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eok321
01-21-2010, 05:42 PM
Lots of Ron Paul related comments-add some more and maybe he'll give us Paulians a shout out..

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/21/what-will-it-take-to-get-a-viable-third-party-going-in-u-s/#comment-1191164



The independent voter is one of the main reasons Democrats lost Ted Kennedy's long-held Senate seat in Massachusetts this week.

A survey conducted by one GOP pollster found Republican Scott Brown won 64 percent of independents... compared to 34 percent for the Democrat Martha Coakley.

One short year ago - it was these same independents who overwhelmingly backed Barack Obama and launched him into the presidency.

But with the Democrats now in control of Congress and the White House for the past year, independents are sick and tired of feeling ignored by their so-called representatives.

These critical independent voters are mostly white, middle-class and middle-aged suburbanites, and they're sick of high unemployment, bank and auto bailouts, government spending and taxes, among other things.

Flash
01-21-2010, 05:44 PM
Jack Cafferty, who gives a shit about a third party. We have a third party called the Libertarian Party that just nominates people like Bob Barr. The excuse is, "we have to compromise a little to get more votes so we can get on the ballot again next year."

If anything I would rather have a principled independent candidate like Joe Kennedy. Since a party's only goal is to expand. Besides if a Ron Paul Party, Tea Party, or Libertarian Party ever became viable then you would get Romney-type Republicans jumping on the bandwagon. Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, etc.. have all referred to themselves as 'Libertarian' at times. They'll hijack the word just like the statists have hijacked liberal & conservative.