RP is great but it’s time to look past him and see what our next move is. Let’s not make the same mistakes as the Ross Perot/Reform Party people made. They frittered away their momentum.

“…he doesn’t care enough to stage an independent bid and try to get into the debates. And the fact that he’s staying in the Republican party, when his philosophy is obviously libertarian, is just intellectually dishonest. That’s all there is to it.” jg

Nonsense. Nothing would be more useless or pointless than a 3rd party Paul campaign at this point. It would undermine everything he has done. In this campaign he has done more to promote and popularize libertarian ideas than any one else in my memory. The campaign was an enormous success. As a congressman he provides the Republican party with a continuous and much needed jolts from a libertarian cattle prod. We need him to be reelected and back in Congress where he does the most good. I applaud his decision. I only wish there was a Democratic Party Ron Paul providing the same service to the Democratic party.

Now the GOP will straight up lose against Hillary and Obama and there can be no blaming Paul. You guys called Paul’s supporters “Troofers” and “kooks” and “white supremacists” during the primaries but I guarantee you us Troofers/kooks/white supremacists will be blamed when we stay home in the general election. Funny how we’re kooks one minute but later on we’re traitorous conservatives or “Losertarians” who won’t hold their nose for the RINO.

Going 3rd party was never an option. Ron Paul already played that game in 1988 and got burned by it. The best thing to do is to once again reclaim the GOP from the Northeastern Rockefellers and wanna-be Democrats who are running the party into the ground. The GOP did nothing as Ron Paul was smeared, ignored, lied to, and the new, previous apathetic voters who joined the cause were ridiculed as stupid kids or kooks. Payback is a female dog though, because all those new voters that registered Republican for Paul? They’re the future of the GOP. Paul will be remembered 20 years from now like Reagan but who’s going to remember McCain when he gets his ass handed to him by Hillary or Obama? Who’s going to remember Mr. 9/11 Giuliani? Fred Thompson? Mitt Romney? Ron Paul has far exceeded expectations and have already run the greatest grassroots campaign in American political history.

CNN now projects the TaliBaptists of Kansas have given the state to Buck-A-Tooth.

I predict heavy drinking in this household tonight.

Maybe I’ll say a prayer or two for the Bloomberg/Hagel show…

Man… I feel like my whole week just went down the crapper…