At gopetition.com there is a petition asking Mitt Romney to withdraw from the 2012 election, because he clearly cannot defeat President Obama. The only effect of Mitt Romney remaining a candidate is to split the anti-Obama vote, and deny Gary Johnson a victory:
“Due to the recent events involving Mitt Romney’s remarks about Obama supporters and the Republican parties unfair treatment of Ron Paul supporters, we have no confidence in Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the 2012 Presidential election.”
“We feel that these events reflect poorly on Mitt Romney,and any further involvement would only hurt Gary Johnson’s chances of victory.”
Sign the petition @ http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/request-that-mitt-romney-withdraw-from-the-2012-preside.html
Hello Henry –
Joe Arpaio is no friend of liberty. To support him should be anathema to any libertarian.
“Libertarians and social conservatives cannot coexist under the same big tent. But libertarians have become too important and too large a group in the American ideological spectrum to submit to the ignorance of the bible-thumping, scientifically-illiterate, communistic conservatives who wish to impose their self deluded but proudly proclaimed ignorance of reality as a legal straightjacket on individuals who wish to choose their own way and live free.”
That’s an excellent paragraph, Zapper. You summed up the Republican Party in an excellent way.
Mitt Romney will obey the same masters Obama does and the same Dubya did before him. The evil cycle will continue. Some folks, like Henry, just cannot accept this truth.
Sorry, Henry, but Romney can’t win. For him the chance of victory is nearly zero. It is actually true that Gary Johnson has a better chance of winning in November than Mitt Romney. Romney is unelectable.
I will just reprint what I just wrote to Wayne Root on another thread, here for you:
“Nonsense Wayne …
The LP is actually growing again. Gary Johnson is inspiring members and donors and raising hopes. Ron Paul is, unfortunately, aging now and no longer able to lead. Eventually it had to happen. This is resulting in a search for new leadership by the liberty movement he helped to create. There being no single great savior to step forward, a diverse effort of individual actors and multiple not-so-famous leaders is emerging. Having multiple leaders and more responible individual actors is preferable in any case.
Meanwhile, Romney is proving what has been obvious to the more astute political observer for some time: The Republican party no longer represents a coalition capable of putting together a national plurality – a political realignment is underway.
Libertarians and social conservatives cannot coexist under the same big tent. But libertarians have become too important and too large a group in the American ideological spectrum to submit to the ignorance of the bible-thumping, scientifically-illiterate, communistic conservatives who wish to impose their self deluded but proudly proclaimed ignorance of reality as a legal straightjacket on individuals who wish to choose their own way and live free.
The first and most important objective of communism was always social control, not economic: creation of the “good soviet man,” imposition of draconian regulation of drug use, enforced government policy against gays, childbearing (either banning or requiring abortion), teaching scientific and historical lies in school, militarized society, imperialistic military ambitions, imposition of state views on religion (banning and enforcing religious practice are both communistic approaches). The Republican Party has become America’s party for a policy of social communism imposed against our will. Libertarians must necessarily leave. The neocons and backward social communists can fight over the bones as this ancient ship slips beneath the waves.
So, Wayne, you see, you have jumped aboard a sinking ship – seemingly the opposite of usual behavior for a rat. You should have four more years of productive Obama bashing ahead of you and that should be fun and profitable, after you get over the crushing defeat that Romney will record come November. You should try to avoid the embarrassment that will come to you should you attempt a run for Senate, as rumored – you will be crushed in the process and lose your cachet as a commentator.
The Libertarian Party has long been early on the scene – ahead of its time. Various players have resorted to infighting out of frustration, wrongly blaming the platform, strong principles or dangerous phrases such as the “cult of the omnipotent state” for the fact that social and political change is just slow to be accepted and realignment must wait for the collapse of a major party in a system like ours.
But now, the time has come. Gary Johnson and a revitalized membership have the opportunity to become one of the two in our two party system. We have the opportunity to lead the realignment – to look forward and put together a new winning national coalition. The majority of Americans supports social tolerance and fiscally responsible government. This is our chance to form a new winning coalition using the strengths of our Electoral College system and plurality elections we can build an electoral majority and turn the country in a new direction – for the first time in history – toward liberty.
But, not to worry Wayne. The Libertarian Party will be good for you. You will be able to prosper and thrive financially in a libertarian society. You will be free. We will set you free. And you will discover that you didn’t need the communistic theocratic socialists of the moribund Republican machine to thwart the ambitions of others to live free in order for you to live free.
Good luck, Wayne.”
To all RP, GJ, MR supporters,
I’m an Independent who would accept Ron Paul, M-Romney any day as President over the O’bamination !
