To feel the “change,” as professed by Mr. Obama in 2008, please join me and so many others in 2012 for Ron Paul. If you view his issues as radical, please, i beg of You to invest a little time to research exactly what is being talked about. America cannot afford more of the same.

Constitutionally, legislatively, and morally, Ron Paul has no equal. His 22 year voting record speaks for itself. The World is watching. Ron Paul for President in 2012.

Thank You

http://www.issues2000.org/tx/Ron_Paul.htm The facts speak for themselves

Espeically if you consider Off shore accounts and federal fraud vis-a-vis the deliberate destruction of public companies for your own personal gain – to be a “petty” issue! Then you are their type of gal!

All anyone has to do is follow the money – there are some data bases – even he can not purge.

It is factual – that eToys is stolen property. Romney benefited from that federal fraud.

His company BAIN colluded with Goldman Sachs to defraud the public company. It was easy to accomplish. Bain and Goldman Sachs have the same attorney in DE. That law firm confessed to supplication of false affidavits in the DE federal court – that accomplished Fraud on the Court.

The reason the Dept of Justice did not investigate and prosecute the crimes; the DE US Attorney neglected to inform us – that he too was a partner with the Goldman Sachs and BAIN law firm in 2001. That is the very year that the crimes were committed.

Romney and BAIN owned the Learning Company – it merged with Mattle – who lost $1 billion dollars in the deal. Romney owns the lion share of Stage Stores – a bankruptcy engaged in Fraud with many of the same players invloved in eToys.

When a shareholder in Stage Stores owning only $4500 found some bad faith acts – the judge in that case fined him $300,000 and sent the US Marshals after him and his family.

eToys was in bankruptcy and Kay Bee Toys – a total of more than 5 times combined. BAIN now onws a monopoly on the independent retail toy industry – including Toys R Us. That acquired the bulk of the assets, eToys, Kay Bee Toys, FAO Schwartz, Baby Universe etc – thru Bankruptcy.

Romney and his group met the one attorney and his gang of cohorts at the NeoStar case in Florida; and have been getting more flagrant and brazen ever since.

You don’t have to be a good business man – if all you need to do is fix the problem by putting the entity into bankruptcy and stiffing all the creditors.

Not this time. We’re running out of chances. Get the guy that has actually done it a few times.

To simply say: “Ron Paul is not electable and Mitt Romney is” is to only parrot the talking point we have been fed by the media. The truth however is, Ron Paul was VERY electable. Someone just told you he wasn’t and you somehow believed it. How many times was Paul re-elected? He’s still holding office – and Romney and Palin are not.

Your points are valid, however, I think a more productive route would be to help in the political/constitutional education of Mr. Romney. He is head and shoulders ahead of Mr. Paul in terms of electability. And he has the religious understanding Mr. Paul does not.

Michael, this is why Romney is more accountable. He has more religious knowledge than Ron Paul ,but chooses to ignore it. Ron Paul has more love for and understanding of free agency in his little finger than Mitt has in his whole body and all without having the BOM. Mitt has the BOM but obviously has taken it lightly. He stands condemned because of the greater light he has received as a latter day saint.

I have to second most of Lonni’s observations. Mitt Romney has good stage presence but on most political philosophies that matter to me I find him severely lacking — not by missing education but by tragically flawed, calculated choice.

Romney decided to make national security the centerpiece of his Presidential campaign but consciously chose to sell-out to the PNAC / FPI crew whose sole purpose appears to be fearmongering and escalation of conflict in the middle east. He has years of high-level business experience but his political decisions regarding finance are bafflingly flawed beyond any reasonable expectation that it is a simple question of ‘lacking education’. When Mitt Romney proclaimed it wise to be more judicious in spending in every federal department *except* defense, for instance, I began to lose faith that Romney could transfer his business skills uncorrupted to public service. He railed on and on during the campaign about how ‘you can set *no* limits on the defense budget’ — as if there was no use at all examining military budgets for waste, fraud, etc. . . . as if politicians and bureaucrats were infallible in their careful use of defense funds to make sure our servicemen and women were always well equipped and defended . . . and as if it were some kind of unforgivable blasphemy to question the propriety of perpetual wars beyond any limits of actually being able to finance them.

Romney seems full of empty, unsupportable postures like that which are calculated to win votes amongst a shallow and casual electorate.

As for general electability, however, you’ll notice that Romney was not expected to win re-election as governor while Ron Paul keeps getting re-elected to U.S. Congress election after election. Perhaps Romney’s constituents began to see through his ephemeral posturings while Paul’s constituents found actual, thoughtful convictions behind each position.

Connor, you’re a man after my own heart! Back at the time you posted this I was arguing these same points. Primarily that Ron Paul is a statesman worthy of our attention, promotion, and votes; that Romney is a politician who will say and do whatever he thinks will get him elected; and that voting your conscience is superior to supporting the lesser of two evils.

First, the reasons I have never supported Mitt Romney (and I gave him a fair chance) is because I found myself nodding my head to 90% of the things he said but I also found myself shaking my head at 90% of the things he’s done. This proves that he’s either inconsistent, dishonest, or both. Either way, as you pointed out, he seemed to care more about promoting himself to power than he did about liberty, the Constitution, and the American people.

I’ve been paying close attention to Ron Paul for about five years now and he consistently has proven himself to be a true statesman, a friend to liberty.

As I read through the first 15 or so comments I noticed a lot of people caring more about which party has a chance of winning than what principles are correct and which candidate will support those principles. I can (kind of) understand why some people would ignore John Quincy Adam’s quote on voting for principle but I have a harder time understanding why so many members conveniently ignore Hyrum Smith and Joseph Smith. Just so no member can brush off their statements as mere opinion or outdated advice, let’s see you LDS people ignore what the Lord said in D&C 98:10(4-11),

Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil.

Does the candidate you voted for in the past election pass the Lord’s criteria for supporting a person in secular office? Are they good, honest, and wise? If they weren’t, the Lord points out that your decision “cometh of evil”. Repent.