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mamabearCali wrote:in the General Election I will vote Anyone But Obama.

I miss my first car. It was a 1977 Volvo 240 that my parents bought before I was born. I had it "on loan" from between when I turned 16, and when I went off to college at 18. Then my sister drove it around for two or three more years until it wouldn't go into reverse anymore. My Dad said that it was still a great car and you just had to "park strategically", but Mom and their mechanic said its time had come. That car ran for 23 years before it finally needed a repair that just cost too much compared to what the car was worth. I suppose it's rusting away in a junkyard somewhere now... and it would still be a better president than Obama.

(Wow, that's a long-winded, round-about way to say , even for me. Do I get a gold star or something? )

ArmyStrong1969 wrote:I am in the 20% of Americans that see no evidence for any gods. I am an atheist. We are the largest and most hated minority group in America. A child raping Muslim Jihadist would get elected in this country before an atheist.

According to my own studies, 100%* of Christian Americans are both willing to elect an Atheist and would rather elect an Atheist than a child raping Muslim Jihadist.

*sample size of 2

(Oh, and since your post count suggests you're new here... Welcome to the board!)

RoyGBiv wrote:

texanron wrote:LINK
Ron Paul just doesn't get it.

If there was an award for being honest and consistent, RP would certainly be in the running.
These comments, IMO, completely sunk what little chance he has of getting nominated.
I know many believe he's running mainly to pad his war chest anyways.

War chest for what? I thought he was retiring from congress after this term anyway.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:Libertarians can best be described as anarchists with a few conservative ideas.

Huh... And all this time I thought I could've been best described as a conservative who believes the 10th amendment is just as important as the rest. I think their "small government" rallying cry has attracted too diverse of a membership to be able to blanket the whole party with one statement of motivation.

For the record, I think some of Ron Paul's (and the Libertarians') positions are lunacy, and I still haven't decided who I'll be voting for in the primaries. The governmental "building" has grown so big and unruly that I worry about how much longer the foundation of our nation can take the weight. Of the major political parties, Libertarians would get us back to a small federal government the quickest, so in principle that's who I'm in favor of. You are correct in that their platform in its entirety would be unhealthy for us, but as long as we're talking about the feds I'm not sure it would be worse than where we seem to be heading. The Republican party platform (the 2008 version, anyway) is fifty-five pages of missing the point... they're proposing more of this and expanding that when the answer is less of everything. Again, I agree that the Libertarians would take it too far, but at least they want to move in the right direction, and it's pretty hard to stop in the correct place if we aren't going towards it to begin with.