From my vantage point, here’s where we are in the presidential selection process…
Give the Clintons their due. When push comes to shove, they both push and shove like there’s no tomorrow. Because for them, there isn’t. They give no quarter and take no prisoners. And they’ve now successfully changed Barack Obama from a candidate who happens to be black to the black candidate.
The South Carolina results will prove prophetic. Barack’s constituency will now consist of the black voter and the anti-Hillary voter. And that’s not likely to be enough to gain him the nomination. Not likely, but still possible. The anti-Hillary segment, even in the Democrat Party, is large and growing larger every day. Heck, by the minute. But will it grow large enough before Hillary crushes Barack on Super-Duper Tuesday? That’s a long shot.
Then again, if any of the candidates remaining in the race from either party have negatives high enough to blow a slam dunk, it’s Hillary. Which may be the best hope for Republicans hoping to remain in the White House. There will be a much larger and much stronger “Anybody But Hillary” segment of the conservative and general voting population than an “Anybody But Obama” contingent.
Which puts Hillary-haters in a tough spot. Do you hope that Barack takes her out now, assuring she and her husband will never darken the doorway of the Oval Office again? Or are you sure enough she can’t win a general election regardless of who the Republicans nominate? All I know is they better be DAMNED sure. And to be that sure, they better not take any significant voting bloc on the right for granted.
So while the conventional wisdom is that John McCain is the strongest potential Republican candidate in the general election due to his moderate views and love affair with the mainstream media, there is a significant bloc of voters on the right who will never vote for him, even against Hillary Clinton. Republicans will be taking one whale of a risk in making McCain their nominee.
Ditto Mike Huckabee - though the odds of that happening continue to fall by the nano-second. WAY too many non-evangelical voters will never in a million years vote for the Huckster, and there simply aren’t enough hard-core evangelical Republican voters who don’t care about anything other than the Bible for him to pull off an electoral miracle here.
The guy’s been angling for the Veep spot from Day One anyway. And had he not caught fire, and thus additional scrutiny, he might have been an acceptable second banana. But even that’s probably not in the cards now, unless McCain gets the nomination. But a McCain/Huckabee ticket, even if it were to somehow win the general election, will end the Republican Party as we know it.
Not that that’s a bad thing.
Which brings us to Rudy Giuliani. If Pastor Huck is a no-go for the non-religious conservatives who would withhold their votes even if it meant President Hillary, ditto for social conservatives if the GOP nominates Rudy. While national defense, law-and-order and fiscal conservatives can probably live with Rudy, the Christian right simply cannot.
Nominating the former New York mayor would destroy the already tenuous center-right coalition necessary for national GOP electoral victories. And if social conservatives stay home en masse in the general election, it’s unlikely Rudy can make up that large a loss in the general election with moderates and social liberals. A Rudy/Hillary match-up would probably be very entertaining, but if the goal is to keep Hillary out of the White House at all costs, the risk of nominating Rudy is just too great.
Which leaves Republicans with Mitt Romney.
No, Ron Paul is not a credible alternative at this point. It’s time to get serious. It’s time to read the writing on the wall. By all means, Republican primary voters who support Ron Paul should absolutely register their support and vote for him for as long as he stays in the race. But at the end of the day, he won’t be the Republican nominee. Wish it were otherwise. But it is what it is, whatever is is.
Others can make their cases for and against Romney. But the bottom line is that he’s now the last remaining, viable candidate who is conservative enough to keep the GOP’s center-right coalition together in a general election against Hillary or Barack. There are certainly a lot of anti-Mitt detractors out there right now, but there isn’t an “Anybody But Mitt” segment on the GOP side who would accept a Hillary presidency rather than vote for the man anywhere near as large as the “Anybody But Mac,” “Anybody But Huck” and “Anybody But Rudy” segments.
So the “Anybody But Hillary” Republicans out there better take that into consideration and coalesce around the former Massachusetts governor before it’s too late. This race is now between Romney and McCain. Those on the religious right who don’t want McCain should think twice now about casting their vote for Huckabee. And those social moderates in the middle should think twice about casting their vote for Giuliani. Otherwise, they could well end up with McCain.
Regardless of which candidate the GOP ultimately nominates, he better devote considerable attention to wooing the Ron Paul voters by definitively embracing his constitutional views on domestic issues. Not his isolationist views on the world stage, but on the proper role of government on the bread-and-butter issues of taxes and spending.
