Ron Paul’s followers are not voting for Obama. Not sure how Ron Paul would be responsible for those outcomes.
“Not sure how Ron Paul would be responsible for those outcomes.”
See my post #20. Translates into a few million voters, and we’ve got enough to overcome in this next race (could be close and there’ll be significant fraud) without something like that. Instead of running another losing race and spoiling a lot of votes, he should pick someone to endorse when the time comes - unless he, too, wants to see another 4 years of this deadly president. He either doesn’t get it or doesn’t give a damn what happens to the country.
You need to understand how libertarians are generally viewed on FR.
364 days a year, it's "You're all dopers. And smelly hippies. And baby killers. We hate you. God hates you. You suck. Keep your ideas out of our platform, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."
On the morning after election day, it's "Hey, how come you didn't vote for the candidate we wanted to win?"
Like it or not, we are a two party nation. While I'd like to see a third party rise and become as powerful, doing so right now is a disaster looking for an election to happen.
The country will never elect Ron Paul, anyone thinking he stands a chance is a fool.
Running third party candidates is drawing votes away from the GOP candidate. The Dems have their ducks in a row and stand behind Obama, just as Hillary's supporters who said the despised him did in 2008.
The Dems unify their people, get in line and vote.
We waste precious dollars promoting fringe candidates like Ron Paul and when they don't get the nomination they never stood a chance of getting, throw votes away or encourage followers to get behind other fringe candidates.
Whether McCain could have won or not is academic. Our vote was splintered.