For Ron Paul. [More]
Questions:
Will he run as an independent when the RINOs sideline him and grunt out their typical ordure?
Will "pragmatic" gun leaders then heap scorn on those who will not choose between "the lesser of two evils"?
If so, will they explain what incentive the GOP has to ever offer us anything but wormtongued phonies?
5 comments:
Ron Paul is one of the few hopes America has left.
Florida is not an friendly state for gun owners. One serious defect is that open carry is highly restricted. Republicans hold super majorities yet they wouldn't even give CWF licensees the ability to open carry. Being a Republican means less than nothing.
Why is the Florida Legislature unable to pass legislation decriminalizing open carry of weapons? Because they really fear that the citizens will openly carry weapons, which many "feel" is threatening. They prefer to act like cartoon ostriches, where what they cannot directly observe cannot harm them, and hence they "feel" safer.
Governor Rick Scott, for all his pre-election NRA "A" rating hoopla, has publicly done nothing aside from paying for NRA membership to justify that rating. He has taken no leadership with a recent bill to enable open carry, which was modified with the support of the NRA to specifically decriminalize "printing" or accidental exposure of concealed weapons. A brandish statute has been misused by police, prosecutors and judges to punish those who even accidentally let others see concealed, holstered weapons. The rationale was that if you can see it at all, then the weapon is not concealed, you have put others in a state of "fear", and you must be punished for it.
I fear crossing the street, even at crosswalks, or riding a bicycle in traffic more due to the high injury and mortality rate inflicted by Florida drivers.
Dr. Paul is right about pretty much every topic he chooses to address. If he were to make it onto the ballot, I'd vote for him in a second. Several problems, though:
1) He lacks charisma, which, sadly, one needs to get elected. Equally unfortunately, people with a spine seem to not get elected.
2) The pro-interventionist right and the big-government neocons all hate him, and they're a substantial portion of the Republican Party.
3) A 3rd party has zero chance to get in the Oval Office. They'd need to have legislature wins first to gain any following.
4) The hardcore socialist liberals won't vote for him either, leaving a small portion of fiscally conservative Democrats who might consider it.
5) The only way to get elected is to kiss union or corporate @$$, and Dr. Paul won't do either.
My 2 yen. ::G
Most "gunnies" are hopeless. Ron Paul is the best friend of the Second Amendment on Capitol Hill, bar none, yet one mention of anything Ron Paul/libertarian over at gunboards.com and the "forum royalty" there respond with more bile and venom than they reserve for the Democrats. I'm not exaggerating. I'd enjoy watching those know-nothing Stepford Republicans get the government they deserve, if I wasn't getting it too.
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