Unlike Christian conservatives who have threatened to launch a third-party alternative if Rudy is the nominee, the Ron Paul voters already have that alternative: the Libertarian Party. If the GOP nominee doesn’t reach out to the Ron Paul voters the way GOP nominees reach out to every other special interest in the electorate, the Libertarian Party vote could well be the difference between winning and losing on Election Day this coming November. And it will be the Republicans’ own fault. The libertarian-leaning Ron Paul voter simply cannot be taken for granted or blown off. Period.
Or I could be completely wrong.
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
The great secret of Ronald Reagan that no one talks about is that he knew he was right and he, to a great extent, ignored the bleatings of the New York Times and the Washington Post. He ignored the polls. He knew what had to get done, and he did it.
Liberals hated him for his tactics, as they do Rudy.
But they loved his results, as they do with Rudy’s work in NYC.
We need Rudy.
I hope the good people of Florida agree tomorrow.
[…] While he suggests voting for Ron Paul as long as the good congressman is in the presidential race, my friend and colleague Chuck Muth explains why the only sensible “consensus” Republican choice is Mitt Romney: the bottom line is that he’s now the last remaining, viable candidate who is conservative enough to keep the GOP’s center-right coalition together in a general election against Hillary or Barack. There are certainly a lot of anti-Mitt detractors out there right now, but there isn’t an “Anybody But Mitt” segment on the GOP side who would accept a Hillary presidency rather than vote for the man anywhere near as large as the “Anybody But Mac,” “Anybody But Huck” and “Anybody But Rudy” segments. […]
Great reasoning Chuck, as usual.
Why did Newt desert us??
I think a Newt/Lieberman ticket would be hard to beat.
I HAVE MADE MY DECISION IN THE SAME ELIMINATION MANNER AS THE MUTHS TRUTHS. MY CONCLUSION IS EXACTLY THE SAME IN THAT I FEEL THAT MIT ROMNEY IS THE BEST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE AND I AM COMFOPRTABLE WITH, RATING HIM AT ABOUT 87%. HE WILL GET MY VOTE. I HAVE DONE THE SAME PROCESS ON THE DEMOCRAT PARTY SIDE AND THE ONLY ONE ON THAT SIDE THAT I COULD EVEN CONSIDER IS OBOMA WHO I RATED AT LESS THAN 55% ACCORDING TO MY PERSONAL ” QUALIFICATION” SCALE. .
Are you sure Mitt is the best?
Check out this video on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NlIMQ31EjY
John McCain is an extremely bright guy with a lot of leadership qualities. He’s a true American hero, a fact I find hard to ignore. He’d make a wonderful secretary of defense. And in a general election, he’d draw a lot of those same independents that he seems to attract in primaries.
Having said that, John McCain represents the Democrat wing of the Republican Party. In a general election, the Two-Headed Giant that is Billary will drub John McCain with his Keating Five problems, his age, and anything else they can think of. And if Obama’s the Democrats’ candidate, the age difference will be self-drubbing to McCain. Moreover, the independents that Senator McCain hopes will push his general election campaign ahead are much more likely to be drawn to Barack Obama than to Hillary Clinton.
Chuck makes a good point about the attraction of Ron Paul, and the need for Republicans to show that they are still connected to that Liberarian element. The surest way not to achieve that objective is to nominate a candidate whose namesake legislation eviscerated the First Amendment.
I was a big Fred-head. But politics goes on. The choice is Mitt Romney or John McCain. There are many things to admire about John McCain, and I do; but his nomination will surely sunder what has been the Republican coalition. I’m in a Super Tuesday state, Missouri. I’ll vote for Mitt Romney for all the reasons Chuck stated.
Mitt is the man. His success in business and government, and rescuing the Olympics in Salt Lake City, raise him head and shoulders above the others.
John McCain is a great American, a lousy politiican, a terrible Republican, a fraud as a conservative.
Rudy and Mike can’t get elected.
How about Mitt and Rudy on the ticket, in that order?
I WAS going to support Ron Paul, just up until I learned of his isolationist ways. If we ignore the world we do so at risk to ourselves. At the same time we must realize that great ‘Service Industry’ is a losing proposition and get some serious investment in actual manufacturing, which requires getting rid of the MBA’s and so called analysis’s than only care about the short term gain.
Yes, narrowed the field down to Romney. I don’t really care if someone ‘flip-flops’ as long as it’s because they got more information to make a better decision.
Now a Romney/Gingrich ticket would be interesting.
I enjoyed Chuck’s article, and I think his suggestion is well thought-out and merits good consideration for those strict constitutionalist conserveratives us who did already support Mitt Romney all along.
