Republicans lose without Ron Paul
Posted by hank, Sat Aug 11 14:39:00 UTC 2007
If you think about it, Ron Paul is very different from his fellow Republican nominees, and he currently has a fairly large following. Think down the road when the primary happens. If the Republican party doesn’t put Ron Paul in front, and instead picks Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani, all of the voters that like Ron Paul will write in Ron Paul on the final ballot, abstain from voting, etc. This will cause an imbalance of votes on the Republican side, losing the party the election. Think about it. 50% or more of the nation will be voting for the Democratic candidate. If our votes are split, nobody wins (except the other party).
There’s also a downside to this. If Ron Paul wins the primary, the Republicans who oppose him might do the same thing unless someone tells them that the Democrats will win if they don’t support him. It comes down to this:
Ron Paul must win the primary for the Republican party to win the election
The Ron Paul crowd will not vote for any other Republican candidate, but the rest of the party will vote for Ron Paul when their other option is putting a Democrat in office. Let them know.
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August 11, 2007 @ 03:06 PM
The Ron Paul crowd is something like 2% of the GOP. They’re likely to lose the election regardless of the nominee, but Ron Paul has some extreme libertarian(e.g. getting rid of most federal agencies) views that would be very unpopular with most of the country. So far they’re not very widely known because he’s seen as a fringe candidate
August 11, 2007 @ 03:11 PM
Where is he quoted saying he want’s to abolish anything other than the Federal Reserve?
August 11, 2007 @ 03:15 PM
You should start a separate blog for your political posts. I go to rubycorner.com to read about Ruby, not Ron Paul or Tony Campolo. What’s that saying… something like “one time is a fluke, two times is a trend and three times is a real problem”
August 11, 2007 @ 03:23 PM
Ya - sorry about that - I’ll turn off the auto-pinging.
August 11, 2007 @ 04:18 PM
Hank,
Yeah, so I’ve been a Paulite for a long time. At least one of the Repub debates so far had Ron Paul going on a tangent talking about things other than the Fed he’d abolish. I think the first one.
Anyway, I’m down with everything he says, but I think it’s odd that you’d write about him that way without having seen that debate.
August 11, 2007 @ 04:29 PM
Josh,
I’ve seen the debate, and just reviewed some of it - I forgot the IRS, which is major. Now I’m just trying to find a list of the agencies he would like to see gone. If you know of a list like this, let me know.
August 11, 2007 @ 04:33 PM
Ah - I found a list:
From http://paul4prez.blogspot.com/2007/07/could-ron-paul-really-abolish-irs.html
August 11, 2007 @ 08:27 PM
The GOP lost nearly half it’s base in the 2006 election. So I’d venture to guess that he has alot more than 2% of actual republicans.
August 17, 2007 @ 11:24 AM
I’m with Stewie. I want Ruby, not politics.
BTW… all your internets belong to Ron Paul in the end. He’s a @#$%. Anybody who supports the Secure Fence Act and rubs elbows with Reagan must be. He may play hip, but he’s a drone like the rest. This country will go a little bit of nowhere with him in office.
I want something to actually change in this country. Dennis Kucinich FTW.
IRSSI FTW as well :)
August 17, 2007 @ 12:16 PM
Dylan: I changed it so Mephisto won’t ping RubyCorner unless I tag with Ruby.
Kucinich doesn’t look too bad, but I don’t agree with a few things. I like him a lot more than the other democratic candidates. Banning the legal sale of guns is a bad idea since it only leaves the black market. Why would anyone vote for someone who only wants the criminals to have guns? His opposition to visas is something I agree with, as well as his end to the war on drugs, Iraq withdrawal, pro-choice-ness, and gay marriage. Another one I don’t like is the abolition of the death penalty. I don’t like paying for the rehabilitation of extremely violent criminals.
I don’t really see what’s wrong with the Secure Fence Act since it was defunded as soon as it was put into effect. I would like to stop illegal immigration, and the Act supports that by funding border patrol.
Ron Paul would change things. He wants to eliminate the IRS. He wants to make healthcare preventative rather than reactive. I don’t agree on all his social issues, but he has a non-intervention policy on the Internet, so I don’t really see where you’re coming from on the Internet belonging to Ron Paul. He votes against the Republican party routinely, so he’s not the puppet you say he is. He voted against the Iraq War from day one, something the democrats didn’t even do.
Thanks for the comment though - I’ve learned a lot from the comments on this post - I hope its Paul vs. Kucinich in the end (Gravel is a little too crazy for me).