The 2008 presidential field at-a-glance

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

By election, do you mean electing the nominee at the Republican Convention? Cause I got to tell you - I hate Huckabee almost as much as McCain.
I'm just tired of picking the least objectionable candidate. Even though I disagree with some of Paul's platform, I believe in his integrity in a way I don't believe in anyone else's. I do NOT know what I am going to do if it is McCain vs. Clinton/Obama. Shudder.

I mean nomination. Yeah. I'm voting for Obama for much of the same reasons you're voting for Paul. And though there are plenty of people who dislike McCain, but aren't Huck fans, they're not the largest "mass" of Republicans, the ones who are most likely to "do" something at the convention. Disillusioned libertarians in the general will vote McCain, cross the party line, or vote third party. They won't affect the nomination. (Not that religious conservatives are likely to either, just sayin)

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I agree with what you've said about Ron Paul; I just want to note that it's not just religions conservatives who aren't super-excited about McCain.

Noted, see above.

Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

In other words, Ron Paul won't win the GOP nomination because:

1. The GOP's core values have been perverted by corrupt politicians and Ron Paul would put an end to that corruption (or at least interfere with its progress).

Do you realize you color every post by paragraphs: I doubt it, he just wouldn't get much done. He might be an uncorrupt politician, maybe, but he won't "put an end" to it.

2. Ron Paul is opposed to an abortion amendment and defining marriage constitutionally because it is not the federal government's duty to legislate such matters (as well as a host of other matters), nor was it ever the Founding Fathers' intent for the federal government to legislate such.

Hence why I'm voting Democrat. I'm in agreement with you, except that this is not why Paul isn't being voted for in the general public, but why he isn't going to be elected at the nomination. McCain is against the same constitutional amendments, Paul doesn't bring more to the table for the largest group of angry Republicans.

In short, Ron Paul is going to lose the GOP nomination because he is trying to bring cleanliness where is is filth, and the dirty folk aren't about to go out quietly.

No, because he got nearly nothing of the popular vote and exactly how many delegates? He's not going to win the nomination because he lost the delegate count. He's not going to sneak in and overthrow the nomination because MOST people who dislike McCain will not see him as an acceptable alternative.

He's not some martyr, he's unpopular among voters. (Which as Howard Dean can tell you doesn't mean he's unpopular on the internet, but that it apparently takes an Obama to get those supporters to vote for you.)