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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2012, 09:42:52 AM »
Nice sentiment.
Better if it weren't a guarantee of 4 more years of a proven communist.

What are you doing about it ?

This isn't the election to do something about it, but I've been voting Libertarian for over a decade.   Had more folks who refused to  hold their nose, maybe something might have changed by now.
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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2012, 10:47:03 AM »
This isn't the election to do something about it, but I've been voting Libertarian for over a decade.   Had more folks who refused to  hold their nose, maybe something might have changed by now.


But they don't.
Based on past conduct the people deserve what they're getting.

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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2012, 10:50:33 AM »
Had more folks who refused to  hold their nose, maybe something might have changed by now.


Hey!  I was going to vote for my dog in 2008!

You folks convinced me to hold my nose and vote for McCain!

Like my friggin vote even matters anymore....

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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2012, 01:53:21 PM »
I always called Florida "The southern most State, north of the Mason-Dixon". Northeast (mostly NY) and Michigan dominate much of the political landscape. Not all, but enough to make the difference. For me, if I ever moved back, it would be the mid-panhandle or nothing..
Newt can do well in the southeast, through Texas and Oklahoma. That counts for alot. He just has to survive that long..
Unless somebody new comes in at the Convention, I've got no place to go. It's Newt or nothing.. I get my say on 3/13..
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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2012, 04:10:23 PM »
Romney's victory isn't surprising....Florida is the most liberal of the "red States"....Romney winning it was a given.....doesn't mean that he'll win the others.....

Gingrich actually won the Northern Counties...Closer to the "southern" states that states like Alabama, Georgia, Miss, Louisiana, and others Newt will probably do better in. Like S. Carolina.

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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2012, 05:04:23 PM »
Psssst - Col. Allen West. Write-in candidate. Pass the word.
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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2012, 07:41:12 PM »
Florida's primary is screwy. Think about it.

The candidate that over half the voters DIDN'T want, got all the delegates.

They should have had a runoff.

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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2012, 08:37:19 AM »
Hey!  I was going to vote for my dog in 2008!

You folks convinced me to hold my nose and vote for McCain!

Like my friggin vote even matters anymore....

Last one wasn't the time to go on principle either....unless the principle was to keep BHO from loading the country into a hand cart and releasing the break.

I think the Republican Establishment does the same thing....but they are on a lesser slope downhill.

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Re: So Romney Takes Florida,...But,...
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2012, 08:41:57 AM »
Florida's primary is screwy. Think about it.

The candidate that over half the voters DIDN'T want, got all the delegates.

They should have had a runoff.



The ideal plan would be to do runoffs until a candidate have a majority, or even greater, of the votes.

Each run off you eliminate the lowest vote getter and see who those voters supported.

Problem is there is no time to schedule a new ballot, get them printed and anything else that might be required.

Maybe a ballot where you number your choices....if your first choice doesn't make the cut, they know who your second choice is...and your third.  When you run out of candidates you can support, no one gets your vote.

I guess  "None of the Above" would be where to put your vote as your last choice.    If, after all the runoffs, "None of the Above" has the majority, no one gets the nod.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
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"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
— Daniel Webster

 

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