Romney has two faces and two tongues, Gingrich IS the "Grinch That Stole Christmas" --'nuff said, Santorum is too religious, which isn't necessarily a problem, but that crap doesn't belong in government it belongs at home, then you got Paul. The rest don't stand a chance, and Grinch probably doesn't either, but Romney is in front --just barely.
Paul is the only one I trust. Like another fellow on here said, he's been saying the SAME THING for 30 years. This'll also be the last time he runs, he's getting too old, so if you've ever been interested in him now's the chance. 2A is just ONE of the liberties he champions.
I strongly disagree with some of the stuff he says, like doing away with Medicare and SS (which ain't happening, if he really pushed it he'd get impeached) but the rest of the stuff he DOES have power over as president, I mostly agree with. We REALLY need someone in there that won't blow the wad on bailing out banks and wars, then give us more restrictions and babysitters and mandatory crap we have to by from corporations (like insurances --not that having it is bad, but being forced to IS, and they always screw you if you NEED it). And 2A? It has been slipping for a long time, and regardless of the "Fast and Furious" scam ran by the government, they still plan on going foward with a more comprehensive ban --and Obama thinks that people should not be able to own any semi auto weapons. Period.
Paul, I think, would be for 2A even if he didn't say so just based on the other stuff he says. Everytime I hear him talk, I think "Yeah!" Well, most times. Paul basically isn't a sellout, that is VERY important to me --even if I don't agree with everything, I want the truth. No other candidate has ever been for civil liberties like this guy in my lifetime, and it is time to give him a chance. Why gamble on those other greedbags? Haven't we had enough Bush's, Clintons, Nixons and the like? I mean, really?
Romney, the guy that everyone seems to love, said on two different occasions in front of a camera in the past that "I STRONGLY support a woman's right to choose!" then he said, paraphrased, "I am against ANY legislation that would ban abortion". NOW he says he is STRONGLY against it... So which Romney are you going to vote for, or are you going to get the package deal? How's that work exactly? So with a record like that, it doesn't MATTER AT ALL what he says about 2A! If he is so two faced on abortion, which is another civil liberty, how can you trust that?
To be frankly honest, and I MEAN this, if it comes down to Romney and Obama, I'll vote for Obama. For all the crap people expected from Obama, it didn't happen. But it WILL likely happen if he gets re-elected. Still, an election has so much more to do with stuff besides the 2A you cannot divorce them, so for me it like rolling dice, and I'd just rather have Obama than Romney. Now these diehard republicans want all or nothing, willing to bet the farm on this one to get the most "Reagan like conservative" --and to be honest, Reagan was a horrible president, just everyone was hopped up on cocaine and the economy was gangbusters, but you seem to forget the GCA he signed in 1986... That's in the past and those days ain't coming back folks, you live in a new era and there ain't no more Eisenhowers. And, judging JUST BY THE NUMBERS of primary voters, I can say Obama will likely murder Romney. Also, just look at Perry --the guy ISN'T Bush, but he LOOKS like him, TALKS like him, and comes from the same state, same office. The taste Bush left in our mouths was reflected in his number of voters in NH --100 something? Think about it. Republicans want another Bush, another Reagan, but the rest of the country doesn't. On election day, if you put Romney up against Obama, you are going to be sorely disappointed.
But Paul, Paul is preaching the things that Americans are most upset about --the economy and bailouts, endless wars, huge defense budgets, AND civil liberties (which I should have put in front, but it only seems to be an issue with Paul and not the others). In ten years, we've gone from a screwed up democracy to tinkering on the edge of who knows what. That "Occupy Wall Street" wasn't or isn't much different than what happened in Egypt, Libya, and now Syria, and a little more momentum and... So choose wisely, and remember Obama IS a moderate and won the last election and the taste of the public at large is towards a moderate. Perhaps that is why Romney is doing well, he was charged with being a moderate, but he may as well been graciously bestowed rather than charged considering the charge came from Gingrich and he isn't (thank God) doing so well.
Also, at what point will you all be fed up? IF Obama gets elected and bans your weapons, are REALLY going to give them up? I'll put it another way: if you were the only man holding the Bill of Rights, the real deal, would you turn THAT over? Hell no. In effect, banning of weapons is no different that banning the 2A. Plain and simple. It says "right to keep and bear arms" not hunting rifles. As I understand arms, I SHOULD be able to keep and bear whatever I like. I should be able to go to the gun shop down the street and buy automatics, suppressors, even light artillery and not be given the governemnt run around. As it stands, I CAN buy that stuff with a government run around, but only if I belong to another CLASS. Middle class cannot afford $50,000 price tags on $1000 rifles --this, this is a sign of class warfare. It is also just the beginning of a full out ban. If they keep picking at the 2A like vultures and we let them take away our parity of force, well, bye bye Constitution and I'll emigrate to Canada. I have plenty of points to get there and will be welcome. I don't want to live in a US where only the Daniel Harless' have firearms.
I'd rather die than live in a country that hands over its liberties for "royal dispensations". That just turns my stomache. You know, soldiers and politicians take the same oathe, but the difference is that when I took it, I didn't have my fingers crossed. And you know, I've already been branded a government enemy: when Napolitano got the head of Homeland Security, she said on CNN that people who are (paraphrased) "military veterans from combat arms (I'm infantry) people who like firearms (I'm NRA) and people who believe in the Bill of Rights are enemies of the state". That WAS in context as you read it, but when questioned, she refused to recant, stood by that statement, and later said it had to do with "lone wolves". Whatever. When I heard that, my heart sunk, I felt like I'd been stabbed in the back --and I have. I still haven't gotten my written apology from her yet either.
If you republican primary voters can get over the fact that Romney looks like a young Reagan and tells you to your face whatever you want to hear. I hear at churches, he IS Jesus, but at the mosque, he is all for Mohammed and religous freedom, at the abortion clinic, he's all for it, and across the street at the protest, he's for them too! And at the gun shop? You figure it out.
Please, for the sake of us all, pick Paul. I can guarantee about 10 votes for Paul, maybe more a lot of my friends and wife's friends value my opinion because I'm home a lot and watch all the debates and read through the trash, but at least 8 will go to Obama if he is pitted against Romney or another (my best buddy, he fancies himself a republican, but he's a union factory worker --they'd axe his butt in a heartbeat if they could). WA state may surprise you, folks here are FED UP with this mess and here and in Oregon, folks are VERY protective of civil liberties. Think about it. For as "liberal" as Seattle is, I can still go walk anywhere I want with my pistol on my hip, showing or not --there is a picture of an Opencarry protestor arm in arm for a picture with the DA. Obama got picked because he was the anti-Bush, supposedly, and promised us better times. But he didn't come through, however, around here he's considered a much better choice than the "perfect conservative" that the repubs want to pit agains the incumbent.
See, in urban areas, that talk of abortion bans, gay bans, real and drug war escalations, that doesn't fly like it does in backwater Kansas. So, again, choose wisely, and think, is Paul all that bad? Really? Hell, he might even get rid of the NFA if he can! It sounds like his thing.
Well, I'm done, I'll step down now. Vote Ron Paul!
PS, I voted Obama last time, but had you guys picked Paul over McCain and that crazy hooker he picked for VP, you'd likely have a republican incumbent right now. Nearly my whole family and almost all my friends voted Obama, but they would have voted Paul.
