Is the Republican Party Facing an Enthusiasm Gap?

No, that is not true. The Democrats did not display this stupidity. The Democrats came together and Hillary supported Obama. Democrats are not zealous idiots.

RON PAUL AND THE BIGGEST IRONY OF OUR LIFETIME

Why is a nation gifted with a world top class Constitution, based on democratic principles, getting the results of a bankrupt third world dictatorial welfare/warfare state? It’s not the Constitution that failed the people. It’s the people of America that failed the Constitution at all levels of society.

The leaders of the country have certainly failed the people by catering to special interest groups to the point of being dominated in most every aspect of political life. That’s the reason why our financially dominated and carefully crafted election rules and procedures assure that only Presidents are chosen who will allow the wars to go on, as the country goes further into bankruptcy, while individual and civil rights are constantly lost along the way.

Even the most important economic decisions are made by the same group of private bankers, often the very same individuals, which the government is not even allowed to audit or monitor (Federal Reserve), regardless of which establishment candidate from either party becomes President.

A free press and mass media were given special privileges as well as important obligations to prevent America’s takeover by an elite establishment. Their actual news coverage was to be informative, balanced, and guided by democratic principles, especially when it comes to elections. Coverage was to be fair and basically limited to reporting the facts while letting the voters decide.

The mass media in turn has made a mockery out of democratic and free elections during the last two Presidential campaigns when it came to their coverage of Ron Paul. During much of this time he was ignored, laughed at, ridiculed, marginalized, and/or declared “fringe” and “unelectable”

To any close political observer it is obvious that the mass media has completely abandoned its obligation to journalism and its role in a democracy by actively going out of its way to circumvent the campaign of someone truly challenging the elite establishment. The mass media grossly failed America as well.

The last line of defense for preserving a democracy and the interests of the people are the people themselves and, perhaps most sadly of all, they have been conditioned to supporting the destructive elite establishment as well.

It is simply astonishing that a Christian nation which claims to honor God’s commandments supports establishment candidates who stand for rushing into pre-emptive wars built on deliberate lies and false slogans to create massive suffering, hatred, and terrorism, as a first resort.

It is simply astonishing that Tea Party members who came together to cut federal spending are voting for establishment candidates as opposed to Ron Paul who not only presents the only serious plan to carry this out but has been the only candidate who has consistently fought for such action to be taken during the past 20 years.

It is simply astonishing that OWS, with one of its main positions being to “End the Fed,” fails to support the one candidate who brought this and many other issues on behalf of the people to light due to basically fighting alone for 20 years with basically no support during much of this time.

The failure of the American people does not stem from evil but rather from perhaps the biggest irony of our lifetime: The establishment, with its supportive mass media that serves more as a cheerleader than a source of information, has been able to convince most Americans that the one candidate who speaks the documented truth, follows the good advice of our forefathers which served us so well over many decades, and supports the U.S. Constitution, is “fringe,” “unelectable,” and “dangerous.”

I still hope and pray that enough people from every segment of the population will come together in time to the save the day and elect Ron Paul as our next president. The alternative is to accept endless wars, bankruptcy, full scale Depression, and the self-destruction of a once great nation.

It is time for all of us to realize that both parties are, essentially, one in the same. Yes, each has its own business masters. In the end, however, they are one in the same from our perspective. They will rob us of our tax dollars until the country falls by the way side. Once you and I fall into revolution, killing one another over food, air, water and some form of money, they will retreat into their mansions high upon the hills we all hold so sacred.

Think about it. The basis of our country is “democracy” or “republicanism.” The notion is that we have “choices” in our political leaders. Yes, we have choices. However, two big businesses control our choices: Democrats and Republicans. They divide us with their brilliant propaganda and rhetoric. They turn us against one another, fully realizing that our division is their power.
They rely upon what Gramsci termed “cultural hegemony.” One social class maintains control by manipulating the societal culture in terms of beliefs, explanations, perceptions and values so that the ruling class world view is imposed as the societal norm which is then perceived by the populous as a universally valid ideology. It becomes “common sense” that either a Democrat or Republican should be elected. It becomes “common sense” that the U.S. is somehow exceptional and that all others are inferior. It encourages the young and poor to die on the battlefields so that the old and rich may continue to live in their mansions.

This country was founded upon the protection of wealth. For well over 230 years, it has been the greatest capitalist coup in the history of humankind. So long as you and I label each other as “liberal” or “conservative,” as “Democrat” or “Republican,” as “rich” or “poor,” we empower them to commandeer our liberty, livelihood, and political well-being.

Changing parties is no different than re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The system is rotten and corrupt.

This year the GOP has the biggest chance to take back the White House and Senate, but AS USUAL they are shooting themselves in the foot. This current group of candidates do NOT inspire any enthusiasm whatsoever. Romney is basically an 0bama-lite. Once again the GOP establishment has let the party down, this time they may not recover. There is strong talk of many people leaving the party, this time it may be real. Once a strong 3rd party gets going you can kiss the GOP goodbye.

Here’s the truth; the establishment Republicans will not support Ron Paul due to his anti-war stance. Even though 68% of Americans are also oppose to war, the Republican party wants to ignore this information. Candidates like Rick Santorum are actually threatening to go to war with Iran. This will be an easy win for Obama thanks to the denial by Republicans that most Americans are anti-war and will not support a candidate that is so eager to go to war.