I have been a Republican since I first voted at the age of 21 back in 1968; however, following the Republican debacle of 2000-2006, I left the Republican Party and re-registered as an Independent. It was not really a difficult decision to make, leaving the Republi-crat Party after seeing them operate when control of 2/3 of the branches of the government were controlled by them.
As a strict constitutionalist, I have been a Ron Paul fan since about 1990, and was thrilled when he decided to run for the presidency. I became a strong supporter of the Ron Paul Revolution, and re-registered as a Republican just so I could vote for him in the Florida Republican primary.
Unlike many “Paulites”, I never believed he would receive the support of the Republican Party to become its candidate, but I supported him in order to get his message of limited government and a return to individual freedom back on the table. Hopefully we are accomplishing that for the reasons cited by Chuck in this article.
Chuck describes Dr. Paul’s non-interventionist views as “isolationist”, which I tend to disagree with. I believe that striving for amicable relations and free trade with all nations, while avoiding entangling alliances and involvement in the internal affairs of other nations, is only prudent–not isolationist. I also strongly believe in securing our borders and limiting further immigration until we can account for our present immigrants and meld them into American society. I firmly believe that “unity” is responsible for America’s greatness–not “diversity.”
As a retired Army officer, I have long felt that our military is stretched too thin by our attempt to maintain a military presence in so much of the world. Such a foreign policy smacks of imperialism, which the U.S. has always found to be incompatible with true democracy. I believe our continued involvement in NATO no longer serves a purpose, since clearly the military strength of the European NATO members is sufficient to handle any threats to European safety. I also believe that maintaining a troop presence in South Korea and Japan at our present levels is a waste of military resources. My opinion is that we can significantly curtail our military presence in Europe and the Far East, maintaining only the troops and equipment in those areas necessary to operate limited numbers of installations which could be readily reinforced in the event it should become necessary.
I also believe that the U.S. needs to “hand-off” operations in Iraq to the Iraqis as soon as practicable, and maintain only the level of forces in the Middle East necessary to meet the type of requirements I listed above for Europe and the Far East. In this sense, I agree with Ron Paul’s suggested curtailment of international military presence.
Dr. Paul is correct in stating that our foreign policy of policing the world and maintaining our military presence abroad is beyond the financial capability of the U.S., and the monies spent on such immodest foreign policy is driving down our ability to meet domestic needs, many of which also need to be significantly pared down.
I feel certain that if the Republican Party intends to continue on the course established by its leaders in the last generation, it will witness an even more serious erosion of support among the majority right/moderate American citizenry, and may go the way of the Whig Party.
OK. so we are to stuck with Romney, so be it.
Making the best of a lousy situation is the only way to survive, I get that, but NO DAMN WAY will I ever support Rudy for ANY public office!
I’ve watched his socialist pronouncements and actions for decades, I cannot care what he claims, I know what he DOES!.
What he DOES is to constantly attack our American culture, values and civil rights.
I cannot see how anyone can refer to him as a conservative without laughing, or crying.
Ditto for McCain.
Romney/Gingrich, Romney/Paul, Romney/Hunter, Romney/Thompson, FINE!
But NEVER Romney and Guliani or McCain!
I have never missed an election in over thirty years, I won’t miss this one, Please do not force me to “Write In” an independent candidate in place of the alleged conservative ticket!
Back in the 70’s we had rampant oil prices, inflation, recession, the birth of modern radical Islam, and had to endure 4 years of Jimmy Carter. This was due to the Republicans ignoring their base. It took those 4 years for the Republicans to learn their lessons, and out of those 4 years of hell under Carter, we got Ronald Reagan for 8 years.
I see so many similarities to the 70’s right now. I think it might be best for our country to endure 4 years of hell under Hillary so that the Republican Party can learn their lessons and another Ronald Reagan conservative can rise up and lead our nation again.
I changed my voter registration to “Independent” after the amnesty debacle (Mel Martinez is my Mexican…errrr…US Senator). Currently I see nothing but RINOs running for president on the Republican side and I will not vote for any of them. In fact, in November, I plan to vote for Ronald Reagan as my write in candidate for President. It’s my way of saying to the Republicans, you have no one worthy right now to replace that great man and I will not soil his leadership and memory by voting for RINOs.
Be safe and well.
