Obama promised change, but things have stayed exactly the same. Many Democrats are disgusted with him. Some Democrats may vote for him simply because it is their affiliated party. The same goes for Republicans. They too don’t want Obama reelected, but they will vote for candidates due to their party affiliation.
If FOX News or CNN or ANY other news station says a Republican candidate is electable or is “in the lead” *cough* Newt Gingrich *cough*, then the Republicans jump on the bandwagon. They are like sheep – stupid, brainwashed, easily-molded sheep. They don’t know about politics, and if they think they do, most candidates lie anyways. Look at Obama, Bush, Cain, Gingrich, Romney, Perry, and all of the others. There is one man who stands out, though – Ron Paul, possibly the reincarnation of Jesus/Buddha/Allah/The Flying Spaghetti Monster himself.
DRUGS –
Ron Paul does not advocate the legalization of drugs as many think, but rather he wants to give states the choice. This country was founded on state power. The federal government reigns supreme, however. We might as well have King George III as our president. Anyways, drug cartels only exist because drugs are illegal. The War on Drugs OBVIOUSLY doesn’t work with… oh, I don’t know… about 55% of the population supporting the legalization of pot and probably more smoking it? This futile War also strengthens the drugs cartels. Hard choice, right? Obviously, meth, crack, and the like are much more controversial. But weed is causing violence, filling up our prisons, and making us pay taxes.
Do you, dear reader, know how much money our government spends annually to pay for pot-smoking “criminals'” jail sentences? A whopping 7 BILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY. If we got rid of that, we would forget all about the deficit. What deficit? Exactly <3 One last point in this subject is an excise tax on marijuana, just like on alcohol and cigarettes. This is more cash flow to help with the recession.
VOTES-
Why do so many people think he is unelectable? He has young people's votes, veterans' votes, soldiers' votes, stoners' votes, economists' votes, and many Independent and Democratic votes. Blue Republicans are people that are usually Democrats but are registering Republican ONLY to VOTE for RON PAUL. And oh boy are there a lot of Blue Republicans. Independents would rather vote for Ron Paul than Obama or the mainstream GOP. Speaking of mainstream, why doesn't FOX News, or any other station for that matter, talk about Ron Paul? They say the front-runners are Cain, Romney, and Gingrich, but they fail to mention that Ron Paul is up there with them, actually surpassing Gingrich and Cain and close to Romney. He is winning in Iowa, haven't you heard? If not, then Google "Ron Paul Iowa." I'm sure you'll find plenty of pages on this.
The mainstream do not want him getting attention because the Republicans want a filthy, lying candidate – a candidate that goes against what he advocates.
He has the highest electability among all of the Republican candidates. If Romney runs, how many Democrats or Independents are going to vote for him instead of their own respective parties. If Ron Paul runs, he will get a massive amount of votes from Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, most of which will vote for him ONLY because he is Republican… but no matter. He is the only option.
Any other areas, which there are PLENTY of, people should write about 😛 I don't feel like writing more right now because I have a shitload of college homework to do before finals.
Happy St. Paul's Day :3
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Why Do People Think Ron Paul Is Not Electable? And Why Does The News Try To Hide Him So Much? Seriously?
Posted on November 30, 2011.
They ignore him because he IS electable. That’s what they’re afraid of. He can’t be bought like the other candidates, which makes him dangerous to certain people.
Because he doesn’t serve the “elite’s” agenda.
You left out the EXTREMELY old and crazy part, the Birch Society thing doesn’t help either.
The only people who support him now are crazy people and uninformed people.
If he won the nomination, the uninformed would become informed and change their minds.
The crazy people would stay the same.
Ron Paul advocates extreme positions. For example he advocates a return to the gold standard and abolishing the Federal Reserve Bank. That is just nonsense.
His poll numbers just are not there.
And the Liberal media is going to focus on destroying the frontrunners.
As for FOX, they are going to pick the 3 or 4 top candidates and focus on them.
I’ve heard it’s because he’s a “real conservative” as opposed to the neocons that glut the Republican party now.
He won’t suck the money tit and sell himself to the wealthy few who control America today.
“the media ignores Ron Paul” is self contradictory, how did you hear about Ron Paul in the first place?
I heard him enough in the media to dislike him, and he is not going to legalize weed.
Ron Paul runs up against too many entrenched interests and long-held ideologies – I don’t buy the ‘media is burying him’ meme though.
He would be a breath of fresh air – but unfortunately the one-party system in this country (disguised as a two-party system) is uninterested in new ideas, and only has one agenda.
Propagating itself.
Because, well, he isn’t electable.
A candidate has to have not just deep support (which Ron Paul does), but wide support (which he doesn’t).
By deep, we know that his supporters are very vocal and dedicated. But width of support means that there have to be a lot of people who like him. Maybe not as a first choice, but as a first, second or third choice.
This is why seasoned political watchers know that he isn’t electable. So many times in politics, you can’t go with your top choice and you need to settle for your #2 or #3 choice. And Ron Paul has deep but narrow support. What does that mean? It means that he is either at the top of someone’s list, or at the bottom. He’s NOBODY’s second choice.
I know you are upset with the current crop of politicians. But that doesn’t make Ron Paul more electable. Wishing doesn’t make it so.
The fact is, when the primaries start, you’ll see how very low he comes in. Just like four years ago.
Even Fox News thinks he is not electable. His Libertarian platform has not changed in some 20 years. No one is interested in dismantleing the government. He will not get hardly any Democratic votes and would only get the extreme right wing voting for him. The other republicans would either vote Democratic or more likely stay home and watch Dancing with the Stars. z
Ron Paul can and will win if Americans actually researched him and did their homework as opposed to drinking the MSM swill they’re being spoon fed.
As far as the polls go – see my link below.
“the CEO of pollster Insider Advantage, Matt Towery, headed Newt Gingrich’s congressional campaigns from 1992 until he left Congress in 1999.” Gingrich is winning this poll.
So my question is this, when the MSM makes such a big deal out of these polls is the tail really wagging the dog here?
Because analysts don’t think Ron Paul can merge both social conservative and libertarian into his constitutional libertarian platform and beat the heck out of the communitarian neocons that run the Republican party. But when you look carefully it’s clear that home schoolers are coalescing around Ron Paul, so are former Huckabee 2008 bloggers.
Who said Ron Paul wasn’t electable?
His ideas are too extreme for the common citizen.
We ignore him because he reminds of Ross Perot. An unelectable extremist. Probably paid by the Dimocrat machine to syphon votes from the Republican candidate.
Libertarianism is insanity, that’s why. He definitely will not have my vote.
Because he is a lunatic.. his foreign policy is a little of the wall..