Liberty Shark
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- May 18, 2011
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1) I highly doubt Romney can actually win. Sure, he may take these first states through Florida, but these states have been controlled by the establishment like crazy. If they try to tell people its over after Florida, when only a tiny fraction of delegates have been won, people will go berserk. Once this process gets to places like Texas, Montana, Idaho, California, Mississippi - I think with a one-on-one fight between Dr. Paul and Romney, at that point Dr. Paul starts to win some of these states in 1st place.
2)If somehow Dr. Paul does not win, I would guess (just a suspicion) that he does not endorse GOP nominee, but may try to influence platform. However, he could in theory endorse Gary Johnson as the Libertarian party nominee. Although I really have no idea. My guess is he leaves it up for people to make their own decision.
3) I do know that it would be absolutely stupid and completely absurd for Rand to NOT endorse the GOP nominee if Dr. Paul does not win. Sure, I wish he would not, but let's be realistic here. He has a great chance of winning the GOP nomination eventually, why ruin that chance? In the long-term, the best odds of advancing liberty is going to be through the republican party. The young voters are supporting Dr. Paul in huge percentages, and 4-8 yrs from now they will be older, the current senior voters who have been supporting under 10% will be gone (sorry but its the truth), and the next round of young people will be eligible to vote. The future of the republican party appears to be headed towards libertarianism. We cannot allow the neocons to try to do to libertarianism what they did to conservatism. Third parties are not going to be successful under the current rules, maybe in a parliamentary-type system or parts of Europe where they distribute seats by proportion of vote, but not here.
