Attention Media and GOP: "No one but Paul" POLL ADDED

If Ron Paul doesn't win the nomination, how would you vote?

  • No one but Paul, else write-in Paul

    Votes: 705 58.0%
  • No one but Ron Paul or Gary Johnson, else write-in Paul

    Votes: 138 11.3%
  • Ron Paul, else third party

    Votes: 113 9.3%
  • Ron Paul or Gary Johnson else third party

    Votes: 103 8.5%
  • Ron Paul, else GOP nominee (regardless of who that is)

    Votes: 11 0.9%
  • Ron Paul else Other GOP contender, but only if a specific one or two

    Votes: 26 2.1%
  • Ron Paul else Obama

    Votes: 37 3.0%
  • If Ron Paul not nominee, I have no idea how I'd vote! Make Ron Paul nominee!

    Votes: 83 6.8%

  • Total voters
    1,216
No One But Paul supporters actually stuck around tonight and became delegates in Colorado and Minnesota. ;) :D
 
Wish I could change my vote, because it went from:

"If Ron Paul not nominee, I have no idea how I'd vote! Make Ron Paul nominee!"

to:

"No one but Paul, else write-in Paul"
 
NOBP moneybomb in progress bump!

Hey Media and GOP, over $1M raised since yesterday, to let you know we won't be co-opterized. We see clearly now.
 
Don't know if this has been discussed already because I don't have the patience to read this whole thread, but I want to know who said if Paul doesn't get the nomination they would vote for Obama and to give reasons. I mean, is it even possible for these two be further apart ideologically?
 
Don't know if this has been discussed already because I don't have the patience to read this whole thread, but I want to know who said if Paul doesn't get the nomination they would vote for Obama and to give reasons. I mean, is it even possible for these two be further apart ideologically?

Possibilities
1. They are democrats/independents, sick enough of Obama's lies regarding ending wars, supporting civil liberties to support Paul, but not the other GOP nominees.
2. They are game-playing conservatives who want to stick it to the GOP for not supporting Paul.

To your question on ideology, Obama and Paul are just about as far apart as Newt Romneytorum and Paul are. Obama and Newt Romneytorum are ideologically different sides of the same big gov't fiat coin. Paul is his own gold Liberty Eagle.
 
Obama if not Paul

Well to answer kingwilly, if Paul is not the nominee I would not only vote for Obama, I would encourage everyone I know to vote for Obama.


The reason is simple: we are playing a two party game at this point. The third party idea is hamstrung by the rules the two party monopoly has created and what Paul has proved is if enough people get involved, you can actually start to move a political party in the right direction. The best way to make use of the momentum that Dr. Paul has created is to work hard at capturing the Republican party, or rescuing it if that is how you want to view it, from the establishment statists that run it now.

So if the nominee is Romney or Santorum, do I have a dog in the presidential race? Yes, and that dog would be Obama because we need to be looking to 2016 and if Romney or Santorum actually get elected president, then there will be no contest for the nomination in 2016. Having the Republican party lose the 2012 presidential election keeps the 2016 nominee position open for someone like Rand Paul to pick up where his dad left off.

So the short answer to why I would vote for Obama is because we need the Republican party open come 2016.
 
Well to answer kingwilly, if Paul is not the nominee I would not only vote for Obama, I would encourage everyone I know to vote for Obama.


The reason is simple: we are playing a two party game at this point. The third party idea is hamstrung by the rules the two party monopoly has created and what Paul has proved is if enough people get involved, you can actually start to move a political party in the right direction. The best way to make use of the momentum that Dr. Paul has created is to work hard at capturing the Republican party, or rescuing it if that is how you want to view it, from the establishment statists that run it now.

So if the nominee is Romney or Santorum, do I have a dog in the presidential race? Yes, and that dog would be Obama because we need to be looking to 2016 and if Romney or Santorum actually get elected president, then there will be no contest for the nomination in 2016. Having the Republican party lose the 2012 presidential election keeps the 2016 nominee position open for someone like Rand Paul to pick up where his dad left off.

So the short answer to why I would vote for Obama is because we need the Republican party open come 2016.

I feel the same. Not to mention the GOP will become apathetic once again if they are in power. No one will care about spending and go about like everything is fine and changed to the good old days of Bush before all of the government intrusion which the GOP seems to think just started in 2009? So in a nutshell we need to let Obama stay in in order to save the republicans from themselves. Not to mention I genuinely find Obama the lesser of two evils next to Newt and Santorum (not as much Romney). Another thing to think about is since you know they represent the same future for this country and are basically rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, I would rather have a wolf than a wolf in sheep's clothing. Furthermore any GOP candidate represents a real threat of all out jingoistic fascist war greater than anything we might get under Obama. And whereas Obama may at least speak about civil liberties the GOP candidates will not hesitate to re-instate the draft or enact more stuff like the Patriot Act and NDAA. I would be horrified if either Newt or Santorum were President. Romney's bad too but I don't see him as quite so dangerous, probably on the same level as Obama. That being said I do not plan on voting for Obama but will secretly hope he wins. He probably won't need my help to win in PA regardless.
 
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