Campaign for Ron Paul...Just don't vote for him.

Think it makes the most sense.

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[Kiddeth]

I like what you're saying... but that hair cut.. grow it long, dread locks a mullet I don't care. You do not seems to be a douche bag so why do you have a douche bag hair cut. This boggles me.

[KIDiotequeA]

@Kiddeth

I'm of the opinion that substance and action are the deciding factors when douchbaggery is in question. Not style...

I did get a chuckle out of the comment though...

[barccy]

Your assertions throughout the video seem contradictory. If you're advocating a transitional changeover, electing libertarian repeal/reform politicians is the means to achieving your ends. Voting for a candidate is not consent to statism, it is voting for a candidate within the already existing state system that will continue along its path unless changed (voting being one of the necessary means of change). It would only make sense for you to vote.

[KIDiotequeA]

@barccy

I disagree. If you vote for candidates that openly acknowledge a legitimate purpose for theft (wealth distribution/taxes), you are sanctioning the state.

In the same way, if you vote for a candidate that recognizes and condones preemptive war, you sanction those actions.

I thought I made this clear in the video. You may disagree on utilitarian grounds, but surely not in principle. I do not see the contradiction you allude to.

[barccy]

@KIDiotequeA You say you will not vote in principle, but also believe you can form coalitions with voters and within principle bring about change politically which is also against principle? And you say that voting to negate the state is within principle but voting isn't ever principled because it's an endorsement of statism?

It's like everything you say before about the 3:20 or so minute of the video is a completely different thought than the rest of the video, unless I'm missing something.

[KIDiotequeA]

@barccy

Now I see the error. I am not of the notion that all voting is categorically an endorsement of state.

Voting for Ron Paul, would be an endorsement of state, as he sees a legitimate purpose for taxation.

Hypothetically if someone like Rothbard were running on a platform expressly to dismantle the state, without allocating any tax funds in the process, etc...I would have no problem voting for him, nor would I be endorsing, or sanctioning the state.

[MutantKush]

Not voting for Ron Paul would just be a win for Romney or some other paid politician, instead of putting a principled libertarian on the main stage.

[TheIronicBanana]

Did you see the debate, he owned!

[AtomicHoosier]

.......You missed Ron Pauls point by a mile.....kinda sad when you think about it...

[Ammoroso29]

watch?v=sACfOBhnGBQ&feature=re­lated

[nrshaffer21]

But what's a better way to get people interested in Libertarianism? Putting a Libertarian in the White House!

[BnkWrATMt1ts]

You're off the Nolan Chart, man. There is no such thing as an anarcho-capatilist society.

[BnkWrATMt1ts]

Paleolibertarian/Paleoconserva­tive/Minarchist4life.

maybe one day you'll see the light :-p

[ItsTiedToAStick]

There are some things i'm not too keen on that Ron Paul is for but compared to the competition Ron Paul is by far the greatest candidate out there who will make a lot of things right.

[B4MYTYM]

This rhetorical moron has got a severe case of Bieber Fever.

By the way, what war on drugs are you talking about. Governments are not going to conduct a war on a cash cow you idiot!

[bdmenne]

I would argue that voting for Ron Paul is the best way to campaign for Ron and the future, which is anti-statism. Cheers. Btw, the hair isn't what gets me. Is the shirt that I take issue with.

[bdmenne]

Then vote for Ron Paul if he is the gateway drug to anarchism. He got you there. Show him and your fellow peeps some love and vote RP! I bet you are not even registered as a Republican, making you ineligible to vote in the primaries. You are scared of Molyneux's collapse with no market to catch it. Then let the free market conversation continue with RP?