On January 26, Chuck quoted Michael Reagan:
“If Newt throws his hat in the ring he knows that in the blink of an eye he will have the grass roots behind him. . . . Just as his Contract with America dealt with many of the issues that concerned the grass roots and won Congress for the GOP, his agenda goes right to the heart of our current problems. He’s offering concrete solutions to all the concrete problems and that’s what the grass roots crave.”
If McCain or Giuliani is nominated, I’ll vote for the Libertarian … hopefully Ron Paul, but whoever their nominee is. The Republican Party will have earned the destruction it will surely realize.
If Romney is nominated, I’ll cross my fingers, close my eyes, hold my nose and vote for him. But I have nothing more than hope … and absolutely no confidence … that he’ll come through on most social and fiscal issues. His potential Supreme Court nominees worry me most. I fear he’s a fraud, but he’s tried hard and consistantly to demonstrate that he has, indeed, seen the light.
I sincerely hope Newt read M. Reagan’s piece and jumps in. (If he does, I suggest he try to recruit Tom Coburn to the ticket. He’s the guy I’d most like to see in the White House!)
I think Chuck is spot on with this right up to the point that he thinks the GOP is going to jump on Romney’s bandwagon any more that they are going to with the other three. Mitt’s only hope is that folks are so overwhelmed with his road to Damascus, campaign trail conversion to Conservative principles that they will overlook his Mass. Hillary Care health plan, his support for gay marriage, his being a Mormon, his self-admitted support of strong gun cintrol laws and a host of other far left stands he took to get elected Governor in ultra-liberal Mass. Chances of that happening, in the real world, are far less than zero. Keep in mind that the same folks who made him governor keep burdening the U. S. Senate with Chappaquiddick Teddy and John Francois Kerry. Should the GOP be dumb enough to nominate Mitt the left-liberal MSM and the Demoncrat hatchet men will be out in full force and by the time they get done Hillary is going to appear a charter member of the vast right wing conspiracy by comparison.
The really sad part is that none of the GOP’s other prospects are any better. The GOP has set itself up for a defeat that is going to make Barry Goldwater’s race with LBJ look like a landslide victory.
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. “–
Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) 13th United States President
Chuck,
Fred Thompson IS John McCain, he was just lying about it. Just as Mitt Romney IS Rudy Giuliani and is still lying about it.
To paraphrase Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Once you eliminate those impossible to support, whoever remains, no matter how improbable, must be our candidate.
My vote, once the primaries reached Ohio, was going to be for Fred. I was sorry to see him go but I guess I knew all along that he wasn’t going to make it.
Now I’m going to vote for Romney. I too hope he can do or say SOMETHING to bring over the Ron Paul supporters…..
I will vote for Ron Paul in the Texas primaries, AND in November even if I have to write him in. As much as it pains me to say it, the neo-conservative Republicans are worse than the Democrats.
Not only have our Republican leaders adopted (or at least preserved) every New Deal and Great Society crap program given to us by the Dems, they have added a worldwide empire that is more expensive than the liberal/socialist programs of the progressives! And on top of it they have eviscerated the Bill of Rights, a trend that they seem to be in no hurry to curb.
I feel like I’m going insane, but I honestly feel like most of the Democrats would do less damage to our Republic than the Republican candidates, should they make it the White House. Those of you who like Ron Paul but are voting for lesser candidates “because Ron can’t win” are collectively responsible for whatever big govt crap we get over the next four years.
Take Chuck’s advice and support RP as long as he’s on your ballot. There is precious little difference between the rest of them. They are all - Mitt included - running away from their records.
McCain has been down here in Florida with an ad telling us that Floridians are afraid of terrorists. We are NOT afraid of terrorists, foreign or domestic. We ARE afraid of lying politicians who will lie to us while they continue to sell us out to the ‘new world orderlies’.
I refuse to, ‘hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils’ again.
Ron Paul is the only candidate I can believe and support, especially in light of the GOP and the mainstream media attempting to draw the curtain of silence around him at every turn. He will get my vote as a write in and if that might hasten the end of the Republican party, so be it.
You know, Chuck, had folks like you been beating the Ron Paul drum every day lo these many months, he might be on the ticket.
Chuck - how or why…? How can anyone on the ‘Right’ even contemplate supporting Romney? What happened to caring about integrity? What happened to caring about sticking to your guns?
Do we only care about what a candidate said in the past 8-12 months, or do we go super far back and look 18-24 months back?
Which Romeny are we talking about, first of all? Mitt Romney, c. 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1998, 1996, et al.? John ‘Flip-Flop’ Kerry has been more consistent with his beliefs and policies than has Mitt Romney in any 18 month period since 1996! And this is the new standard-bearer of Ronald Reagan’s legacy!?!
