Posted on 12/27/2007 6:02:59 AM PST by connell
If Ron Paul runs for the Constitution Party, and Cynthia McKinney or some other moonbat lib runs for the Green Party, they will surely mix it up with the GOP and the RAT candidates. Might get interesting.
LOL, ya gotta love this statement. I always thought a person was either reliable or wasn't. This is sort of like being "a little bit pregnant"
The Clinton’s always pick a kook from Texas to spike the election. All it takes is 3 or 4% to give them the win. No Clinton has ever won with a majority on their own. There’s enough contrarian Paulites out there to hand this one to Hillary as well. When will they ever learn?
Ok...so let’s change the direction of the discussion. How about you demonstrate you have thoughts of your own. Don’t tell me about what other Freepers have said. You tell me what impact Ron Paul’s running as a third party candidate will have on the election. Will Ron Paul win? Will Ron Paul draw his support (votes, not financial) from libertarians and conservatives or liberals?
“He’d do it for the same reason anyone does it ... to spark a viable 3rd party in the US to break up the stranglehold the 2 parties have on our electoral system.”
I don’t think he thinks that way. I think he and his supporters are so convinced that the Republican Party has become an evil thing that they believe they are doing historic, divine work in bringing it down. I don’t think they really think a viable third party is possible. They are just so enraged at the RINO wing of the Republican party. They believe that the Republicans have to be destroyed for the good of the country. For an interim, they fully realize, the Dhimmis will then be in charge, but they think in the long run, the destruction of the counterweight to the Dhimmis opens up possibilities for a “true conservative” party.
They are fools to think that, but they think it. They are fueled by the same revolutionary rage that brought down other wobbly systems—e.g., the French and Russian revolutions. So far, our system has not been wobbly enough to fall victim to them and it may well survive this attempt to destroy it. But as the populace becomes more and most sheeplistic and prone to demagogery, one of these election cycles the ragers may succeed.
I’m enraged at the RINOing of the Pubbies too, but I also understand that we have a two-party system, for good or ill. There was a time I hoped for a realignment that would create a different two parties (one truly liberal, one truly conservative), but I’ve given up on that. Both parties have, so far, successfully managed to straddle the libera/conservative lines—at least in public perception, though not in reality.
I don't hate Ron Paul. I just think voting for a guy who hangs with, helps and encourages Truthers has as much to do with conservatism aand libertarianism as socialized medicine does.
If these gullible holier-than-thous would forget their pie-in-the-sky dreams and join the rest of us, together we might be able to stop this creeping liberalism. The fact is, we must remain united. The numbers are not there, otherwise.
Yes it has. And unlike the Libertarian Party (both could run him as a candidate) the CP has enough nutball positions, the Constitution is based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we're a Christian country which in the past and present (no mention of future) has granted asylum to non-Christians, to keep his nutball supporters happy. And they're overtly anti-war, bring the troops home from everywhere now.
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A POPULAR third party candidate is needed for that to happen. The actual number of people that support him is inconsequential. He's not going to draw large numbers from the Republican party.
He and his 27 followers will make no difference.
“”I’m all ears.””
If Paul’s support is mostly from the left, as the supporters of most country-club candidates believe, then how can you, at the same time, call him a Perot like 3rd party candidacy?
In my opinion - Paul actually looks good against the top 3 candidate, Julie-annie, Flipp Romney, and the Huckster.
Flipp, Julie, and Snake Oil don’t deserve my unconditional vote! That attitude is what’s killed the party and gotten us crappy choices.
Yeah, the “anti-Paul forces” are really terrified of that...what is it, 3, 4% now?
My guess is that this article will get more posts than Ron gets votes. lol
Right! And I'm awaiting for Ron Paul's statement on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
I guess Ron Paul would do nothing while Pakistan's nukes get transferred to Al Qaeda.
Both supporters will probably vote for him.
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