Thurs. 12/04/12 00:07 EDT
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[url=Santorum drops out. - #41 by John_James]
I read it.
[url=http://lewrockwell.com/holland/holland61.1.html]
I think anyone who believes Romney’s “guarantees” will find that, once again, he has been lied to and duped.
“We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.” - Sydney Schanberg.
Perhaps not, though. Perhaps “the plan” is another four years of Obama, which is why Romney is the “chosen one”: He’d lose. It also explains why the GOP, the media, and the unseen PTB hate Ron Paul so much: He’d win.
Holland suggests a third party candidacy is “political insanity and would constitute an establishment promoted death trap for millions of Ron Paul supporters and liberty advocates,” and points to a (depressing) chart of “Libertarian Party Results in U.S. presidential elections.”
I think it’s quite possible that, were Ron Paul to run Libertarian, that party would see election results considerably better than anything previously achieved. But this is not, in my opinion, what is important.
What is important is the spread of ideas. Ron Paul has publicly reiterated the “power of an idea whose time has come,” and as a propagator and promoter of the freedom philosophy, he has been wildly successful. In this sense, he has already won. His campaign, sites like Mises.org combined with the internet, and all the newly-spawned libertarians kicking intellectual ass every day, are turning what were once a few smoldering embers into a raging forest fire.
I’m both optimistic and pyromanic.