Honestly, I’m not 100% confident or thrilled about any of the GOP candidates. But I strongly dislike the Dem candidates. Where does that leave a voter like me? If Paul doesn’t win the nomination, am I going to cry in my beer and not vote for Mitt, Rudy, or Huck?? Life is full of compromises. Politics is no exception.

To answer some of your questions. . .
Which doesn’t overspend?
They both suck. But will Dems spend less? No chance.

Which doesn’t overtax?
Surely you can’t possibly think Dems will tax less.

Which doesn’t engages in unconstitutional acts?
I’m not an expert on the Constitution, so I’ll take a pass on this. I’m sure they both suck though.

Which isn’t serious about controlling the border?
Both parties are pandering to the hispanic vote and are too afraid to do anything about this. I still say the Dems will do less on the border. A Republican with some mojo might get a fence built. Dems will give out universal healthcare and college scholarships to them.

Which isn’t serious about closing/fixing harmful government agencies?
Dems will expand the size of gov and make it more bloated than it already is.

Which isn’t too cowardly to address the Federal Reserve?
I would love to see Romney or perhaps Rudy get a crack at this. Both would be far better on economics than the Dems.

Which isn’t willing to admit the war on drugs is a social engineering farce?
Wasn’t this a Nancy Reagan issue from the 80′s? Not even close to being one of my radar of issues I care about.

And so much more. Mass conspiracy? You bet your @ss.
Do we really need more conspiracy talk on the web?

Look, I do like your guy Paul. I watched the clip of him on Cramer (whom I watch frequently). I GET IT. The Fed sucks, big government sucks, politicians are a bunch of lying thugs, etc. It’s not that your arguments for your guy are wrong. It’s just the logic of thinking HIllary is the same as Rudy, or Obama is the same as Romney, etc. is fundamentally flawed. They are not even close. We don’t have a rock star, slam dunk candidate that satisfies everyone. That’s why the race has been so fluid. But there would be an enormous difference between a Hillary/obama/Edwards administration vs. a Rudy/Mitt/Huck administration.

Go ahead and vote your conscience in the primary. If Paul wins, he’s got my vote. I just highly doubt that will happen and I am prepared to vote for my dog before I’d allow Hillary to take the white house.

And by the way, that was not an ‘endorsement’ by Cramer. I watch the guy regularly and he’s also had Romney and Rudy on his show. He maintains his show is politics neutral (but he does refer to the Dems as the ‘Bolsheviks). He hates the Fed and that’s where Cramer and Paul agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq7Li1MOF2Y

What’s the difference, based on record, between neo-con liberal Pubs and liberal Democrats?

Which doesn’t overspend?

Which doesn’t overtax?

Which doesn’t engages in unconstitutional acts?

Which isn’t serious about controlling the border?

Which isn’t serious about closing/fixing harmful government agencies?

Which isn’t too cowardly to address the Federal Reserve?

Which isn’t willing to admit the war on drugs is a social engineering farce?

And so much more. Mass conspiracy? You bet your @ss.

I am sure all of us are well-intentioned, but there is another entirely different race going on right now. Don’t assume I buy into the mentality spewed by Rush, Hannity, and so on. Sure they did a great job exposing the Democrats, but both liberal and neo-con shows did a great job exposing the neo-cons.

This is a retro-conservative (the founding principles) against liberalism (both Democrat and neo-con). So yeah, I try to steer the conversations into something more significant than what the MSM tells us to discuss. I’m talking real change vs bull change: no income tax vs temp income tax cut.

BTW: several of us push their favorite candidates.

And you are right. If Paul doesn’t become the Pub Primary winner, a liberal Democrat takes the Presidency…but that is the same as if a liberal neo-con takes the Presidency.

And don’t say ‘then you aren’t really a Republican’ because only until recently did the Republican party go liberal. It used to be conservative, it used work to pull US troops out of intervening wars, it used to fight to keep the US abiding by the founding principles.

Take a look at Romney, Huck, and Giuliani’s RECORD…all very liberal just last decade. Sure they talk the conservative talk on stage, passed a couple conservative pieces of legislature recently, but their RECORD shows they are liberals in Republican clothing.

So help us purge these imposters from our great party.

And since Hillary is the biggest evil . . . amen to RobA!!!

See, here is the biggest problem I see in elections. People are stuck in the herd mentality vote instead of voting for who they feel is the best candidate. The media perpetuates that group-think and you end up with a candidate that is the lesser of two evils.

I simply don’t think Paul has a chance to win in the conventional system. Does that mean he stiffs the GOP and runs as 3rd party? He won’t win that way either. But you know who will? The Dem nominee.

Republicans are too fractured right now. None of these candidates are the ‘dream’ candidate. There is no throwback to Reagan, no matter how many time they use the man’s name.

I hear about Romney’s flip flopping, Huck’s tax raising, and Rudy’s liberal social issues. As much as you dislike those particular positions from those candidates – would you rather see a Dem get in there? Huck raised taxes in Arkansas, so he can’t possibly mean what he says on the FairTax? That’s ridiculous. Who is more likely to lower taxes or hopefully revamp the tax system – Huck or Hillary? Who’s more likely to defend our country – Rudy or Hillary? Who’s more likely to promote a stronger economy – Mitt or Hillary?

I am sick of all the bickering. I can’t wait for Feb 5. Rudy, Mitt, Huck – and yes, even Paul – - would all have my vote over the Dem nominee.

Jason: Did you have to wake the beast? He/She was actually coming around on Huckabee (not that Huck was anywhere near touching Paul status)

BJD: Huck’s talked about ending the IRS since the beginning, a vote for Huck is a vote for the Fair Tax, and Ron Paul’s a good guy.

Toby: Only one Jesus, and it ain’t Reagan.

Henry Rollins is much more appropriate for Huckabee…”CUZ, I’M A LIAR!”

“Are you implying Huck’s surge is all due to his desire to want to end the income tax?”

Not ‘all’ of it. But he didn’t start saying ‘no IRS’ in debates until recently (Paul said it from the beginning)…and recently Huckabee started climbing.

Too bad, the people don’t check voting records. If they did, they’d know Huckabee is a big-time tax-raiser…he’s been known as taxhikeMike for a long time.

I like the Fairtax better than the income tax, but I wouldn’t want Huckabee over the income tax, the Fairtax, or any tax. I don’t give a damn about what he says in debates or how well he says it; he’s proven himself (via his record and character) to be untrustworthy.

Ditto for Romney, Giuliani, Thompson, etc. They overspend and overtax, then say they are against overspending and overtaxing. When are enough people going to wake up?

Now Edward Rollins will lead the GOP to a landslide election loss.

Is Huck the new George McGovern of the GOP?

The two ‘surprise’ candidates (Paul and Huckabee) are those that say they want to end the income tax.

While others criticize him, Huck might get endorsed by someone that people really respect…thus Huck appears to out-class the others.

Now if this endorsement is by some lukewarm person (Boortz), Huck could look like he is dodging his record.