Thread: Occupy Dreamviews

Originally Posted by ninja9578

During the 2008 election he was on the Ballot as "Constitutional Party" in the few states that placed him on the ballot. His views are Republican, but because he can't get their nomination, he went third party. If the voters who voted for Paul wanted a Republican, they would have voted for McCain, they knew Paul wouldn't win the election, so they voted for him purely as a statement. Same way Nader was a Democrat in most of his views, but ran under the Green Party's nomination, no one thought Nader would win, the votes for him were just a statement. Now drop it and go back to the Occupy Wallstreet thread.

You know the motives of every person that voted for RP or Nader? Interesting.

Originally Posted by BLUELINE976

You know the motives of every person that voted for RP or Nader? Interesting.

The thing is, if people are too stupid to vote properly, they don't say "oh I'm gonna be koolz and votez Ron Paul, man".
They post on their facebook "WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR!??? I DON'T KNOW WHO I SHOULD CHOOSE!"
And they end up going with one of the two main candidates, because they probably don't even realise any other parties exist. (Unless I convince them to vote Greens of course )

So the people who vote Ron Paul are the ones who are making an informed decision and realise the two main candidates are a turd sandwhich and a douchebag.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

NOT EVERY candidate gets corporate backing; Paul (I know, I'm a broken record) has all branches of military servicemen as three of his top four donor groups, Army, Navy, and Air Force. No other candidate has them in the top 20.

Wait, how does that work? I hope the US military isn't using federal money to fund a single political candidate?

Originally Posted by tommo

The thing is, if people are too stupid to vote properly, they don't say "oh I'm gonna be koolz and votez Ron Paul, man".
They post on their facebook "WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR!??? I DON'T KNOW WHO I SHOULD CHOOSE!"
And they end up going with one of the two main candidates, because they probably don't even realise any other parties exist. (Unless I convince them to vote Greens of course )

So the people who vote Ron Paul are the ones who are making an informed decision and realise the two main candidates are a turd sandwhich and a douchebag.

Solid logic there...

I don't see how it isn't. Obviously it doesn't apply to everyone, nothing does.

But it is obvious that most people who would vote for a non-main candidate/party are doing so because they realise their policies are better, and the two main candidates suck.

Rather than just "oh I'm gonna be cool and vote for this random dude".