Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.He'll have to run as a third party candiate. There's no way in hell the liberal GOP will nominate him.
Wrong on the issues:
Opposes capital punishment
Voted against the Patriot Act
An isolationist like Pat Buchanan
Thinks the Iraq war was to curtain civil liberties
No thanks.
I'm glad that Ron Paul has been able to get and keep himself elected.
But most of the LP is absolutely looney tunes.
If you really want to lose, nominate Paul. Do it for Paul! Do it for Paul!!
What is Ron Paul's plan for Social Security and Medicare?
Ron Paul for President. Accept no substitutes.
If he ends up not running, I'm writing him in.
I can't get onboard with someone who believes that we should wait to be nuked before offering a "proportional" response. Battles can't be won by playing tit for tat against an enemy with no borders.
why doesn't Ron run as a Republican? he runs as a republican for his house seat!
Reckon ol' Paul will honor his term limit pledge from years past?...... I doubt it since he came back to the gov't tit.
Libertarians suffer at the polls because they overstate their case. They need to learn that those who demand everything up front seldom get what they want, and those who use gradualism to achieve their ends usually get a lot of what they want.
So Libertarians should pick a top 10 list of relatively small changes that are tremendously popular with the public.
It worked very well with the Contract with America, for the reason that it succinctly said, "This is what we will do." People understood it, it made sense.
No hedging, no waffling, just easy to understand straight talk.
Make it clear that even if Libertarians win, they will still by far be the minority. So they don't take issues to Washington that they *demand*, or will try to *force*. Instead take issues that Libertarians can *persuade* the other political parties to pass.
For example, right now, many of the security efforts that were implemented at the start of 911 are becoming unpopular.
The Libertarians could latch on to this and say "Elect us and we will try to convince the democrats and republicans to discard lots of these unnecessary and oppressive laws."
Be loud and clear that the Libertarians, if not centrists, can effectively be the in the center between the two major parties: to become the SWING vote. And that is a position of real power.
With as few as 15-20 seats in the House of Representatives, and 3-4 Senators, the Libertarians could completely reshape the direction of the country.
They could bargain with both parties for over-representation in committees, in exchange for their votes, and even start to take presidential cabinet posts.
It would break up the political bi-opoly that has dominated our landscape for too long.
Convey this to the people. Let them know that if they elect a Libertarian candidate, their State could become far more powerful than it is, with minor democrat and republican representatives.
Finally, since there are always weak office holders, the Libertarians should develop a pool of strong candidates to run against the major parties weak ones. Then the national party should invest much of its resources on these small wins.
Remember, they only need a small number of seats to really matter, so this is the way to go. Don't start by running a strong presidential candidate, start by electing dog catchers.