Getting Ron Paul voters to support the GOP Ticket

[WhistlinDave]

Getting Ron Paul voters to support the GOP Ticket

Oh, and, uh, when you're done doing that, how about a little unity? You know, we're all on the same big happy team here, gotta defeat that Obama guy, boy, he's bad news, huh? Put 'er there, pal! Thanks for your support.

 

[WhistlinDave]

I understand that Romney isn't an authentic conservative, but do you think that Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum are any better than Romney? My guess is that people here would be complaining about the GOP candidate no matter what. (As long as Ron didn't win.) I personally don't buy into the rhetoric from the free republic types that Romney is a liberal, and we should've nominated a conservative like Santorum and Gingrich. I'm no fan of Romney, but I personally think that he's better than Santorum and about the same as Gingrich.

I'll tell you what he is. Forget all other labels. He is a cheater. A power hungry cheater who is willing to defraud his own party members and treat them like dirt, like enemies, in order to gain power. Doesn't matter to me how liberal or conservative he is, because all other considerations become unimportant when the first thing he just showed us is how corrupt he is.

 

[WhistlinDave]

They're both dangerous.. and I can't vote for either of them

This.

 

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[georgiaboy]

I understand that Romney isn't an authentic conservative, but do you think that Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum are any better than Romney? My guess is that people here would be complaining about the GOP candidate no matter what. (As long as Ron didn't win.) I personally don't buy into the rhetoric from the free republic types that Romney is a liberal, and we should've nominated a conservative like Santorum and Gingrich. I'm no fan of Romney, but I personally think that he's better than Santorum and about the same as Gingrich.

Heck no, none of those three are any better than the other. I remember the days when I would rank order these types and think I could see daylight between them, but those days are over. GWB and his prescription drug program, NCLB, bailouts, and national offense iced that cake for me. It's disgusting the kinds of "differences" we're expected to see between all these guys, when fundamentally they're all status quo big gov't GOP'ers.

It's gotten simple for me now. Either you're actually going to be a conservative and be for this constitutionally limited federal gov't, or you're not. Give me a stage of the former; then we can have a debate on their differences.

Until then, I'll vote the guy who sees it like I do, or I'll go elsewhere. No more charade.

If conservative voters follow my lead, maybe we'll change things. If they continue to perpetuate the status quo, they'll get it.

My protest continues.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Here is an article I found on getting Ron Paul supporters to vot for Romney/Ryan

http://www.hollywoodrepublican.net/...d-the-republicans-can-woo-libertarian-voters/

I would not vote for Romney with a 10-foot pole.

 

[VBRonPaulFan]

Romney was the one fella at the start of Republican campaign season that I actually hated more than Obama.

Now that i've seen his tactics in action, I hate the guy far more. I wouldn't vote to make him president of a local PTA league, let alone POTUS. He will NEVER EVER get my vote. i'll vote for the other republican tickets, but not for that scumbag.

I've decided i'll most likely vote Virgil Goode here in VA, he is expected to siphon off a LOT of votes from Rmoney here since he's a local guy that is well liked. If I can vote for someone far better than both Obama and Rmoney, while helping Rmoney lose a state, it's a total win/win for me.

 

[Cap]

Oh my, now this concept of voting for Mitt is funny as well as ridiculous. The article can't possibly be serious.

 

[Brett85]

Heck no, none of those three are any better than the other. I remember the days when I would rank order these types and think I could see daylight between them, but those days are over. GWB and his prescription drug program, NCLB, bailouts, and national offense iced that cake for me. It's disgusting the kinds of "differences" we're expected to see between all these guys, when fundamentally they're all status quo big gov't GOP'ers.

It's gotten simple for me now. Either you're actually going to be a conservative and be for this constitutionally limited federal gov't, or you're not. Give me a stage of the former; then we can have a debate on their differences.

Until then, I'll vote the guy who sees it like I do, or I'll go elsewhere. No more charade.

If conservative voters follow my lead, maybe we'll change things. If they continue to perpetuate the status quo, they'll get it.

My protest continues.

