A Poll for All Ron Paul Supporters
by Patrick Ruffini :: November 6th, 2007 6:32 pmThis poll is for Ron Paul supporters ONLY. Because I’m curious.
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Unless Ron Paul were to be the Libertarian Party or third party candidate mentioned in your poll, I would write in his name on the ballot rather than vote for Clinton or Giuliani. Paul is the only presidential candidate I could vote for in good conscience unless another candidate were to somehow *convincingly* embrace Paul’s message of personal liberty and limited government, an event I find highly unlikely in our current political system.
Note that I have been a registered Republican and have always voted straight Republican since I became old enough to vote; however, if Rudy Giuliani is chosen as the party’s candidate, you can count me out of the GOP going forward, because the party will have abandoned — or outright betrayed — the foundational principles that originally attracted me to it.
I’m quite undecided on this. I’m on the West Coast and would probably be strategic. I’d vote Bush or just about anyone over Giuliani, including Clinton. Unless it was close, I’d write Paul in.
Those Rudy supporters are spamming the polls again! 
I would probably vote Libertarian or write in Paul. Indiana is almost guaranteed to go Republican, with or without my vote, so it depends if Paul or someone else seems a more worthy protest vote at the time.
Incidentally, in a Giuliani-Clinton race I think Clinton would win fairly easily.
If you want a better of idea of would Paul supporters choose a Republican over Clinton, you should pick a better example than Rudy.
I would vote for Thompson easily over Clinton. If the choice is between two gun-grabbing pro-choice pro-amnesty New York Liberals, then definitely, I’m voting for someone else.
I agree with the last poster, Clinton beats Giuliani Easily because conservatives will stay home rather than pull the lever for Rudy.
Steve
I would write in Dennis Kucinich. He’s my guy.
http://www.kucinich.us
You left out the only choice I would make: WRITE IN DR. PAUL
I noticed you left out a choice. I would write in Ron Paul.
Write in Ron Paul
It doesn’t matter who does what to pander to me, my vote is for Ron Paul and him alone. I took a clubbing from a cop in NYC while protesting the Republican National Convention, so my support of Republican Ron Paul is something I came to after long deliberation.
It woudn’t be apathy on my part; it would be a rejection of the BS candidates and system that allows the crap candidates to rise to the top.
Write in Ron Paul
Unity ‘08 People,
Every Ron Paul Supporter should be active in Unity ‘08, go to the site an become a delagate
One Rep(Ron Paul), One Dem (??), both anti-war, non-neo-con
Unity ‘08 w/Ron Paul is the other option. Spread the word, register and get active with Unity ‘08 as well.
Oh, and I forgot to add…
WRITE IN RON PAUL
(and gladly take another cop clubbing in Minneapolis if the RNC nominates someone else)
like every good paul supporter, i would write-in dr. paul. unless there was a 9/11 Truther on the ballot. or an anti-Semite. i DO want someone who instills dr. paul’s values.
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[…] But I also have one problem with Ruffini’s analysis too, which seems a little bit mechanistically partisan (a point that he himself implicitly acknowledges in his next post). After all, is it really fair to even think of Ron Paul as a Republican? He actually ran for the Presidency as a Libertarian in 1988, and now, following his fundraising exploits, there is talk that he might go for another third-party run in 2008. Furthermore, his principles and political ideology can hardly be described as being instep with the recent history of the Republican party (anti-foreign interventionism, in favour of a minimal state and balanced budget, against a gay marriage constitutional amendment, and, on libertarian grounds, against an anti-flag burning constitutional amendment, just to list some issues). But even more importantly, we have to ask whether the people supporting and giving money to him are even really Republicans in a meaningful sense? If we doubt they are (and I think there are good reasons to), it might be more appropriate to think of Paul’s campaign as an example of Internet-fuelled entryism, rather than evidence of a new Republican Internet success story. […]