Posted on 01/13/2012 4:28:27 PM PST by passionfruit
In the 2010 election the New Hampshire Republican Party took 298 out of 400 House seats, 19 out of 24 state Senate seats, and all five seats on the Executive Council. A little over a year later, in the state's presidential primary, the same (more or less) electorate gave over 56 percent of its votes to a couple of moneyed "moderates," one of whom served in the Obama administration and the other of whom left no trace in office other than the pilot program for Obamacare. Another 23 percent voted for Ron Paul. Supporters of the three other "major" candidates in the race argue that, if only the other two fellows would clear off, a viable conservative alternative to Mitt Romney would emerge. In fact, even if you combine Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum's share of the vote, it adds up to a mere 19.5 percent: Were Bain Capital to come in and restructure the "conservative" candidates into one streamlined and efficient Newt Perrtorum, this unstoppable force would be competitive with Jon Huntsman.
According to George Mason University's annual survey of Freedom in the 50 States, New Hampshire is the freest state in the union, so one would expect there to be takers for Ron Paul's message. On the other hand, facing a very different electorate in Iowa, Paul pulled pretty much an identical share of the poll. It may be time for those of us on the right to consider whether it's not so much the conservative vote that's split but whether conservativism itself is fracturing.
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"It's America's fault" is a great message?
“Fortress America”
?? That’s not the message I hear from Paul. I hear “Disarmed America.” Sort of a post-WWII Truman quasi-disarmament approach that left us without the hardware to fight the Korean war.
Disarmed America and Fortress America are two very different messages. Disarmed American is stupid and very naive. Fortress America is probably just naive. Fortress America wont work—it will break down as soon as America is attacked. But at least Paul would be trying to defend us.
Brilliant writing. Not altogether clear where he's headed -- but he gets there and it's worth the read.
Paulbot Zot!
Paulbot alert, execute General Order 66 and Zot with extreme prejudice!
Since you raise the issue, the U.S. should never have entered WWI. The legacies of the war were the rise of Hitler, and never-repealed war socialism here in the U.S.
Not Fortress America
Not Disarm America
Rather take care of business at home and be open to all trade but no alliances. Defense is rapid and deadly...aimed at heads of state, heads of power who try to attack.
For more info I recommend:
http://www.bluestockingpress.com/
http://www.chaostan.com/
If we are unwilling, or politically unable, to do that now then we shouldn't get into any wars in the future.
If we had gone into Iraq with the 300,000 troops we needed, kept the Iraqi army in tact, and established a military dictatorship until the Iraqis had learned to live with each other, then the sacrifice would have made sense.
But political correctness will forever prevent us from being able to establish military dictatorships for the time necessary to humble our foes.
If we can't win wars, then we should shift to a tactic that seems to be working OK for the Israelis: tit for tat. Any time some group or country hits us, we hit them harder. No more wars, just limited engagements.
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Thanks for the ping passionfruit.
I voted for Ron Paul years ago for president, and I am glad I did, it was a protest vote against the powers that be. But I would never vote for that guy again. He has lot me with that line of thinking and spouting.
Off the topic of discussion - why does little New Hampsire have 400 house seats? That is more than any other state by a big margin.
juss askin’.
Bingo. If we aren’t willing to completely crush a country and run things for a generation or so to get the population retrained the way Mark Clark did in Germany and MacArthur did in Japan, then it’s punitive actions only and get the heck out. The limited wars over the last 60 years have not been good for our country, and especially these two in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meals on wheels for Islamic savages is not a smart move.
Did you read the whole article before hacking off? Too many lazy Freepers. (And I’m sure the first thing you did after reading this was to check how long I’ve been here, as if that many jack sh!t.)
Put me on the Steyn ping list. He ranks up there with VDH.
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