I'll probably cast a protest vote for a 3rd party candidate as well, but I live in a deeply red state. I think I would have to be more pragmatic if I lived in one of the swing states. Because as bad as Romney is, his policies are still better than Obama when you consider the fact that Romney wants to extend all of the Bush tax cuts, and Obama wants to extend none of them; Romney wants to tap into our oil reserves here in the U.S, Obama doesn't; Romney wants to repeal Obamacare (probably because it's unpopular, rather than opposing it philosphically,) Obama obviously won't repeal it; Romney wants to repeal Dodd-Frank and other regulations, Obama doesn't. Etc.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

With all due respect to this Nick Gillespie dude. He can go fuck himself. After the RNC bullshit, Mitt Romney is the LAST person that would get my vote.

Weeeelll, I have my own issues with Gillespie, but he's smart enough to know that not one of those three things will ever happen under RmoneyRyan.

I'm guessing that the purpose of this article will be more about having a record to go back and look after people start wondering why Rmoney didn't win. Someone blames it on the Paulers, and then we get to point to this article and say, "it's not about us but lots of Americans who maybe didn't even really LIKE Paul all that much, like Reason and Gillespie, and Rmoney's failed opportunity to make a difference here."

 

[P. R. Robinson]

My protest vote will go for Gary Johnson since they don't even count write-ins. If the Libertarian Party receives 5% of the vote in the presidential election it will be obvious to those bottom-sucking, deck stacking GOP NeoCon fat cats that they lost the election by the disrespect they showed to Ron Paul at their rigged convention!

 

[pcosmar]

My protest vote will go for Gary Johnson since they don't even count write-ins. If the Libertarian Party receives 5% of the vote in the presidential election it will be obvious to those bottom-sucking, deck stacking GOP NeoCon fat cats that they lost the election by the disrespect they showed to Ron Paul at their rigged convention!

And you really think they will give a shit?
Do you really think they give a shit which party wins?

They have just clearly demonstrated that they do no,, Both at the DNC and RNC.
They don't give a shit at all what the voters think..

 

[Brian4Liberty]

And you really think they will give a shit?

In fairness, some of them will care. On the other hand, the neo-conservatives would rather sink the ship then let someone else drive. They will choose to split the baby in half, every time.

 

[pcosmar]

In fairness, some of them will care.

The only ones that will care are not the ones running things.

The Republican Party is not run by the people of the United States and neither is the Democrat Party.
It is not run by those who are elected.

It is run to give a false illusion of choice,
It has been for quite some time.

 

[Agorism]

Obviously the majority of the forum posters lean GOP in general (ex. I've never voted for a single Democrat,) but if there was a poll forcing people to choose between Obama and Romney, I bet Obama would win.

 

[Uriah]

Romney and Obama will not get my vote. I haven't decided if I'll vote Johnson yet... but if I get polled I will say Johnson so he at least has a chance to get in the debates. That chance is a small one... but gotta try.

 

[EBounding]

If the county parties were smart, they would embrace the new folks and just accept they're not going to vote for Romney just to get more boots on the ground. These people were never going to vote for Romney anyway. They could say,

"We welcome all the new people! Now of course, we really want you to help Romney win. We think this is his time, but even if you don't that's ok! We know there are lots of other candidates you can get excited about and who need your support!"

A lot of people would actually do this, which could indirectly help Romney if they're getting undecideds to vote for any kind of Republican. But instead they're just threatening and burning bridges. Bad move for them and it's going to hurt them even more in the end.

 

[MozoVote]

Nice concept - but one of the reasons the state parties will continue to push Romney is that a GOP winning state gets more delegates in the subsequent presidential cycle. Even if Romney loses nationally, the state GOP wants to have been part of the "team" for greater influence in the future.

 

[doremedia]

I can not believe that people on this forum would vote for obama. ffs.

 

[pcosmar]

I can not believe that people on this forum would vote for obama. ffs.

I won't vote for him,, but he is likely the better choice of the two.

My observation,, and I have been watching since Carter,, is that each new President is worse than the last.
and the last couple, have been worse on a scale of magnitude..
Bush was worse than Clinton,,Obama worse than Bush,, Romney will likely be much worse than Obama.
So keeping Obama would be the less worse choice.

My God,, this shit sucks.