Actually it’s normal to see that far right ideologues who do little more than pander to a radical base with promises of making contraception illegal, pledges to compromise previously held mainstream positions merely to please the base, and who present schemes for the moon that even the base thinks are stupid all combine to make mainstream republicans stay at home. That makes perfect sense. Of course the health of the political system in DC is sickeningly corrupt, and that is why the candidates the wealthy power brokers stand up are so crushingly out of touch with either voters or with reality. They need people they can control, not who think for themselves. It’s a disconnect, plain and simple. Disaffected Rep’s don’t want to vote for anybody, nor should they.

There will be a big PROBLEM with me if Romney wins the nomination. When I found out that he was running again, I nearly broke down and cried. Twitty Mitty is ho-hum, he’s boring, he’s lackluster, he’s an elitist who’s doing nothing but stoking his ego. I much prefer either Gingrich or Santorum. They’ll give Obumma a better run for his money. The polls already indicate that Obumma would beat Romney in the general election. That said, if Twitty Mitty wins, I will stay home on election day and drink beer while I see Obumma win a second term.

83% of Florida republicans did not vote for Mitt Romney
67% of Nevada republicans did not vote for Mitt Romney

He spent close to $30,000,000 on these two primaries and this was the result. Is this guy a business man?

“Is the Republican Party Facing an Enthusiasm Gap?”

An enthusiasm gap, an intelligence gap, a sanity gap, and a reality gap.

FREEDOM: Any of the candidates would be a breath of fresh air and the savor of this country. People are just waiting for the real election in November

ALL of the candidates are like leftover trash IMO. The WHOLE nation is NOT happy with any of these poor, pityful candidates. You have one Rich man that changes his position like the moon in the sky does, another is an old horse that is SO unliked even by his OWN party that he can NEVER win against the President but SOME people love him simply because he can be so darn NASTY, next we have a Fairly decent man who is a religious fanatic that turns off a pile of folks, and then we have a person that makes oh so much sense UNTIL it comes to our foreign affairs and a couple of minor things here in the USA. IF I were a Republican I would NOT be voting at all this year because the WHOLE bunch is just an embarrassment to the party. Run whichever is the BEST you’ve got and we’ll see President Obama taking the oath in 2013!

History repeats itself but nobody reads or listens. If by some time warp we were transported by to 1930 and 1931, we’d see the only difference is the costumes.

The republicans in 1930 and 1931 tried to do the same thing to FDR as they are doing to President Obama today. They immediately forgot about Herbert Hoover, delayed and obstructed every program that helped working Americans, and said FDR was a dictator and a socialist.

Luckily for FDR and America, these republicans were thrown out of office and FDR got a Congress he could work with. That’s why he was re-elected three times.

ALL of the candidates are like leftover trash IMO. The WHOLE nation is NOT happy with any of these poor, pityful candidates.really, and they just can’t wait for four more years of change we thought we could believe in. You obviously don’t pay taxes.

The republicans are desperate. They know the Bush administration got us into this mess. They also know that if President Obama is re-elected and we come out of this recession, they will be out of power for the next 50 years just like after the great depression. They will say or do anything to prevent that.

Believe me, the republicans will do what we have to do to beat Obama. Lets see who our nominee is, then we will get behind him 100%….

ABO… ABO….

ONE-Term…. Obama is destroying American properity.

Everytime Obama comes out with another socialist proclamation taking away our guaranteed freedoms and undermining our Constitution it’s not only Republicans who are enthusastic about voting him out of office but also the radical wing of the Democrat Party along with him.

Well, I wish they were making it up as they go along, but this is all a very well coordinated strategy with the leftwing press and the Obama campaign.
Note the ABC poll – a telephone poll with negatives about Romney included in the script – was conducted to give Obama a lead? Note his Dept of Labor Statistics dropped a record 1,200,000 Americans off the unemployment rolls so they could show a drop in the unemployment rate?
No, this has ALL BEEN CAREFULLY ORCHASTRATED.

Democrats are confusing GOP apathy with the primary with apathy come November. Many people, such as myself know that we’re voting for whomever the GOP candidate will be opposing Obama.

Romney, Newt & Santorum may have their differences, but those are measured with a micrometer when compared to Obama’s policies are miles away from our own.

Look at the diversity of the crowd in that photo! I see brown hair, blonde hair, grey hair, and bald people. They are catholics, baptists, evangelicals, pentacostals, even a mormon.

To protect our country from four more years of our Incompetent-In-Chief, you’ll see GOP turnout like you’ve NEVER seen before.

Everyone seems to forget the 2010 election cycle. In Obama’s own words, a shellacking. Has Obama adjusted politically in any way to counter those results?

Reagan Conservatives are not now, nor have they ever been, or will we ever be, attracted to Romney as a Conservative candidate, let alone any other candidate, because he is not a conservtive, period. He is just another liberal Republcian Party RINO establishment elitist, like the Bush’s. This is why there is no entusiasm in the GOP race, where RRomney is massing a massive anti-newt campaign, to buy the Republican Party Noimination votes, via his GOP establishment apparatus and corporate donors like Goldman Sach’s, filling his coffer with contributions.

And when ones says, “well then why did they, the Reagan conservatives, vote for the Bush’s for the last 3 times the Republican Party held the Presidency”.. I say, because of the Bush’s connection to Ronald Reagan. Just like people gravitate to a son of a great leader, like JFK and JFK Jr., in hopes of getting some of the same qualities, leadership, and policies, they loved so much in the original person. The Bush’s, 41 and his son 43, were neither charismatic, nor all that conservative. They were the standard GOP flag bearing Republican party elitists. But, they were considered a safe vote, only because of their connection to President Ronald Reagan. That’s all.. It’s the connection.