This country is a disgrace. There are 3.1 million registered Republicans and 4.1 million registered Democrats in PA. Yesterday, only 800,000 Republicans and 609,000 Democrats voted in the primaries. That is 26% and 15% voter participation respectively. If the people of this country don’t give a fuck, then they deserve everything that will come crashing down on their heads in the next 15 years. Ron Paul only got 13% of the vote and none of his delegates got elected to the convention. I’m ashamed of my State and my Country. The GOP establishment handed out voting lists with the Ron Paul delegates blacked out with the words NOT ENDORSED next to the blacked out names.
We are truly a country of sheeple being led to slaughter. The willful ignorance of the majority is revolting. It is sad how the majority have chosen bread and circuses over their civic duty to future generations. We are headed down a path to destruction and no one cares or even notices.
Ron Paul vs. Mitt Romney: Voters Choose Paul as the True Conservative in 2012
As expected, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney remains the clear Republican frontrunner after five more GOP primary victories in Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Texas Representative Ron Paul, however, continues to improve upon his 2008 election bid, pushing his total delegate count (which stood at 72 prior to Tuesday’s primaries) well past the 40 Republican delegates he won in his 2008 presidential bid.
Even while Romney inches closer to achieving the total number of delegates he needs to win the Republican nomination, Paul’s prominence in the primaries thus far has accentuated the ideological differences between the two candidates. Paul’s success in 2012 demonstrates the growing appeal of truly limited government and devotion to the protection of individual rights, which distinguish Paul’s libertarianism from Romney’s more traditional Republican conservatism.
For starters, Paul decried the cost in lives and dollars of an “undeclared, unnecessary war” in Iraq, and has supported a U.S. withdrawal from a war in Afghanistan that has taken the lives of over 1,900 American soldiers , 3,021 Afghan civilians in 2011 alone, and cost the U.S. hundreds of billions . Romney, on the other hand, has criticized the Obama administration’s plan to draw down the amount of American troops committed to this war in Afghanistan that is adding to the U.S. debt and destroying its reputation abroad.
The candidates’ differences on the drug war also highlight Paul’s commitment to limited government and fiscal responsibility. Paul opposes anti-drug policies that cost government over $40 billion annually and fill prisons with millions of drug offenders, to the point that over half of federal inmates are in prison due to drug crimes. Romney refuses to acknowledge the fiscal and social problems inherent in America’s drug war policies, and continues to support a war on drugs waged by law enforcement.
In a 2008 debate, Romney proclaimed that government’s role in policing political dissidents in the U.S. trumps civil liberties.
“I hear, from time to time, people say – ‘Hey, we have civil liberties we have to worry about,’—but don’t forget, the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is the right to be kept alive.”
Romney implies that individual liberties ought to be sacrificed for government protection from national security concerns. Paul, on the other hand, has made no such exception, and has steadfastly fought for the civil liberties that protect individuals, including unpopular political minorities, from the powers of government. Paul was one of three Republicans to vote against the PATRIOT Act and its expansion of government surveillance powers, such as Section 206 that allows police to use “roving wiretaps” for surveillance without specifying what person or place is to be searched. No doubt the laws were made in response to a crisis, but Paul never failed to warn that rights are “more easily trampled” in such crises when government makes promises that “initially seem to exceed the cost in lost freedom,” and he was one of very few who stood up for individual liberties threatened by America’s War on Terror.
It seems the difference in delegates between Paul and Romney represents an even bigger difference in governing philosophy, at least if their previous stances on foreign policy, morality, and national security issues are any indication.
If Romney wins the nomination, as it looks like he will, Republicans will have a candidate that supports more government, not less. The good news for Paul supporters, and for Americans that find promoting liberty and limited government to be a worthwhile pursuit, is that more people have recognized and supported Paul’s candidacy in 2012.
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25th April 2012 at 11:06 am
flash says:
Damn you Molyneux !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM
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25th April 2012 at 11:11 am
matt says:
The obvious problem with this country is the complete dumbing-down process that has been in full swing for the last 30 or so years. The NWO realized a long time ago the best way to beat a revolution is to keep one from starting, using the MSM ( I want my MTV!) as a mind-numbing tool to turn the sheeple into vegetables. It’s hard to feel very symapthetic to a Nation that on the brink of financial ruin ignores Ron Paul almost completely and elevates two total douche-bags to decide our fate.
Can someone photoshop Obummer and Romney’s faces onto Thelma and Louise as they drive the Caddy painted red, white and blue off the cliff?
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25th April 2012 at 11:25 am
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
The hardest thing to do in life is to leave people to experience the consequences of their own decisions.
I have said a million times, now. You canna help people who willfully, gleefully, perversely, ignore reality and pursue a course of sheer folly. You can’t.
All you can do is try to protect yourself from the entirely predictable results of their stupidity. And that is a full time job, I’m tellin’ you.
Embrace the Doom, that’s the only way.
