Posted on 01/19/2012 3:21:11 PM PST by mnehring
Ron Paul's biggest obstacle in Florida isn't one of his GOP competitors; it's the structure of the primary itself...
..It seems Ron Paul's ceiling of support has expanded to include independent and even liberal voters...
..Smith says the structure of the Republican primary in Florida is focused less on voters moved to participate in the final hours of a primary and more geared toward the consistent, socially conservative constituency within the party.
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According to RINOthink, that makes him the Most Electable Candidate, and we'd be crazy to support anybody else.
Socially conservative? Florida? Anyone who thinks that anybody other than Romney has a shot down there is on drugs.
Expanded? That would require that it included non-liberals in the first place.
Yup these are the Rubio voters.
The left would love to have Ron “Lyndon Larouche” Paul dictate part of the Republican platform for 2012 and would love to have Romney as the Republican candidate.
I hate “open” primaries and caucuses because it prevents the people who belong to Party A from being the people who choose the candidate for Party A. For example, in New Hampshire there was a Democrat primary, but there was no serious candidate running to oppose Obama. That allowed Democrats to register as independents and then vote in the Republican primary.
That’s why I’m saying let Ron Paul run 3rd party. 50% of his people are liberals.
Liberals want small honest constitutional government? Wow, who knew? Go liberals!
>>”That’s why I’m saying let Ron Paul run 3rd party. 50% of his people are liberals.
>Liberals want small honest constitutional government? Wow, who knew? Go liberals!
No, they are 9/11 truthers (Ron Paul camp), vehemently anti-war/anti-military (Ron Paul camp), and anti-fed/banks (Ron Paul camp).
A lot of these people are former Obama voters and/or Alex Jones liberals. Paul still cant get anywhere close to 25% of Republicans even with an OPEN primary.
Even liberal voters? Mostly liberal voters.
Damn I was hoping someone left in the USA other then the Paul people were interested in small honest constitutional government. What a disappointment.
>>50% my a$$. Much more like 99.99%. Only an anti-American liberal could support someone who blames America for every problem in the world.
>>I agree though. Let him run 3rd party. It would be a dream come true for whoever the Republican candidate was. The surrender monkey would take all the votes from the far left who think Obummer is too conservative, but would vote for him before any Republican.
>>His supporters would never vote for anyone who is on America’s side in the war on terror.
Here’s the even better thing - if Ron Paul runs third party the democrat party will lose ALL of their coattails. I’ve said this numerous times, but all those kids that I taught in highschool that wished they could vote for Obama, they are ALL ready to vote for Ron Paul. The rest of Obama’s base (except for the liberal white idiots) are lacking enthusiasm to the point that they just won’t vote.
Either way, Obama is going to be BURNT TOAST - he only won by 52% in 2008.
Gingrich will win bigger here than in SC.
Registered democrats or independants cannot vote in the Florida republican primary. Only the registered republicans can vote in the republican primary in FL.
This not allowing dems and libs to vote does not do well with the surrender monkey. It must be unconstitutional. Anything Cut and Run does not agree with is constitutional.
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