This is why we fight.... Last night, John Spivey and I got to speak briefly at the first Ron Paul/Campaign For Liberty meetup since the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa.
At the Tampa convention, Ron Paul's supporters were declared losers in voice votes that they obviously won. Some of their state delegations weren't seated. The Republican Party made it very, very clear that the Paul supporters weren't welcome. Hell, they actually want the government to spend less money !!
Note to readers in the UK and elsewhere.... Congressman Ron Paul (now retired) was a libertarian with a small l. He championed all of the same values as the Libertarian party, but usually chose to remain a Republican. Republicans have been in power longer, have more money, and are on the winning side of the "wasted vote" fallacy.
(The wasted vote fallacy goes like this.... "I can't possibly vote for the Libertarian candidate. If I don't vote for the Republican, the Democrat will win.")
There is a growing Liberty movement within the Republican Party. Unfortunately, it is aligned with the champions of bloated military budgets, gay/lesbian hatred, corporate subsidies, import quotas, the drug war, and the Noah's Ark preservation society.
Ron Paul lost his bid to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 because of the blatant dishonesty of the Republican convention process, and perhaps because the majority of the delegates were drunk enough to nominate the godfather of ObamaCare, Mitt Romney.
Back to what happened at the meeting....
After listening to Jeremy (the group leader) describe a horrifying Republican party convention where Ron Paul delegates and supporters were intentionally kidnapped and driven around Tampa for 3 hours by treacherous bus drivers who had no intention of taking them to the convention site, plus hundreds of incidents of parliamentary skullduggery, and thugs separating delegates from their groups, plus blatant disregard for the will of the delegation, I got my chance to address the group.
I told them what their philosophical, economic, and political brothers in the Libertarian party had been up to. I thanked them for working so hard for liberty. And then I couldn't help myself.... I asked the group if any of them STILL voted for Mitt Romney, despite being treated like Zoo Dirt by the Republican Party.
Only two men raised their hands. (I suspect that those two masochists enjoy having their wives spank them with hairbrushes, being made to clean the toilet with their toothbrushes, all while being told that they've been naughty, naughty, naughty.)
Then someone asked how many people voted for the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson.
2/3rds of the people in the room raised their hands.
Some of these people were delegates to the Republican state convention and national convention!
Rand Paul (Dr. Ron Paul's son) will not be the Republican nominee for president in 2016. The Republicans would nominate a cocker spaniel before they would nominate a small-government chip from the Ron Paul block. Someone like Chris Christie or Paul Ryan will get the nod.
And once again, THE Libertarian party will be waiting for the Republican Liberty Movement voters with open arms, along with promises that they won't be kidnapped and driven around Tampa for three hours.
We're on the winning side. Gary Johnson for president, 2016.
At the Tampa convention, Ron Paul's supporters were declared losers in voice votes that they obviously won. Some of their state delegations weren't seated. The Republican Party made it very, very clear that the Paul supporters weren't welcome. Hell, they actually want the government to spend less money !!
Note to readers in the UK and elsewhere.... Congressman Ron Paul (now retired) was a libertarian with a small l. He championed all of the same values as the Libertarian party, but usually chose to remain a Republican. Republicans have been in power longer, have more money, and are on the winning side of the "wasted vote" fallacy.
(The wasted vote fallacy goes like this.... "I can't possibly vote for the Libertarian candidate. If I don't vote for the Republican, the Democrat will win.")
There is a growing Liberty movement within the Republican Party. Unfortunately, it is aligned with the champions of bloated military budgets, gay/lesbian hatred, corporate subsidies, import quotas, the drug war, and the Noah's Ark preservation society.
Ron Paul lost his bid to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012 because of the blatant dishonesty of the Republican convention process, and perhaps because the majority of the delegates were drunk enough to nominate the godfather of ObamaCare, Mitt Romney.
Back to what happened at the meeting....
After listening to Jeremy (the group leader) describe a horrifying Republican party convention where Ron Paul delegates and supporters were intentionally kidnapped and driven around Tampa for 3 hours by treacherous bus drivers who had no intention of taking them to the convention site, plus hundreds of incidents of parliamentary skullduggery, and thugs separating delegates from their groups, plus blatant disregard for the will of the delegation, I got my chance to address the group.
I told them what their philosophical, economic, and political brothers in the Libertarian party had been up to. I thanked them for working so hard for liberty. And then I couldn't help myself.... I asked the group if any of them STILL voted for Mitt Romney, despite being treated like Zoo Dirt by the Republican Party.
Only two men raised their hands. (I suspect that those two masochists enjoy having their wives spank them with hairbrushes, being made to clean the toilet with their toothbrushes, all while being told that they've been naughty, naughty, naughty.)
Then someone asked how many people voted for the Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson.
2/3rds of the people in the room raised their hands.
Some of these people were delegates to the Republican state convention and national convention!
Rand Paul (Dr. Ron Paul's son) will not be the Republican nominee for president in 2016. The Republicans would nominate a cocker spaniel before they would nominate a small-government chip from the Ron Paul block. Someone like Chris Christie or Paul Ryan will get the nod.
And once again, THE Libertarian party will be waiting for the Republican Liberty Movement voters with open arms, along with promises that they won't be kidnapped and driven around Tampa for three hours.
We're on the winning side. Gary Johnson for president, 2016.
