at DickMorris.com need to read this and seriously think about what this article says instead of jumping up and down and accusing Gary Johnson of making Romney lose the election. If Romney loses, it’s because Romney made Romney lose the election.
How many realists are blaming Romney for not being an adequate candidate? From the droid-like behavior, to the bully teenager history, the impersonating a police officer as an adult history (!), the trying to take a fancy horse as a 77K dollar business expense, and all the rest.
The Republican party said Romney was a done deal from the very beginning, then treated us to a sideshow circus act consisting of Cain, Perry, Bachmann, and the best two freak shows of all, t’Rump and Gingrich. Meanwhile, they studiously avoided even mentioning Johnson’s name and pretended he didn’t exist including not inviting him to all the debates and having Bachmann there at the first one, who hadn’t even declared yet.
Guess what Republican Party? You took the best candidate you had, with the best record, who would have totally STOMPED Obama, and you threw him to the curb.
Too damn bad he’ll ‘take votes away from’ Romney. You can start digging that bullet out of your foot now. Try using it next time to put the Republican Party out of it’s misery. It’s dead, dead, dead. Good Riddance.
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