"GOP should be able to keep out those who are registered to and will vote for another party.
Oh and to think I actually tried to recruit Democrats and Independent to vote for Ron Paul and argued that such voters could lead Paul to victory. If some GOP flunkie said that to you in 2008, you'd chide him for running the GOP like a treehouse fort exclusive only to yourself instead of building a broad-based party. But now in 2014 after losing a little Senate runoff in Mississippi, some of the butthurt want to act exactly the way the establishment would have reacted if Paul had won a state like New Hampshire or South Carolina with crossover voters. We welcome people with open arms when we're winning and act like border patrol guards when we lose. Such amazing consistency! We're libertarians on Tuesday and conservatives on Wednesday.
Seven years of this and some people on RPF still don't get it. Let me ask you, did McDaniels make any effort to make foreign policy an issue in the race? Hmm? (It is a Senate race you know) Did he come out forcefully say no U.S. troops or any more money spent in Iraq and a vote Cochran is a vote for war, especially since Cochran had attacked Ron Paul? Had he done so don't you think he might have prevented some black voters from turning out for Cochran (after all, who's going to vote for a war monger?) and might have won the election? Hmmm, anyone down there think of that?
Some of you people think the U.S. is going to hell because Thad Cochran got the federal funds to get a bridge built in Noxubee County (even though RP had no problem with such earmarks in his old congressional district). One piddly little bridge compared to billions spent on the Military-Industrial Complex, on the wars, and on national security state. And it's not just the tax money you save when cut this sh*t out, when you close the foreign bases and cut the golf courses for the brass. It's the power that you take away from them to f*ck with your lives. That is the essence of the Ron Paul Revolution!
The reality is Cochran's victory in the long term doesn't really mean much because he's the past and candiates like McDaniels are the future. But it's not going to be much of a future unless McDaniels and his ilk understand the point I just made. I didn't join the "Revolution" to be Ayn Rand acolyte. I joined it because Ron Paul, to quote Ted Kennedy, "saw war and tried to stop it". There's something decent and noble and emotionally uplifting about being a part of something like that and attracted people WHO WEREN'T ALL F'ING REPUBLICANS! to his standard because to build a movement that would secure our freedoms and liberties and save money and reduce the size of government and make us a decent country again all in one. And when McDaniels and some of around here figure that out, maybe they'll start winning a few elections for once.
Here you all are objecting to Cochran reaching out for the black vote and yet who do we all know is trying to do the same thing? Seems to me either way Rand Paul was going to come out ahead tonight and that's pretty smart politics.
