That’s just silly. Ron Paul’s message runs right into the teeth of almost every special interest that’s pulling the strings of our government today. If Ron Paul does not win, the special interests win–and it will be back to business as usual in Washington. Since Ross Perot, the ballot has offered only a choice between different subsets of special interests, never an option for driving these interests out of a process that’s supposed to be strictly about the people and their republic.

These are powerful corruptors, and only a president of the strongest principles could possibly resist them. And only a president with the strongest core message (the Constitution) can give the other policymakers the strength to resist as well. So I would say it is critically relevant whether Ron Paul wins or not.

This is the same argument used to silence those who oppose the war, by accusing them of endangering and demoralizing the troops.

It has always been crucial to the success of the freedom movement that people speak the truth as they see it, when they see it. Don’t wait till later. Speak up now, and speak the truth.

What we should fight are lies of commission and lies of omission. The truth is on our side — we have nothing to fear from it.

If FRudy McRomneyson, is the GOP nominee, then it will be time to support a Libertarian candidate, until then, Ron Paul is the most Libertarian candidate in politics right now.

Finally, I don’t really care which libertarian get the Libertarian nomination, they will be just fine with me, and short of a Ron Paul option as the GOP candidate, I will happily vote for any of them.

Used to be, the chances of a libertarian candidate winning were zero and none. Ron Paul’s chances are at least slim and none. His chances improve to “just maybe” if we can all get behind him and push real real hard.

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What I simply am asking is that the Libertarians realize that Ron Paul may not be 100% in the mold they expect (I actually think he is more Libertarian than most Libertarians I’ve met though). At the same time, when they wait around for the right candidate they end up waiting a long time and fielding someone who TRULY doesn’t have a chance of winning.

Ron Paul does have a chance and it’s a good chance. The so-called front runners are burning through cash and parrotiing the same old tired rhetoric. Ron Paul’s thoughts and record are becoming more mainstream. When I ask people to look into Dr.Paul they invariably come back to me and affirm that they’d vote for him. This is not what you’d expect from a candiate with “no chance” of winning. All it means is his exposure needs to be ramped up. The Internet is doing that very cheaply and well and we need to support him and his candidacy and that doesn’t mean speaking ill of his chances.

And if it doesn’t work out–for any number of reasons–you can always choose later to settle for the two party default position.

All it takes is enough people thinking outside the box: you KNOW that this man’s ethic IS the main-stream American ethic, based primarily on liberty.

He can win. Expect a lot of flack from various invested quarters for various, mostly, phony reasons. Blow’em off. The present establishment on the right or the left is scared to death of this man and what he represents. Let’s give them something more to angst over!!

I’ve already signed up for the next local meetup and will ask there about ways to help out his campaign.

But what I’m fighting against is the traditional libertarian temptation to give up and vote for a mainstream democrat and republican.

If I got all “OMG he’s going to WINZORZ” I’d just be dismissed as yet another crackpot and fanboy.

Which I’m not.

But I’m tired of us throwing our votes away. And the fact of the matter is most libertarians don’t think candidates they agree with on most issues can win. What I’m trying to do is give people a reason to vote for those candidates anyway.

Look, if you’d vote for the guy then don’t assume he won’t win. Work to show confidence in the candidate. If you are going to say he won’t win then just do everyone a favor and keep your opinion to yourself or just stop publicizing it. Whenever commentators say use this ridiculous “he won’t win” attitude it reinforces the belief.

You’re not showing everyone how smart you are by saying he won’t win. Everyone knows it’s aready going to be a tough race. You’re only helping his opponents.