Posted on 11/11/2012 5:29:55 PM PST by Renfield
America is over $16 trillion in debt. The “official” unemployment rate still hovers around 8%.
Our federal government claims the right to spy on American citizens, indefinitely detain them, and even assassinate them without trial.
Domestic drones fly over the country for civilian surveillance.
Twelve million fewer Americans voted in 2012 than in 2008, yet political pundits scratch their heads.
It’s not hard to see why, though.
To go along with endorsing a never-ending policy of bailouts, “stimulus packages,” and foreign military adventurism, the establishment of neither major party questions the assaults on Americans’ liberties I’ve named above.
As my campaign showed, the American people are fed up. Many realized heading into Tuesday that regardless of who won the presidential election, the status quo would be the real victor.
GOP leadership is now questioning why they didn’t perform better.
They’re looking at demographic changes in the United States and implying minorities can only be brought into the party by loudly advocating for abandoning what little remains of their limited government platform and endorsing more statist policies.
My presidential campaign proved that standing for freedom brings people together.
Liberty is popular – regardless of race, religion, or creed.
As long as the GOP establishment continues to not only reject the liberty message, but actively drive away the young, diverse coalition that supports those principles, it will see results similar to Tuesday’s outcome.
A renewed respect for liberty is the only way forward for the Republican Party and for our country.
I urge all my Republican colleagues to join the liberty movement in fighting for a brighter future.
I’m sorry but if libertians draw no line in the sand with regards to the murdering of children in the womb, then they become a culture of death not liberty. The child in the womb is a seperate body from that of the mother. Sheesh!
The end results of a culture who murders their own children is suicide.
Say Goodbye to America!
BTW! Rand Paul begged libertarians to vote for Romney.
Why? Because he has enough smarts to know that with this current regime, your freedom and mine will disapear!
> Which is a helluva long way from being the POTUS nominating USSC justices and federal judges nationwide!
...completely minimizing/discounting the judges he appointed to the State’s Supreme Court?
You really don't comprehend the difference between the state and federal courts, do you?
you left off ... creating “Google Ron Paul” yard signs ...
Q: You say that the federal government should stay out of people’s personal habits, including marijuana, cocaine, even heroin.
A: It’s an issue of protecting liberty across the board. If you have the inconsistency, then you’re really not defending liberty. We want freedom [including] when it comes to our personal habits.
Q: Are you suggesting that heroin and prostitution are an exercise of liberty?
A: Yes, in essence, if we leave it to the states. For over 100 years, they WERE legal. You’re implying if we legalize heroin tomorrow, everyone’s gonna use heroin.
How many people here are going to use heroin if it were legal? I bet nobody! “Oh yeah, I need the government to take care of me. I don’t want to use heroin, so I need these laws!”
A: I never thought heroin would get applause!
*facepalm*
That's not the point: the point is that Romney has appointed judges who are terrible: just as liberal and activist as any Obama's appointed.
It is therefore most reasonable to assume he would appoint similar to federal positions. IOW, A Romney win would have resulted in exactly the same sort of people being nominated as Obama has nominated.
And the difference [betwixt State & Federal], is merely one of jurisdiction.
Ron Paul spot on as usual.
Ron Paul is pro life remember? He delivered 4000 FNG babies for Gods’ sake and some of delusional “I’m more conservative than anyone” crowd still attack him.
Amazing. No wonder we lost so badly. Total denial running rampant on this site.
I voted RR, but Romney was my last choice and we would have been better off w Paul, Bachmann whoever in retrospect.
Yup first the GOP tells Palin and the tea party supporters to pound sand. Then tells the RP supporters to pound sand too. I do not think they will win many elections running as Bush neocons. This election should have been a cake walk for the GOP, but NOOO, they just had to run as Bush neocons again. Just like McCain last election. Keep attacking your base GOP and you will keep losing elections.
When I see people endlessly attacking Ron Paul for advocating limited govt and freedom and liberty of the individual and trying to convince us W and his mob of corrupt big govt “compassionate conservatives” is the path for the future I know the GOP is over as a nationally party.
This is not where the electorate is. People are simply not going to vote for a GOP that advocates endless war, “compassionate conservatism”, drug war, police state, etc.
The sooner we all repudiate the W years as a grave mistake, the police state, the war on drugs, the drones, the undeclared wars, the better off we will be.
Before he was driven from office (he wanted to run for reelection) with 34% approval, Romney appointed ZERO conservative judges.
Only 25% of his judges were even republicans at all, the rest were not, of course Mitt himself had only rejoined the GOP in October 1993, after refusing to during the Reagan revolution.
With Romney it is the little things, like leaving the republican party and eventually coming to support democrats with donations, fundraising, and even voting democrat after rejecting Reagan and his conservatism, and the Reagan revolution.
“I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” Romney said when asked whom in his party he aligned with.
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush,”
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
Conjecture and speculation. Reagan was a democrat. Goode was a democrat. Both facts.
And the difference [betwixt State & Federal], is merely one of jurisdiction.
There's a huge difference between state and federal jurisdiction. There is a reason for the USSC!
It's over. Romney lost and we now get to suffer 4 more years of Obama, his USSC nominees, attack on the 2nd Amendment, Holder, Biden, Clinton and Janet Napolitano. Hope you're happy.
If Romney was so liberal as you claim, why was he driven from office in a liberal state?
With Romney it is the little things, like leaving the republican party and eventually coming to support democrats with donations, fundraising, and even voting democrat after rejecting Reagan and his conservatism, and the Reagan revolution.
Reagan was a democrat as was presidential candidate, lawyer Virgil Goode. Libertarian Ron Paul can't make up his mind what he is. See your problem?
The election is over, you anti-Romney people won and now we are saddled with four more years of Obama, Biden, Holder, Clinton, Napolitano, attacks on the 2nd Amendment and USSC nominees like Kagan and Sotomayor. Hope you're happy.
Romney was booted for incompetence, he was the fourth republican governor in a row, in a state that prefers GOP governors.
Reagan last voted for a democrat president in 1948, the President he served under in WWII, which had just ended 3 years before, Reagan then became known for being conservative and campaigning for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and Nixon in 1960, in time becoming a conservative icon, did that touch you and Mitt? Well it did affect Mitt, it drove him to leave the republican party.
Care to explain how voting for Truman in 1948 compares to Mitt voting democrat, fund raising as a democrat and supporting democrats in the 1990s?
You don’t think that different historical periods and political eras exist?
Any difference of the pre-1960s, pre-Vietnam war, pre- abortion wars, pre-Reagan Revolution, 1940s and the 1990s?
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush,”
>>A Romney win would have resulted in exactly the same sort of people being nominated as Obama has nominated.
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>Conjecture and speculation. Reagan was a democrat. Goode was a democrat. Both facts.
Unlike Goode and Regan, Romney never transitioned to a conservative stance.
I already have explained. Romney lost and now you appear to be delighted with 4 more years of a known quantity and his failed administration.
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush.
So was I and I still am a registered Independent. I'm also intellectually capable of discerning the differences between Obama and any Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitutional, etc. party candidate.
You can whine about Romney for eternity, but we have to live with an anti-American POS in the WH for four more years.
Are you anticipating with glee Obama's next attack on the 2nd Amendment and more restrictions on the oil and gas industry?
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