Can Rand
Paul Deliver the Paul Voters?
By JB
Williams
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As father Ron Paul prepares to retire, leaving behind a
political career that spans nearly forty-years and passing the libertarian torch
to son Senator Rand Paul, can Rand fill Dad’s shoes? As Rand attempts to deliver
the libertarian vote for Romney-Ryan in 2012, will his father’s biggest fans
follow Rand’s lead?
Ron Paul prepared a video statement that will open the
GOP show on the evening that Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan will accept his
nomination. Paul’s son, Rand Paul, will follow with a live speech in Tampa,
following on his endorsement of Mitt
Romney for President, only hours
after his father’s biggest fans walked
out of the convention in
protest.
Ron Paul was one of several declared candidates hoping to
force a brokered convention in Tampa. But when Romney officially secured 90.16% of the GOP delegates (2,061 of 2,286)
ending all speculation about a floor fight for the GOP nod, Paul supporters
reached the peak of their frustration. New GOP delegate rules provided a final
blow to those who had hoped to wrangle delegates away from Romney on the
convention floor.
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| RON PAUL |
In the end, Ron Paul received 8.27% of the
GOP delegates, 189. Although his supporters believe Ron could have blocked the
Romney nomination without the new GOP rules change, the truth is Ron Paul has
been stuck at or below 10% support within the GOP for decades. Nobody can win
anything with only 10% support.
Ron Paul has one of the most loyal
followings in modern politics. He has had an impact by forcing subjects onto the
table and GOP platform that would not be there without him. However, his
all-or-nothing supporters have demonstrated a firm “our way or no way” election
attitude for many years now, bordering on venomous in their assaults on all
other political figures. This is a very dangerous play for both their agenda and
the nation.
At a time when the nation is unifying to
remove the most dangerous administration in U.S. history from power, can Rand
Paul convince his father’s angry followers to become a grown-up productive part
of solutions for America? Or, will he lose them to ideological bickering,
backstabbing and protest votes in November?
The stakes are high for Romney-Ryan and Rand
Paul. The stakes have never been higher for America. Ron Paul supporters have
some options and they have been talking about those options for months
now.
·
Write in Ron
Paul’s name in protest
·
Vote
3rd Party in protest
·
Stay home on
election day in protest
·
Vote for Obama in
protest
Of course, all of these protest options will end with the
same result, the re-election of the worst administration in U.S. history. It’s
not possible to say you oppose these Marxists while at the same time, doing
things to keep the Marxists in power. Someone is
lying…
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| RAND PAUL |
Rand Paul will try to get his father’s supporters to
leave all of these protest options behind, and bring them into the mainstream
where their ideas and votes can have some impact. Does he have the political
clout to pull it off?
Ron and Rand both realized that they could not affect
anything from the outside looking in with a critical eye. They both realized
that they had to be in the game to affect the game. Many Rand Paul supporters
realized the same thing when they chose to make Rand a Senator. Nobody would
even know Ron Paul’s name had he not left behind 3rd Party fantasies
and joined the Republican Party in order to become a member of
congress.
Still, many Ron Paul supporters continue to demonstrate
an “our way or no way” attitude that could leave them sitting on the sidelines
complaining about Barack Obama and his Marxist march to
Globalization.
The deal is now sealed. Only one candidate will have a
chance to remove Barack Obama from office and that candidate is Mitt Romney. How
we feel about that doesn’t matter. What we do about it will decide the future of
freedom and liberty in America.
So long as the Obama Crime Syndicate controls D.C.,
freedom and liberty are dead in America and all over the globe. The future of
freedom and liberty depends first and foremost, upon removing the current
Marxist regime from power.
Rand Paul will try to convince his father’s followers to
support Romney and Ryan in their historic effort to remove anti-American
Marxists from the people’s Executive branch. Paul supporters have a chance to
play a significant role in that effort. Or, they can take their football and go
home in anger, leaving freedom and liberty in the hands of the most corrupt and
tyrannical regime to ever hold power in the United
States.
Paul supporters can become a force to be reckoned with
inside politics, or they can sit on the sidelines and cast stones at everyone
else. Millions will listen as Rand Paul tries to bring libertarians into the
fold and millions will watch how Paul supporters respond to his call for
unity.
But at the end of the day, those who believe in freedom
and liberty could never leave our future in the hands of known anti-American
despots.
There is no doubt in my mind that both Ron and Rand Paul
will vote for Romney-Ryan on November 6th.
But the jury is still out on what Paul supporters will
do. Ron Paul is riding off into the sunset and Rand is trying to become a person
of influence in D.C. But can Rand even influence his father’s followers? If Rand
can’t influence his own libertarians, who can he influence?
JB Williams
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