This is a sad day.
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Romney cannot beat Hillery and/or Obama.
He is too much like them.
The only Republican that is different is Paul. He is the only one that has a chance of beating them.
You are assumming Ron Paul will drop out. If he dosen’t there will be a brokered convention, so don’t count him out yet. Also, if Rudy and Huckabe drops out their delegates will have to vote for someone else. Note that Ron Paul can easily get the contributions to stay in till the end, unlike Rudy, Huckabe, or maybe even McCain.
I will not hold my nose and vote for Mitt or any other Remacrat. The Rebublicrates get what they deserve after their pityful showing from Bush, and the majority in the House and Senate. They lost that by the way and are now working on losing the White House! If I hear one more time somebody call RP an Isolationist after that idiot Mcmaimed called him one, I’m going to have the word’s definition published in every paper in the country. RP is anything but an isolationist.
The economy is all comming to a head just as we get our new Depublican president. Just as in the Carter years history will rhyme and the middle class will all go through times that most of us will wish that we were never born. I’m a republican turned Libertarian by Bush and I will vote for RP to the end. Yes even when the media has helped you all pick whoever you pick. The rest of you idiots that can’t put 60 minutes of your time together to look into what RP stands for will get just what you deserve for at least 4 years. You will get what you deserve because you lived on the nightly news and in sound bytes of the puppet master news media. My God people will you please GOOGLE Ron Paul and read and listen to this man for just one weekend.
I’m seeing a whole bunch of rational libertarian Repubiicans coming over to Mitt Romney. I’ve been a Rudy guy, but am now happy to support Mitt. He’s got virtually the same appeal: Northeasterner, Centrist on social issues, staunchly fiscally conservative. Perhaps he’s not quite as good as Rudy on National Security issues. But oh well.
You’ll see an increasing “Libertarians for Romney” effort developing in the coming days and weeks.
And let’s keep in mind that Romney was heavily supported in his US Senate race by the Republican Liberty Caucus in 1994. Plus, he’s got enthusiastic backing of Mr. Libertarian Republican himself William Weld. So, Romney’s no stranger to the libertarian movement.
I am not ready to give up on Ron Paul. He had strong second place showings in Nevada, South Carolina, and Louisiana. But I am more than ready to ditch the Republican party if he does not win it. Certainly a McCain, Huckabee, or Rudy presidency (but hey, Rudy has far less chance than Ron Paul at this point) will be the end of my Republican membership. I may stay for Mitt, should he be the eventual nominee, but Chuck is right: he will need to woo my vote in a big way. Repealing the recent energy bill would be a start, but only a start. Permanent tax decreases and smaller government would also have to be the center of any campaign he runs if he wants my vote.
I too will hold to my voting for Ron Paul, and would encourage everyone else to do the same. He does not have an isolationist policy but one of free trade and no nation building–but unlike Bush he means it. If we want to run a CONSERVATIVE candidate to try to win the white house–and our country, why not vote for a CONSERVATIVE? It ain’t Mitt Romney. None of these guys stand any chance against a Democrat, there is no reason for either Dems or Repubs or Independents to vote for them. And if you check exit polls, Ron Paul does best among Independent voters. There are more of them than any other. I think your logic is slightly flawed.
I too support Ron Paul for the simple reason that he cured my apathy. If the MSM would stop the media blackout they have on him, then more of America could hear what a true Patriot sounds like. Then again that is the reason for it. He has more votes thus far than “Rudy”, but look at the MSM news coverage. The grass roots support for Ron Paul will be here long after the no money candidates are long gone. So long Huck, Rudy, and Mac. Mitt thinks he can buy the election and if enough people let him, he will.
I am a retired Army Veteran. I spent two years in Iraq, six months each in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. I know first hand how the U.S. military machine, led by the CIA, has wasted trillions of tax payer dollars on wars and conflicts that had no bearing on U.S. security.
If you think the Iraq war is about terrorism then look at all the terrorist countries that are our allies. Also, look at how important Iran became after Turkey refused to let us put a giant OIL pipeline through their country. Just folow the timeline and remember it’s all about the money or we would have invaded Darfur for their atrocities that were far worse than Saddam’s ever were.
