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longwatch wrote:
I don't think hes giving up, its just that Thompson and Paul are looking to have long odds at winning now. However, in the event of a brokered convention 1 delegate could be worth all of them, so I'm sticking with Paul. My second choice is Huckabee, because I feel he is the most progun of the front runners.
Yes, delegates are the key (and in a brokered convention, the delegates aren't bound).
I'm not giving up on Paul by
any stretch. But every single person on this forum is used to making contingency plans...otherwise we wouldn't be here at OCDOwould we?
Plus, there are a few lost souls
here who don't support Ron Paul and I like watching the discussion.
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By the by, my "second favorite" (since I'm assuming Freddy T. is toast) would be Huckster if not for the fact that he couldn't even promise that he'd veto the expansion of SCHIP. So with Huckster, you get socialism galore with a recognition of gun rights. With Mr. "100 years war," you get endless war for...???..., barely any respect for the 2nd Amendment, buta fair amount of fiscal restraint.
In choosing my second fav, I think I'll say gun rights trump the fiscal situation since our economy's going to hell anyway...that was decided in 1913 (and the gov't going bankrupt wouldn't be all that bad anyway...might be fun. Will I be able to repossess their assets? I call Statue of Liberty. I guess the Chinese would get that actually. Damn. Well, with our GDP at $13B and our national debt at $9B with a huge unfunded mandate coming up with Social Security, we'll find out soon enough). So Huckster's probably my 2nd favorite.
Actually I think I like Mitt Wit...no I don't...yes I do...well, I did, but now I do until I don't. "let me be perfectly clear, I never supported Mitt, but now I do, and when I didn't, I did." And that's all I have to say about that.