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25th April 2012 at 11:40 am
Colma Rising says:
“Not endorsed”?!
Is that how you spell “End of a viable Republican Party”?
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25th April 2012 at 11:42 am
Thinker says:
“If I wanted America to fail”
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25th April 2012 at 11:45 am
flash says:
Great vid thinker..
HZK…Embrace the Doom, that’s the only way.
Works for me.Only a simpleton would fail to realize that the light at the other end of the tunnel is a train … might as well get some popcorn and enjoy the show.
“Mankind is facing a crossroad – one road leads to despair and utter hopelessness and the other to total extinction – I sincerely hope you graduates choose the right road”
― Woody Allen, Mere Anarchy
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25th April 2012 at 11:49 am
Wyoming Mike says:
Correction – We WON 2 delegates in 5, 1 in 17 & 1 in 18. Better than none.
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25th April 2012 at 12:20 pm
TeresaE says:
I used to think this way too, “…26% and 15% voter participation respectively. If the people of this country don’t give a fuck, then they deserve everything that will come crashing down on their heads in the next 15 years. ..”
Then I realized that people didn’t quit because they didn’t “care,” they quit (long ago) because it became obvious to the brighter amongst us that it truly didn’t matter.
All that matters now are select groups that are highlighted to matter. The non-union, the small biz, the family farmer, the landlords, the factory owners, the retailers, have seen our votes not matter for decades.
Screw THEM.
If the whole Ron Paul fiasco has shown us, our votes, feelings and Constitution don’t matter at all anymore.
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25th April 2012 at 12:44 pm
ragman says:
NO PAUL=NO VOTE
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25th April 2012 at 1:32 pm
AWD says:
People don’t vote because it doesn’t matter. They aren’t allowed to pick a candidate, the power brokers do that. Candidates and politicians don’t give a shit, they only want money for more negative commercials. He who has the most money wins the election. The candidates tell one story while campaigning, nothing but lies, and then are bought off and bribed by lobbyists, corporations, and banksters. The political process is such a joke, why would anyone want to participate? We don’t have a democracy, sorry. If you’re stupid enough to think so, then you’re stupid enough to vote, I suppose.
Calling idiot Americans sheep is an insult to sheep, who don’t know any better.
Some people still have some balls, however, as they vote with their bumper stickers…
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25th April 2012 at 1:55 pm
Ron says:
I think Romney well do ok,Ron Paul never stood a chance,his smart thinking stuff is beyond societys abilitys.Plus he didnt promise free stuff.
I think Obama could sell fire to Satan,he is crooked enough to win.
Mabe reality well trump Obummer in the end.
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25th April 2012 at 1:57 pm
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25th April 2012 at 2:15 pm
Kill Bill says:
The public relations industry . . . carefully cultivates activists who can be coopted into working against the goals of their movement. This strategy has been outlined in detail by Ronald Duchin, senior vice-president of PR spy firm Mongoven, Biscoe and Duchin [MBD]. . . In a 1991 speech to the National Cattlemen’s Association, he described how MBD works to divide and conquer activist movements. Activists, he explained, fall into four distinct categories: ‘radicals,’ ‘opportunists,’ ‘idealists,’ and ‘realists,.’ He outlined a three-step strategy: (1) isolate the radicals; (2) ‘cultivate’ the idealists and ‘educate’ them into becoming realists; then (3) coopt the realists into agreeing with industry.
So it goes.
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25th April 2012 at 3:13 pm
DaveL says:
Admin says: “I’m ashamed of my State and my Country.”
Nature abhors a vacuum. When Michelle Obama announced that for the first time in her life she was pround to be an American, that left a hole in space that needed to be filled.
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25th April 2012 at 3:53 pm
AWD says:
Dave Dumbfuck, king of the “thumbs down” on TBP, I have a message from Trayvon’s uncle, and here it is:
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25th April 2012 at 4:05 pm
avalon says:
So, I volunteered for several hours at a local polling place yesterday. I would hand out my list of Paul delegate candidates to the republican voters and ask for their vote. And then the republican party guy would hand his ballot to the same person and say “here is the official republican ballot with the endorsed candidates”. UGH! Obnoxious…..
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25th April 2012 at 5:50 pm
Zarathustra says:
Admin: “We are truly a country of sheeple being led to slaughter. The willful ignorance of the majority is revolting.”
The truth doesn’t always set you free. Sometimes it just makes you aware of who holds the key to your jail.
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25th April 2012 at 6:19 pm
sensetti says:
This country is like a strung out heroin addict, we will have to hit the wall before real change has a chance. I just pray the impact doesn’t take us out.
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25th April 2012 at 6:33 pm
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Dave Dumbfuck, king of the “thumbs down” on TBP, I have a message from Trayvon’s uncle, and here it is:”
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Study math much you fucking retard?
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25th April 2012 at 7:25 pm
Novista says:
Mistuh retard without a name, go fuck yourself.
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25th April 2012 at 10:20 pm
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25th April 2012 at 6:39 pm