Just for the record, I am NOT a conspiracy nut. I just apply the reasoning for our military conquest to similar situations in other places that don’t involve money or oil. If our foreign policy doesn’t change soon and drastically then Dr Pauls vision of a totally bankrupt America will be a reality. Don’t believe me? Look at the cuurent money exchange rate between the U.S. and Canadian Dollars and see for yourself. Look at history, when the mighty Ottoman Empire collapsed, Egypt became a ward of Great Britain. Who will we become a ward of? History will repeat itself if the lesson is not learned.
None of the so called top tier Republicans have the gonads to make the necessary changes but if one of them does get elected they will get the blame in history for all the damage the neo-cons have done to us. Just like Carter gets the blame for the effects of a decade of war spending in S.E. Asia. “W” will get off blameless and he knows it. Why do you think he is always smiling? The one in charge during the disaster always gets the blame. The disaster would have to be bigger than 911 and the collapse of Wall Street will be.
Wake Up America!
Dr Dale
King Nebuchadnezzar in the book of Daniel chapt. 4 verse 25 learned that “the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever He will”. We to will learn this come next November. Pray that God will give us a president that will rule over us righteously according to our Constitution and the Bible where it applies to us.
Fritz, actually Ron Paul had very weak showings in Nevada, and Louisiana. The Paul propoganda machine played it up otherwise, but he did pitifiully bad in both states.
Before Nevada his folks were crowing about how they were “going to win big time.” He ended up tied with McCain for 2nd with a measly 13%, 5 times less than Romney.
Louisiana? He finished a distant third, even behind Uncommitted. That’s a bit insulting, especially when you consider he was the only candidate to campaign there.
And notice you don’t hear anything about Wyoming? Paul was going to win there. That’s what his supporters said. He placed 4th with Zero delegates.
Look past the Paul propoganda machine if you want the real story. You see the media never calls him on any of this, because 1. He’s a Bush basher and opposes the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which they love 2. He’s so far down that they figure he makes little if any difference.
So, nobody ever calls him on the lies coming out of his campaign.
Chuck, why do you put “libertarian-leaning voter” and Ron Paul in the same sentence? Many of Ron Paul’s supporters are anything but libertarians; Much more populist, conspiratorialist, even Lyndon Larouchie. And some of Paul’s supporters, like notably Don Black and David Duke, are opposites of libertarians, more Authoritarians actually.
Mitt Romney has “libertarian-leaning” supporters who are “fiscally conservative/socially tolerant.” Ditto for Giuliani, whose supporters are strong Eco Conservatives yet Pro-Choice.
Paul’s supporters are more fringe 9/11 denier types who listen to Alex Jones. Hardly “libertarian-leaning.”
Holy Crap! Is this the real Eric Dondero? The same Eric Dondero that has been on an anti-Paul crusade ever since he was let go by Dr Paul back in 2001? Come to grace Chuck’s blog?
Per Ron Paul, in a Reason interview from May 2007: “He’s a disgruntled former employee who was fired….if Eric Dondero is the only thing I have to worry about, then I don’t have a lot to worry about.”
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/120338.html
I’m with Ron Paul. None of the candidates other than Ron Paul will even go near the money problem. Our nation is bankrupt! A nine trillion dollar deficit and growing at an incredible pace. Ron Paul was talking about our dishonest and broken money system years ago. See http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=8GzRWSof8uQ His message is getting out and this time it is going to be heard.
Good job Alan! I was about to post that Dondero’s beating Romney’s drum rings a bit hollow…
Romney a libertarian? Puhleeze. The sheeple may believe that crap Eric, but don’t try to sell it on Chuck Muth’s blog! Ha! It just shows how clueless you are about the readers of his column.
Which libertarians do you know of that support state subsidized health care there Dondero?
Look at the economy! Stock market is crashing, people are being left homeless (literally), the government doling out more borrowed money in a so called “stimulus package”. Where will it all end? Democrats and Republics alike want to continue this insanity of tax and spend…all except Ron Paul. I REFUSE to vote less than my conscience in this situation. I WILL NOT vote for anyone who wants to continue to bankrupt America. Ron Paul has my vote until the end.
I’m voting for the Mittster.
*rolls eyes*
McCain… ah geez.. he shouldn’t even be a Republican.
If it were legal in Nevada, I’d take all bets on Ron Paul not being the republican nominee at 10 to 1. Ain’t gonna happen. We got two choices now, either McCain or Romney. The good news, the democrats feel the same way! They got Clinton or Obama. LOL.
Looks like we screwed the pooch this time, America. Were did it all start to go so wrong?
What if Paul pulled Rudy, Thompson, or Mr. Newt himself for a VP? Could we see some definite landsliding happening?