NYT: Will Ron Paul Supporters Get Behind a Republican Nominee Not Named Paul?

[LoneWolf]

Nope Nope Nope. Will not back any Republican candidate other than Dr. Paul. If he runs 3rd party or candidate will vote for him then if he does not and doesn't get nomination I will vote Constitution Party. I will not vote for Johnson because I don't believe in homosexual marriage as he does. I personally think the government needs to get the hell out of marriage.

 

[Matthew Zak]

Hey Mainstream Media.

4 years ago we explicitly told you that the GOP is not your party any more. You laughed at us.

We booted out several neocons in a sweeping tea party victory in 2010. You thought you could hijack the movement as if it were as simple as catching wind with your sails.

We are close to an upset in Iowa, and accounting for at least 15% of likely national republican voters (15% that will absolutely tip the scales one way or the other), and you are still refusing to read the writing on the wall.

You are obsolete.

NO ONE BUT PAUL. Or Gary Johnson.

 

[lx43]

No one but Paul.

 

[low preference guy]

Of course not, they're a bunch of youngsters who care only about legalizing pot.

 

[White Bear Lake]

I'll probably support GOP Senate and Congressional candidates. But not Romney or any of the other Presidential candidates. If we can't get Paul, having a GOP Senate and House that will block everything Obama presents leading to four years of gridlock is unfortunately the next best thing. Hopefully we can get Rand a win then.

 

[thecoloredsky]

Mark Steyn was filling in for Rush the other day and said it boils down to "anybody but Obama." My dad agreed and asked if that was what I thought as well. While I agree to a certain point, I responded, "Jefferson and the rest of the founding fathers didn't risk their lives so I could vote for a loser politician who votes for the same thing as Obama but flies under a different party color." He shut right up. I'm voting Paul even if I have to write his name on the ballot.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

For us: Anybody but Paul, for the GOP, anybody but Obama, except for Paul.

 

[AdamT]

Nope.

 

[Vessol]

I remember someone at CPAC asked me this in Feb. I laughed and explained to him that I'm not voting Republican, I'm voting Ron Paul.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

You just don't get it. Our country is in an existential crisis, and it's not radical Islam. We either restore the Constitution or America is done. You people who think there is some value in party loyalty have forgotten that it was George Bush who delivered us to Obama's doorstep, and now you want us to help you elect another George Bush?


There is no difference between Obama and Bush. There was no difference between Obama and McCain, and there will be no difference between Obama and Romney. You are asking me to join in your…treason…and vote to destroy the America I love and am this very moment willing to die to defend.


I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Today, our enemies are right here at home, and they are you lot who oppose the only man that can and will save America in this current crisis.


Ron Paul is the only candidate I can support, because he is the only candidate who is not an enemy of the Constitution, and as far as your outrage against Ron Paul and me for the position we hold, that makes you an enemy of the Constitution too, and I hereby before God pledge my life in the defense against your despicable treason.


NO ONE BUT PAUL!

 

[givemeliberty2010]

DES MOINES — With Representative Ron Paul performing solidly in Republican presidential polls – and near the top in Iowa – a recurring question nags at political wise-guys: Will the Texas libertarian’s corps of loyal and energized supporters be an asset to an eventual Republican nominee?


Or will they be a liability if that nominee is not named Ron Paul — meaning, they will vote only for Mr. Paul as a third-party or write-in candidate, or stay home altogether, which would probably help the prospective Democratic nominee, President Obama?

Based on discussion with a dozen supporters at candidate events across the state — including a Paul rally of about 500 here Wednesday night – the Paul Posse contains a considerable “Ron or I’m Gone” population.

Of those people interviewed, three said they would vote for the Republican nominee if it was not Mr. Paul, and two said they were not sure. But seven respondents said they would support only Mr. Paul in the general election – either as a write-in or a third-party candidate (the latter of which Mr. Paul has not ruled out). Ideally, they said, he would be the Republican nominee.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/...necessarily-party-voters/?partner=rss&emc=rss

I almost certainly won't get behind another Republican nominee, unless there's a brokered convention. How am I a "liability" to the Republican Party, though. Either they gain my vote with a Paul nomination, or they don't gain it.

 

[lakerssuck92]

All the other candidates have already come out and said Paul has a 0% chance of winning the nomination. Well, I say they'll find out what a 0% chance of winning feels like in the general election when we don't vote for them...

 

[lx43]

You just don't get it. Our country is in an existential crisis, and it's not radical Islam. We either restore the Constitution or America is done. You people who think there is some value in party loyalty have forgotten that it was George Bush who delivered us to Obama's doorstep, and now you want us to help you elect another George Bush?


There is no difference between Obama and Bush. There was no difference between Obama and McCain, and there will be no difference between Obama and Romney. You are asking me to join in your…treason…and vote to destroy the America I love and am this very moment willing to die to defend.


I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Today, our enemies are right here at home, and they are you lot who oppose the only man that can and will save America in this current crisis.


Ron Paul is the only candidate I can support, because he is the only candidate who is not an enemy of the Constitution, and as far as your outrage against Ron Paul and me for the position we hold, that makes you an enemy of the Constitution too, and I hereby before God pledge my life in the defense against your despicable treason.


NO ONE BUT PAUL!

+Rep

 

[Sunstruck-Eden]

I vote for no one but the finest.

NO ONE BUT PAUL, MSM.

 

[MikeStanart]

Nobody but Paul. I vote with my conscience, not party.

Why would I vote for a candidate propped up by the very people who tried character assassinations out on the contemporary leader of Liberty?

 

[acptulsa]

Non issue.

There won't be an eventual G.O.P. presidential nominee who is not named Paul.

We're going to be on that convention like white on rice. Get used to it.

 

[Schiff_FTW]

They act like the libertarian vote belongs to the Republican Party. How is that again? We are for small government. If they need our vote so bad, they might want to try actually being for small government as well. The empty rhetoric isn't cutting it.

 

[moonbat]

I just heard again on Fox that Ron Paul doesn't matter so guess what... HELL NO! No One But Paul!

 

[Eric21ND]

I'll vote for the Gary Johnson/Jesse Ventura ticket being formed on the libertarian ballot.

 

[Kuthreck]

NO ONE BUT PAUL!

BRING BACK AMERICA!