Why I'm Voting for Romney in the General Election and Not Gary Johnson

[green73]

Yes, choose Romney because the robed deities he will pick will be less evil!

Funny how the political process pretty much boils done to picking the guy you hope will rape you less.

 

[DeMintConservative]

Yes, choose Romney because the robed deities he will pick will be less evil!

Funny how the political process pretty much boils done to picking the guy you hope will rape you less.

There's nothing funny about it.

It's always been like that.

The existence of politics is in itself a necessary evil.

Acting as if politics can be more than a succession of imperfect and often painful choices is immanentizing the eschaton.

 

[Travlyr]

That movement already exists. Most of us are already part of it.

Yes. Liberty has a lot of enemies from both Oligarchs and people who just don't get it. The Constitution is what limits government. The Oligarchs want no part of it and neither do people who just don't understand the world in which they live.

"Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints.

Liberalism is not anarchism, nor has it anything whatsoever to do with anarchism. The liberal understands quite clearly that without resort to compulsion, the existence of society would be endangered and that behind the rules of conduct whose observance is necessary to assure peaceful human cooperation must stand the threat of force if the whole edifice of society is not to be continually at the mercy of any one of its members. One must be in a position to compel the person who will not respect the lives, health, personal freedom, or private property of others to acquiesce in the rules of life in society. This is the function that the liberal doctrine assigns to the state: the protection of property, liberty, and peace." -- Ludwig von Mises

 

[HigherVision]

Conservative court could be worse for mah weed

 

[The Dude]

Gary Johnson is a fantastic candidate. I will enthusiastically support him in the general. Any Ron Paul supporter who can sacrifice his/her principles to vote for a piece of garbage like Romney never supported liberty to begin with. There's no such thing as a lesser of two evils when it comes to freedom and the constitution. Either you support it or you don't.

 

[ZenBowman]

Ahh, falling for the same old stupidity that they throw at you year after year I see.

 

[jbauer]

Really? Someone with 1400 posts on RPF is here preaching about voting for Romney? Heck did you take that page right out of Rand's playbook?

Screw Obamney and everything they stand for.

 

[DamianTV]

We need to get rid of the Federalist society appointments.

We need an anti-Federalists society. There is one of sorts but it's tiny.

^^^ WINS THREAD ^^^

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

The Constitution is what limits government.

It was a designed attempt to, but I'm not sure it has in any of our lifetimes.

 

[SpicyTurkey]

Romney and Obama: Two sides of the same deformed shit.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

We're always voting for fallible people. Where is the bright line where voting for the lesser evil is unacceptable and why do you insist on imposing that bright line on other people?

Harsh criticism, or just criticism in general, is not the same thing as "imposing that... line on other people." Since when did using persuasion and logical discourse amount to imposition by liberty standards? As far as I am concerned, it is perfectly fine for people to tell others what to do or what to think, as long as force is not used.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

If the country is going off a cliff I say run it into the ground with a democrat in charge.

When are people going to stop falling for the false D and R conflict??? Who cares if it's a Democrat? They're all puppet leaders.

 

[Agorism]

Ya...

so zero chance I'd vote for Romney regardless of judges.

I distinctly remember watching a conservative cry on Fox News when McCain lost, and it was pretty damn funny.

If Romney blows the election up like McCain did, I'll laugh just as hard.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

^^^ WINS THREAD ^^^

Indeed. I wish that, instead of having Democrats and Republicans, we still had the old Federalists and Anti-federalists. I feel like that would be a much more open, educated, and free society, even though the anti-feds didn't want political parties to begin with. Look how right they turned out to be.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Ya...

so zero chance I'd vote for Romney regardless of judges.

I distinctly remember watching a conservative cry on Fox News when McCain lost, and it was pretty damn funny.

If Romney blows the election up like McCain did, I'll laugh just as hard.

I would pay good money to see Romney cry.

 

[jonhowe]

If you don't live in a swing state you have no reason not to vote third party.

100% true. These words should be plastered on the top of every page here.

 

[cucucachu0000]

yea i thought of the same thing, but it doesnt make much of a difference to me anymore, part of the reason the supreme court doesnt make the right decisions is because most of the justices believe if the congress passed something its what the people want and the constitution takes a back seat to what the people want. we change congress the senate and the presidency and the way laws are discussed in this country first by being principled and not standing for these crooks for president. when the supreme court sees the changes they will change as well. politicians reflect the people they represent, if your not principled enough to vote for only people you believe in what makes you think those politicians will be principled?

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

The court has largely been a joke for the last 80 years, it will continue to disappoint.

 

[Kotin]

I will never vote for Mitt Romney.

 

[angelatc]

Then why did Romney make himself sound so hawkish regarding Iran during the GOP debates?

For the same reason that Obama sometimes took on a dovish tone when he was running in 2008. Pandering to the audience. We don't have a good candidate in the race - all of them are isolationists that don't want to even talk about talking with the enemy-of-the-month.