Ron Paul would have been America's first libertarian President if the powerful alliance of state and corporations (especially corporate media) hadn't done everything they could to sabotage and marginalize him. That's ok though...try as they might, they can no longer sweep these powerful ideas back under the rug now that they're out and gaining almost viral popularity.
At this point, they can only try to forestall the inevitable. A free and voluntary society is coming. The only thing we can't predict with much certitude is whether we will transition painlessly and peaceably, in time to save the economy, or whether the reform will come after a series of painful lessons learned at the cruel hands of dictators, central planners, and kleptocrats.
Ron Paul Cuts Campaign: Could a Libertarian Ever Win?
SodaHead News
2012/05/15 18:46:25
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In a carefully worded statement sent out by Ron Paul's campaign chairman on Tuesday morning, the GOP candidate announced that he's... Well, he's not exactly dropping out of the race, but he is conceding defeat. Jesse Benton wrote, "Unfortunately, barring something very unforeseen, our delegate total will not be strong enough to win the nomination. However, our delegates can still make a major impact at the National Convention and beyond."
For many, Mitt Romney has been the winner for some time. While Paul had enormous public support and the potential to significantly impact voting, he hadn't been faring too well in caucuses and primaries, and only had 104 delegates to Romney's 966. But Benton says things could have played out differently if other candidates like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich had stayed it. As for Paul's new direction, his team is "doing everything in our power to work with out supporters." And for the record, he says it's "unlikely" he'll back Romney. Could someone like Ron Paul, just shy of a third party, ever hope to win?
For many, Mitt Romney has been the winner for some time. While Paul had enormous public support and the potential to significantly impact voting, he hadn't been faring too well in caucuses and primaries, and only had 104 delegates to Romney's 966. But Benton says things could have played out differently if other candidates like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich had stayed it. As for Paul's new direction, his team is "doing everything in our power to work with out supporters." And for the record, he says it's "unlikely" he'll back Romney. Could someone like Ron Paul, just shy of a third party, ever hope to win?
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the vote is a direct vote. in order to get the electoral votes you must win the state.
Once the party has a proven track record and notoriety, you can go for the big chair.
I'm no Obama or Romney fan. It's like 2008 all over again, not much to choose from.
Go Paul Go
Until libertarians can tell us what they're actually going to do to solve our problems, and not allow their ideology to justify that these problems continue to fester, it's hard to imagine that in our current state of crisis, that a large enough section of the general public will ever guarantee them an electoral victory.
Setting aside all the other things that government, quite seamlessly does, to make our lives better, easier and safer just consider all the things that you put in your mouth and swallow, every day, without a second thought. I doubt too many of you would go out into the world and simply put things you really know nothing about into your mouths and swallow them. Or allow your children to do that. Yet every day you drink water out of your tap, or you drink bottled water, and you go to the grocery store and buy meat and eggs and milk and produce and things in boxes and cans and bottles; you go to the drug store and get prescriptions filled and buy over the counter medications and put them in your mouths and swallow them without second thought. You go to a restaurant or a fast food place and order things and put that stuff right in your mouths and swallow it, without even thinking about it.
How can you do that? Why are you able to do that, without even a second thought, most of the time? Because of the i...
Setting aside all the other things that government, quite seamlessly does, to make our lives better, easier and safer just consider all the things that you put in your mouth and swallow, every day, without a second thought. I doubt too many of you would go out into the world and simply put things you really know nothing about into your mouths and swallow them. Or allow your children to do that. Yet every day you drink water out of your tap, or you drink bottled water, and you go to the grocery store and buy meat and eggs and milk and produce and things in boxes and cans and bottles; you go to the drug store and get prescriptions filled and buy over the counter medications and put them in your mouths and swallow them without second thought. You go to a restaurant or a fast food place and order things and put that stuff right in your mouths and swallow it, without even thinking about it.
How can you do that? Why are you able to do that, without even a second thought, most of the time? Because of the inherent goodness and decency of those people who manufacture and sell those things? In some cases, yes, possibly, but mostly you can do it because of government; because of laws and regulations that help to ensure the safety of the food and drugs we put into our bodies, including government inspections of production facilities and civil courts that allow us to sue when a company has been negligent and has harmed us.
Do you really want the markets to handle all that? How would that work? Company X has been selling meat or produce tainted with E. Coli and/or salmonella, you served it at a family dinner and now your elderly father and your toddler are dead. I guess you won't be sending anymore business their way and they will soon be bankrupt. It is not in the best interest of a company to sell defective products so they won't, I guess; that's how the market takes care of things.
I hope that's the world you want, if you're looking forward to Libertarianism, because that is the world you will most likely get. And you will get all that and more.
You get into your car and fasten your seat belt with a fair assumption that it, the airbags, and the crush zones will keep you alive if God forbid you hit something.
You call 9-1-1 with the assumption that a fire truck, ambulance, or police officer will arrive.
You drive on roads that are smooth and safe (seriously, Americans have no idea how good their roads are).
That's why I can never be a pure libertarian. They're right on some things, but wrong on a number of others.
Why anyone would waste their vote on a douche bag like Romney is beyond comprehension. I must be missing out because I don't see any "brilliant rays of light" streaming out of Romney's ass the way the neo-con's seem to.
As the uninformed voter continues to support the status quo, they send a clear message to Washington that our Constitution, its Laws and the value of liberty just don’t matter. The masters have heard this loud and clear by the voting habits of the average American. In return for the blind following they send us yet another wannabe liar-in-chief for the 2012 election, a possible shill, who is no different. NO DIFFERENT
Welcome to the NWO … we have one chance to turn it around and it won’t be done by waiting until 2016. We have to take the first real steps today. If Ron Paul isn’t on the ballot come November write him in or vote Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party. He is a good man with a good record. This just may be the most important decision of your life in taking this 1st step in restoring America; but the alternative is you may never get another chance to make one before your rights are completely gone.
Are we going to wait until “Freedom’s just another word when there is nothing left to lose”?
Voter fraud is running rampant ... will history be repeated?
Libertarianism DOES take into consideration that people ALWAYS act in their own self-interest, that is why it DOES work, in fact. There will always be people who initiate force, libetarianism allows for force in self-defense against these kinds of people. It also allows for removing such violent people from society or otherwise restraining them from further violations of people's unalieanble right to be left alone.
Anarchy is not violent or lawless chaos, btw, it simply means without a ruler. Thsoe violent people, dressed in black, wearing masks, breaking windows, and hurling rocks at people in protests, who claim to be anarchists, are not really anarchists, they are just violent people who have claimed a label for themselves that they do not understand and that does not fit their attitudes and actions.