Showing posts with label Rick Santorum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Santorum. Show all posts

Thursday, February 9, 2012

It's All About the Delegates, Baby!


Ron Paul has yet to take first place in any primary this year. Contrary to what you might believe about the primary process, none of that may matter! That is because while the other candidates have been marketing themselves with all the right buzzwords, written by only the best political consultants and focus groups designed to draw maximum turn out, Ron Paul has been educating his base about the part of the process that matters. That would be the delegates!


In some cases, Ron Paul has come in 3rd place and still walked away with all of the available delegates! For example, in the precinct of Larimer County, Colorado, Ron Paul placed second with about 30 percent of the vote compared to Santorum with 53%.  Ron Paul walked away with all delegates and Santorum might as well have came in last place!

While Ron Paul is being scoffed at as a kooky and fringe candidate, he is orchestrating a brilliant campaign and utilizing a well educated voting base to win the election against all odds. The mainstream Republicans may be laughing now about these primary results but the "Paul-tards" might have the last laugh when it comes time to tally up the delegates!

Don't lose heart at the sight of these primary results. Often times they are non-binding and mean absolutely nothing. Remain vigilant and when you show up to cast a vote for Liberty, be ready to volunteer as a delegate which is what really matters! Let the words of Samuel Adams ring true!

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen onsetting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Don't Run Against Obama...

It seems to me that people are making a huge mistake when buying into the notion that this election is about getting Barack Obama out of office. Mainly because when we reduce the issues from ideology to men, it does the democratic process a great disservice. People do not seem to think through with whom we would replace him  and tend to be happy with whoever can simply defeat him.

Barack Obama signing NDAA into law
In reality, Obama has not been much different from George W. Bush.  Both candidates voted for huge stimulus spending, expanded the role of government in healthcare, over-extended the military and signed legislation into law that compromises the liberties afforded us by habeas corpus (e.g. N.D.A.A. and the Patriot Act). There are many more things I am sure they have in common that I could spend all day on but the point is that we apparently have not learned our lesson with George W. Bush.  We are poised to elect Mitt Romney who would be just like the two previous presidents (Obama and Bush) if not worse.  The ideology between the field of G.O.P. establishment candidates and that of our past 4 presidents is not significantly different.

The ideological impact of replacing our incumbent president with Gingrich, Romney or Santorum would be the equivalent of replacing Communism with Fascism. All of the current contenders with the exception of Ron Paul have "plans" to fix every problem while all along it has been the plans that are the problem.  As long as we keep electing men who think they have the answer to the problem, we'll only be making it worse.  This idea that we can use the government to fix all of our problems is in reality the root of them! Ron Paul is the only candidate who is running on the idea that we take power away from the government and let people live life the way they see fit! No matter how good a politicians promise sounds it is only a recipe for tyranny when it involves government action in place of individual autonomy as government action naturally does!  We need a passive government that will allow us to take care of ourselves. Ron Paul is the only candidate who truly embraces that ideology!

Dr. Ron Paul
When we make an election about voting the incumbent out we lose sight of the issues and create fertile grounds for intellectual dishonesty. We embrace one man who will do the same things that we hated in another and give into a double standard.  The hypocrisy has to stop one day and it will. Whether it comes because our system has collapsed and can no longer be sustained or because we have had an awakening of people who are no longer willing to vote for a party or a man but insist on electing an ideology.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Ron Paul IS electable

The statement that Ron Paul is not electable more than baffles me as of late. I could understand that four years ago when people were still in a stupor, proclaiming the line of propaganda that "the fundamentals of  our economy are healthy".  After the market crashed and gold shot through the roof the Federal Reserve should have been revealed for the scam it is and Ron Paul the near-prophet he is!  These things (and the odd lack of attention from the media towards such a man) forced me to take a second look at the candidate that I once accepted as fringe. I researched his policies from A to Z (In his book, Liberty Defined, he literally defines his position on the issues in alphabetical order) and I quickly became a Paul-tard as the Levin-tards (see what i did there?!) would so eloquently put it.

Ron Paul has accurately predicted the expansion of government in every area. Each predictions have happened in the time-frame he gave for them as well!  He pointed out the abuses of the Patriot Act, future legislation such as NDAA, PPACA (that's Obummer-care for you Levin and Limbaugh listeners!), TARP, multiple wars and military adventurism and unstable conditions and the overthrowing of governments as what happened with the Arab Spring. All of this incredible foresight from a man that is so easily written off as un-electable.

On top of that many who call him fringe and kooky, are quick to support candidates like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. What is the problem with that you might ask? Ron Paul is very literally more electable than both!  He consistently does better than each candidate in polls comparing them to Barrack Obama. What's more is that if any candidate deserve the title "un-electable" it is these two!  They have failed to qualify for the ballots in multiple states while Ron Paul is on the ballot in every state!

Whether you like it or not, Ron Paul IS electable. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are not. Live with it.