On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Posted on Thu, Dec. 29, 2011 > *GOP Establishment wrong to ‘disenfranchise’ Ron Paul supporters > *BY COLIN MCINTOSH > > Don’t tread on me. > > Recently, something’s been amiss in the mainstream media when discussing > Ron Paul’s candidacy. As the Texas congressman’s support has surged to 15 > percent nationally in the latest Washington Post poll, the “Very Serious > Republicans” who write columns and give their opinions on TV and radio > shows have changed their tune. They aren’t as confident, as cocky or as > arrogant as they used to be when predicting the 2012 presidential election. > > Now, they sound scared; they sound nervous; they sound shaken. But most > important, they sound resolute that they, and not their audience, represent > the opinions of mainstream America. They are wrong, and their gamble will > be costly. > > In the absence of facts to support the Establishment candidates, the media > have turned to personal insults, childish mockery, and deliberate > misinterpretation of Dr. Paul’s lessons. Their goal, quite shamefully, is > to convince Ron Paul supporters that the candidate that they believe in has > no chance of winning the nomination, let alone the general election. Here > are some recent headlines from around the web: “Huckabee slams Ron Paul, > says he has ‘no chance’ to win Republican nomination” The Hill “Ron Paul > can’t be allowed to win Iowa” Daily Caller “Why Ron Paul Can’t Win” > Wall Street Journal “If Ron Paul wins Iowa, does that make the state > irrelevant?” Christian Science Monitor > > This type of overt pressure from our media to change your vote because > “your candidate can’t win” constitutes a form of disenfranchisement. > Despite Paul’s rise to the front of the pack in Iowa, the media still > ignore that his national support from Republicans has risen from 9 percent > to 15 percent in a month (Washington Post/ABC poll, Dec. 18). They refuse > to report the fact that he would lose only by 49-44 in a hypothetical race > against Obama, down from 52-42 just one month ago. > > They will never tell us that 21 percent of Americans polled chose to vote > for Ron Paul as a third party candidate over the hypothetical choices of > President Obama or Romney/Gingrich. > > This last statistic leads me to my main point: if the GOP nominates anyone > besides Ron Paul, Barack Obama will win the 2012 election. > > Why? > > Currently, Establishment Republicans are issuing an obvious warning to > Paul’s base: vote for Romney, or the Democrats will win in November. > Clearly, they hope this ominous bit of advice also reaches the millions of > Americans who are still learning about Ron Paul’s views. Well, Dr. Paul’s > supporters have a retort: we don’t give a damn. > > There are worse things than having a Democrat in the White House, and > disenfranchisement is among them. We will not vote for whom we are told. We > will not vote for a candidate who espouses a policy of preemptive war. We > will not vote for the continuation of a flawed, costly, discriminatory drug > war. We will not vote for the circumnavigation of the U.S. Constitution. We > will not vote for a candidate (Romney) who has received just 10 percent of > his campaign donations from actual people (from opensecrets.org). And we > will not feel remorse for a Republican Party that has abandoned us. > > I am a registered Republican, but when I listen to my so-called party > leaders, I become infuriated and despondent. When did preemptive war become > our national defense? When did the desire to police the world become so > mainstream that we forgot that our nation was birthed from a repugnance to > imperialism? When did we concede that the federal government has the right > to regulate our lives to the point of quiet despotism? > > And most important, when did we become convinced that our votes and voices > only matter if we support the perceived frontrunner? > > As an advocate of liberty, I will vote on principle over party, every > time. If the Republican Party took the time to educate its members on the > issues, rather than simply bullying them into submission, their party > wouldn’t be so splintered right now, and perhaps Dr. Paul would have a > unified force behind him heading into November. Instead, GOP leaders seem > committed to promoting the status quo, to increasing their own power and > influence, and to keeping the support of moneyed interests. > > If the GOP Establishment is successful in convincing Republicans to > nominate Romney instead of Paul, and Paul does indeed run as an > independent, Obama will win with 45 percent of the vote, and the GOP will > have no one to blame but themselves. > > > Colin McIntosh, a resident of Fort Lauderdale and graduate of St. Thomas > Aquinas High School, is a senior at Emory University in Atlanta and will > graduate this spring with bachelor degrees in economics and business > administration. > > http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/29/2566016/gop-establishment-wrong-to-disenfranchise.html > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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