Posted on 11/06/2012 9:51:53 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
Once more, with feeling....
check my tagline. ;o)
certainly possible and given the closeness
On this day this we should start seriously a new party. Not later. On this day.
“Maybe if the GOP hadn’t kicked it’s libertarian brothers in the teeth on a consistent basis, we could have won this thing, even with rat voter fraud.”
I never got the idea that Libertarians were Republicans. When did that happen? I thought Libertarians were uh...Libertarians.
They can move to Colorado now and smoke all the maryjane they want legally. The open borders have been operating well and efficiently...lots of illegal aliens here.
Maybe, when the US economy falls into the dust, Libertarians can clean it up. They don’t need Repubs for anything. Life is good for the Libertarian Party.
If the American people are stupid enough to do this twice, egos like Johnson and Goode don’t matter. I’m done with it.
>>As noted Libertarian vote was > margin of victory.
Except that it wasn’t.
Go look at the numbers.
Well, I'm not the best to say, as I don't have a lot of experience or anything... but I can tell you why I didn't vote for Romney: in 2008 I held my nose and voted for McCain, after returning from a deployment overseas -- it was then that I found myself stunned/concerned that he might not be a citizen, but the more disturbing thing was that the people in authority turned a blind eye to it (I mentioned to a sergeant that if it turned out he was not Constitutionally qualified the Army would be duty-bound to remove him from office by our own oaths to the Constitution; I received a "shut up private" from him).
In the interim I began to get [more] interested in firearms and in the [New Mexico State] Constitution, only to come across a State Statute (NMSA 30-7-2.4) which was obviously contra-constitutional; I tried to ask those in authority about the inconsistency and only got either redirected (go talk to the IG/state-rep/supreme-court/lawyer) or the statute was justified with other violations of the Constitution such as prohibiting firearms in municipal or county courthouses [the Constitution is prohibitive of municipalities or counties regulating arms "in any way"]. {I finally dropped it in favor of graduating and job-hunting.} But this was a real eye-opener in how the government could, and did, utterly ignore their Constitution -- and when I got involved in investigating a similar situation in SD I found it elaborated, to the point that I now know that I can only challenge some statute as contra-constitutional after breaking it and being forced to argue from the position of weakness: the accused.
Thus I learned the fundamental thought echoing in all levels of government (and any association touching government):
You don't matter, even if you have the law unquestionably on your side you don't matter, because law doesn't matter: we define law as we wish. We are power, and you are utterly subservient thereunto.
And it's from that that I lead back to Romney: Romney is the GOP-E foisting a candidate on everyone else (you don't matter), changing the party's elector-rules to Romney's advantage (they don't matter), having a bus of delegates hostile to Romney conveniently miss important votes because they passed the convention (justness doesn't matter). -- And then there's Romney's record (history doesn't matter), it's seriously surprising how virtually overnight many here suddenly became Romny-will-save-us enthusiasts (principles don't matter), how Romney became Conservative Superman overnight (reality doesn't matter). -- Those who said that the GOP would hold his feet to the fire forgot though that the GOP has done virtually nothing concerning the State Sponsored Terrorism that is Fast & Furious; they've done virtually nothing in slapping him down because of unauthorized military action [remember KMA?], moreover the party has done so astoundingly little in pursuing their stated goals [in the past 10 or so years I've been politically aware to any degree] it's amazing to me that they get any votes.
So, there's nothing about Romney that I could vote for, his only good point was "he's not the other guy."
PS -- That last paragraph, should be read with a nice sarcastic bite on most of those mono-spaced parentheticals.
I never said that the votes for Johnson were greater than the overall margin of victory. I contend that the political capital squandered on SB5 is what really put Ohio out of our grasp. Ohio elected Kasich in a landslide in 2010. Then, he immediately went after unions and was rebuked in a 2011 referendum vote. That 2011 referendum vote was the harbinger of our doom in 2012. In two short years, we went from strong momentum in Ohio to getting our asses handed to us in Ohio. Then there was the whole Akin/Mourdock business that really sealed the deal with independents and moderates. Romney’s own words didn’t help him either. Nope, we played a shi**y game and got spanked for it. spanked black and blue. We’ll be feeling it for a long time.
You were more of a cc: on that.
I wish FR had an explicit cc: addressing function.
No you didn't hit a nerve. Not that is any of your damn business, but I voted for Romney. Unlike you I'm not so monumentally stupid as to blame the miniscule Libertarian party for 0's win when it is obvious to everyone except cry babies such as yourself that DEMOCRATIC VOTERS re-elected the magic black man - as I predicted they would. The simple truth is that takers outnumber the makers. Your need to up your medication, you've obviously suffered a break from reality.
You have caused me to expand my category of people not worth talking to to include delusional idiots who think the republicans lost because of the libertarians.
+1
I like the ring of The American Ammo Party.
It's just antagonistic enough to provoke knee-jerk reactions.
Interesting you don’t call me names to my face, you keyboard coward.
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