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Stop Romney; vote for Ron Paul in New Hampshire

By: tooncesthecat (Diary)  |  January 9th, 2012 at 02:47 PM  | 

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Before you call me a Paulbot and start ranting about how dangerous and deranged Ron Paul is, please hear me out.  I am not advocating a President Ron Paul.  I am proposing that conservatives have only one chance of defeating Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, which may be the last chance of stopping his inevitable march to the nomination.  If Romney wins big in New Hampshire, both South Carolina and Florida will fall like dominoes.  He must be stopped tomorrow.  And the only person that has a chance of defeating him in New Hampshire is — Ron Paul.

In the Suffolk/News Tracking Poll, Paul has closed the gap between he and Romney from 29 points to 13 points in the last five days.  Romney is going down, Paul is going up and closing in.  With independents permitted to vote in New Hampshire, Paul probably has more than the 20% he is currently polling.  At the same time, Santorum and Gingrich are mired at 10% – 11% each,  about half of Paul’s vote.  Neither has any credible chance of bringing down Romney in New Hampshire.  But Paul can.

Gingrich and Santorum voters can do one of two things tomorrow.  You can stand by your men and watch Romney post a major victory.  Or, you can vote for Ron Paul and bring Romney down.  Can you imagine the headlines and the unmitigated disaster for Romney if he were to lose New Hampshire to — OMG — Ron Paul.  His support in South Carolina and Florida would collapse overnight.

And if you think that winning New Hampshire would make Ron Paul the Republican nominee, then you’re the Paulbot, not me.

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  • lineholder

    Not in NH or any where else. For any reason!!!

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    nt…..

    • http://www.tooncesthecat.wordpress.com tooncesthecat

      what do you think about the merits of my proposal and do you have another plausible way of stopping Romney in New Hampshire?

      • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

        is not acceptable. For any reason.

        And to even suggest such a thing is idiocy. Rankly offensive idiocy.

        • jakeofalltrades

  • mikeymike143

    1. romney
    2. paul
    3. huntsman
    4. newt
    5. santorum
    6. perry

    romney is going to win there by double digits. so there is no need to vote for loon paul

    • youngconstitutionalist

      is trending down in New Hampshire. The latest poll puts him at +13 over Ron Paul (Romney 33-Paul 20-Huntsman 13), and Huntsman seems to be surging (another poll put it at Romney 35-Paul 18-Huntsman 16). Plus, a Romney defeat is him getting less than 35% or winning by less than 10%.

      Either way, voting Ron Paul is not the credited response in New Hampshire. In early states, the credited response is always to vote for your first choice candidate. This kind of strategy shouldn’t be considered until much later in the process, if at all.

  • youngconstitutionalist

    The only place where I think we should even consider this is in Virginia, if the lawsuit is unsuccessful in getting other candidates on the ballot. Even then, we would have to make sure that while the delegation is bound to Ron Paul on the roll call vote, they are not true Paul supporters. If Ron Paul supporters control the delegation from more than one or two small states, they’ll cause a ruckus at the convention.

  • BigRedConservative

    How could you even consider it? That was an absolutely idiotic idea. I mean it when I say, as a person with more than room-temperature IQ, I would vote for a dead goat over Paul.

    • http://www.tooncesthecat.wordpress.com tooncesthecat

      Yeah, I would advocate doing that also, if the dead goat was in 2nd place to Romney in the polls and had a chance of winning. In the meantime, since there is no dead goat on the ballot in New Hampshire, I’ll stick with my first recommendation, which is to vote for Ron Paul as the only candidate with a chance to stop Romney’s momentum.

      • BigRedConservative

        Then why not encourage us to vote for the only proven conservative with a chance of winning in NH, the man who is most qualified on foreign policy, the man with the only coherent deficit-reduction and tax plans, and the man who Erick and several of the front-pagers have kindly praised several times, Jon Huntsman? But to consider voting for that homophobic, anti-Semitic creep Ron Paul makes my skin crawl.