" so why not just do it this one time, even if the chances of it mattering are insignifficant, as a token of appreciation for Ron Paul’s unexpected and encouraging wave so far? Just in the off chance that you may be wrong about your estimates/predictions. What’s the most you could lose? "
Not going to betray my values for Ron Paul. Nothing against the guy, nothing against what he preaches. I won’t engage in the ballot box war.
“In my opinion it seems silly not to vote if your reason is built upon integrity and not being hypocritical. Statists already think you are hypocritical because you engage in society e.g pay taxes, use public roads and transport. Unless you somehow manage to avoid the state entirely, your already compromising.”
If they present that agrument then I will confront it. I will not be a soldier for the masses bent on projecting their ideals onto others.
I have no problem voting and it can actually make a difference in primaries. I encourage everyone to vote for RP and maybe encourage your friends to do so, as well. If we could even just get him nominated, it would shake the establishment to the core. Look at how many concessions in rhetoric they’ve already had to make?
No one talked about the Fed 4 years ago and any time Ron Paul brought it up, it was like (I think Jon Stewart said this): “there goes crazy uncle Ron again!” Now, the MSM is making a big hoopla over the “troop withdrawal” from Iraq. Do you really think they’d be trumpeting that as a good thing if they could get away with their usual spin that “it’s going to affect the economy by increasing unemployment as troop deployments end” and the rest of the usual bullshit? I don’t want to get too carried away but I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Ron Paul is entirely responsible for the discussion of the Federal Reserve in the Republican primaries and also for this big splash coming from the Obama administration about pulling out a few troops from Iraq. Careful inspection shows that this “pull out” is no more of a pull-out than Germany, Japan or Korea. Who’s going to be working in this building, Iraqi pols and American Peace Corps volunteers???
Clayton -
Clayton, +1.
A potential RP vs. Obama 2012 face-off would be epic and could change the course of history for the next hundred years. I have a pet theory of mine that a vast majority of Obama supporters (Democrats) are simply economically ignorant, latent RP supporters. RP could win the general election (by a landslide) if he only managed to educate enough people quickly enough about the most efficient (and often ONLY available) means for achiveing the ends most normal people share.