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Many libertarians might be inclined to cast their ballots for Johnson in order to send a message to the GOP. But anyone who is inclined to believe that Johnson could actually win the general election should disillusion himself immediately. The electoral game is too rigged in favor of the two major parties for a third party to break through and in any case the Libertarian Party’s nomination process occurs too late in the year for Johnson to have time to assemble the kind of grassroots coalition he would need to accomplish such a feat. Casting a vote for Johnson will only have...
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At NRO, former Congressman Artur Davis (D-Ala.) suggests that Republicans should draft former Governor Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) for president. Excerpt: The fact is that Jeb Bush bent Florida, a famously interest-group-ridden state, in a rightward direction; that’s an accomplishment Romney can’t begin to claim vis-à-vis Massachusetts. Bush is not just an authentic movement conservative, but a groundbreaker on an array of issues that drive votes, such as accountability for teachers and reining in the costs of private health insurance. While his record has blemishes that Democrats would exploit, from his stint in the Eighties lobbying for southern-Florida business interests to his...
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I was sent a link to the above video by someone on Twitter, who asked me to take it viral. I hope that it will go viral because it provides a definitive answer to the question: “Who could have known beforehand that things would turn out this way?” Ron Paul knew and he warned his fellow members of Congress in 2002. He predicted virtually every crisis and problem we have faced over the past decade. He knew and everybody in Washington should have known too, because he warned them. So the question isn’t: Who could have known? The question is:...
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We’ll give Grover Norquist points for honesty. At least he knows that Republicans can’t hope to win in November without Ron Paul and his supporters. But in his commentary on the New Hampshire GOP primary results for The Guardian (h/t Andrew Sullivan), Norquist seems to be operating under the delusion that Congressman Paul’s endorsement could save Romney’s presidential candidacy in the general election: However, Ron Paul is the only candidate for the Republican nomination whose endorsement will matter to Mitt Romney. It is the only endorsement that will bring votes and the only endorsement, if withheld, that could cost Romney the general election. If...
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On Wednesday, I wrote a post at United Liberty arguing that libertarians and Tea Party conservatives should embrace former Governor Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) as the best viable candidate to take on Barack Obama. Yesterday I penned another post pointing out that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) are much more connected to the Washington, D.C. establishment than Gov. Romney. Whether Tea Party conservatives like it or not, their own convictions demand that they back Gov. Romney over Speaker Gingrich or Sen. Santorum. Tea Party conservatives liked former Governor Rick Perry (R-Tex.) because he had governed a state...
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An excerpt from yet another post at United Liberty: It’s pop quiz time. Which of the following sounds least like the description of a Washington, D.C. establishment candidate? a) A former one-term state governor never elected to federal office who spent decades prior to running for public office as a businessman in the private sector; b) A former Speaker of the House who spent just eight years working as a college professor before serving for twenty years in the House of Representatives, who as Speaker was reprimanded and fined for an ethics violation, and who after resigning from Congress spent nine...
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