Monday, October 8, 2012

Ohio Republicans Should Vote for Gary Johnson



Ohio Republicans Should Vote for Johnson
Charlie Earl

The following headline introduced a story on Newsmax.com on Friday October 5th.

GOP Sees Path to Romney Victory Without Ohio
Thursday, 04 Oct 2012 02:52 PM
By Dan Weil

If the headline is true, and the GOP and the Romney campaign team are calculating a victory sans Ohio, then the implication is that they cede the state to Obama. Dedicated Republicans, liberty lovers and GOP Kool-Aid drinkers should take note and pursue a strategy that moves the cause of liberty forward while simultaneously sticking the shiv into the Obama campaign. Vote for liberty while confounding the leftists and statists.

Another benefit for Republican support of Gary Johnson is that it will discredit the establishment GOP power structure in Ohio. These are the RINO’s who have systematically and consistently thwarted Tea Party and liberty efforts to promote and elect constitutional candidates. Those of us who value liberty and constitutional governance more than simple political expediency have tolerated the “lesser of two evils” theme for decades. Now…we should turn the tables on those who claim to cherish the Constitution and freedom. If Romney and the GOP Establishment have indeed given up on Ohio, wouldn’t a migration to a constitutional third-party candidate make sense? You could join those disaffected Democrats who seek an alternative to their Marxist wonder boy, but cannot completely cross the line to vote for an apparent losing (in the state) Republican. It’s a win-win-win…. For constitutional republicans, discouraged democrats and liberty-loving libertarians….oh yes, another win for our state and our nation as the demand for smaller responsible government echoes across the land.

Some newer polls that were released on Sunday suggest that Romney may have a slight lead in Ohio. If true and verifiable, the Romney campaign crew will probably dump huge resources into the Buckeye state to solidify the “lean.” If this scenario should develop, then you should vote for the liberty candidate because the GOP won’t need you. Either way….your most reasonable option, and the best alternative for defeating leftists and RINO’s is to vote for liberty. On the other hand, if you truly enjoy the taste of Kool-Aid, then continue to support the same inexorable slide into socialism that has served us so poorly for the past century. Socialism is not a matter of degree. It is an absolute as government controls the people and the means of production. Whether one reaches socialist nirvana via the fast track or the incremental one is meaningless. The end result….the bottom line….the final outcome is the same. To prefer the slower route is an amazingly selfish point-of-view because you are enjoy a little bit of our remaining liberty so that your children and grandchildren can be enslaved. Delaying the inevitable always leads to the inevitable. The only variable is the length of the delay.

Charlie Earl





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