We all need your help Now,
On behalf of all those who want to save this country,
Accept from all of us today an apology for the way that Ron Paul and his supporters have always been mistreated-abused, taken for granted, from 1976-2012 and during the 2000-2012 RNC Conventions.
There’s no time to lose, most Cons aren’t RINO-Neo-Cons. The majority of us have no problem with RP being given the # of delegates he actually won.
I’m not sure why, if Romney had the majority of delegates, some RNC leaders wanted-bothered-tried-to block out any of Ron Paul’s delegates at the 2012 RNC.
The TP-Cons-Rep-states-delegates
-voting-base-masses weren’t behind or a willing part of it !
Lets all get together, get over the inevitable flare-ups-confrontations-conflicts-arguments-struggles-fights,
with the RINO-Neo-Con-controlled-Rep-leadership, who all serve their $-Lobbyist-$-political-business-agenda !
As a result of Ron Paul finally getting proper political-news-coverage-citizen-masses-recognition, mlns-of-new-suprtrs-Lrg-Amts-$$ !
As on the 2012 RNC-Conv-floor, RINO-Neo-Con-serving-RNC-leaders vs Patriotic-US-grass-roots Ron Paul delegates-supporters, over rules-changes-counting-delegates !
I’m asking you today, to accept this apology on behalf of all TP-Cons-Rep-US-citizen-base-voting masses.
Some who;
–would want Ron Paul as President or to be in a high US-Govt-Cabinet-Agency position.
–admire him, skeptical-doubting, haven’t figured out why RP’s a US-Patriot-Govt-politician !
–were unfair, having-expressing-criticism-doubt-skepticism about RP.
–are the worst RP detractors, RINO-Neo-Con-serving-RNC-leadership-politicians-citizens-voters, heaped-disdain-ridicule-libel-slander-bias-tactics-attacks-against-upon-worthy-RP !
Now’s the time for all Ron Paul, Gary Johnson supporters, Independent and women US-citizens-voters, to accept this apology on behalf of the decent-fair-worthy TP-Cons-Rep, US-citizens-voting masses !
Lets all join together for the common cause of electing M-Romney, so that;
J-DeMint, S-King, R-Paul, J-Sessions, M-Lee, L-Barletta, K-Kobach, J-Arpaio, S-Walker, D-Nunez, T-Cruz, J-Brewer, S-Martinez,
and others like them, will have alot more US Govt influence.
Just like most TP-Cons-Rep-Ind-RP-sprtrs Romney, Ryan hear the TP’s msg-call !
O’bama is the sworn political enemy of all TP-Cons-Rep-pols-US-citizens,
M-R must get along with all of them, BHO absolutely won’t !
The #1 priority is getting O’bama out,
Independent and women voters reject the Traitorous-Treasonous O’bamination !
Vote for pro-US-American mod-Cons Romney – Ryan !
This is our last chance to stop,
O’bama’s-libs-Dems-Reid-Schumer-Durbin-Harkin-Leahy,
Pelosi-Boxer-Murray-Jarrett-DWS-Axelrod-B-H-Clinton-Holder-Napolitano-Sabelius,
ACLU-ACORN-MoveOn-SEIU, NAACP-NBPP, LaRaza-Lulac-MEChA-Aztlan, Mexican-Illegal-Alien-Invasion of US-America !
Henry–I could never, under any circumstance, vote for a Republican after the cheating and utter dishonesty of the party during this campaign season. I also can’t vote for Mitt Romney because he hasn’t promised to end our murderous wars.
“A vote for any other candidate In a Close-Swing-State other than Romney is a vote for Obama !” Please stop with that illogical statement, also. A vote for someone besides Romney is a vote for someone besides Romney.
Do you want Gary Johnson to be your president? http://celebrity-plugs.com/t/
There’s also this:
http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/sign-the-petition-to-include-libertarian-for-president-gov-gary-johnson-in-debates
Hmmm……
Love it!
I don’t buy much into these polls but the petition is amazing.
Recent polls:
Obama leads Romney by seven points in both Ohio (49 to 42 percent) and Virginia (50 to 43 percent). In Florida, Obama leads by five points (49 to 44 percent). Obama won all three states in 2008, marking the first time Virginia voted for a Democratic president since 1964.
In Michigan and Wisconsin, Obama has also opened up a lead against his rival: A CNN poll puts him up eight points in Michigan (52 to 44 percent), and one from Marquette Law School has Obama leading Romney by 14 points in Wisconsin (54 to 40 percent). In August, Obama led Romney in Wisconsin by only three points.
Romney is toast, he should withdraw.
What a brilliant idea!