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Ron Paul Supporter – “Please pollute the GOP Primary”

I have been alarmed in the past when people have told me, back in 2008, that they liked either Obama or Ron Paul.  I couldn’t figure out how they made that leap.  A few years on and I’m not all that surprised anymore.  They both evoke a cult like following that scares the crap out of me.  (Reagan fanatics scare me a bit too.) Screw policy differences, and to hell with being right on even 80% of the issues–it is a cult of personality and I do not care what party you claim to be in, that is dangerous.

Here’s a recent example from facebook.  A proud Ron Paul Supporter, whom I shall not name, is begging Democrats to register as Republicans (today is the last day) so they can vote for Ron Paul.

What the?!

NH Democrats – today is the last day to register as either a Republican (it hurt when I did it, too, four years ago) or as an Independent to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries, which may be held as soon as December here in NH – want the wars to end? Last chance… Ron Paul will not be running again.

The single thing this person wants more than anything else is to bring the troops home.  There is nothing wrong with wanting that, and I’m not here to debate that point, but when you start begging Democrats to register Republican to get there, I have a huge problem.  And I know this person is not alone in saying this.  There is a fundamental flaw in the thinking of people who from one side of their mouths claim to be committed to constitutional limits, but from the other ignore any other barriers to what they seek.  (And so what if military action is actually a constitutional power, right!?)

You won’t be needing your vote for Obama in any primary … might as well toss your vote to secure an election that has two candidates you could be comfortable with winning the election.

Our GOP Primary is for New Hampshire Republicans to choose their GOP presidential candidate based on all the issues that concern them.  By inviting others to water down that process, a problem we already have and that is more than likely going to give New Hampshire to a RINO like Romney, you deny the people who are interested in changing the direction of a political party they are committed to, and give it to whomever you can find to vote for your guy.

And Ron Paul MEANS IT when he says he will bring the troops home, and the troops have donated more money to Ron Paul than they have Obama… they’ve opened their eyes, this is your opportunity to support the troops in a most compassionate and humane way – by bringing them home. And stopping the drone attacks that Obama keeps authorizing – please, take a few minutes today to go to your town or city hall to register as an I or an R to stop all this killing!

What’s next?  Are Ron Paul supporters going to suggest we let illegal immigrants vote in the GOP primary (if they promise to vote for Ron Paul)?

Is any possible path to the nomination acceptable?  It kind of looks that way.  Which suggests a fundamental character flaw hiding behind this obsessive "we are all about the constitution" front they’ve been foisting on us all these years.

The RP supporters, I suspect, will now break out in force and suggest that this is just one person and it is not the voice of everyone who supports Dr. Paul.  But I’ve been watching for a long time and I’ll repeat what I have said over and over.  My biggest problem with Ron Paul has never really been the candidate himself, it is his supporters.  (I do have game ending issues with the candidate if that matters.) But every time I think I’ve seen it all, someone finds a way to scare me off just that much more.

You guys are killing your candidate’s chances with actual Republicans.  You know, the people who are Republicans through the good and the bad and whose primary this is supposed to be?  Yeah them.

 

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