Thoughts on voting in a GOP primary

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34. "Anybody who really wants the Repukes to win despises Paul."

This is very true. And the amount of amusement I take in his surge among GOP primary voters is without measure. Confession - as an 18 year old first time voter I voted for Ron Paul in 1988 as the Libertarian candidate for president. I was a dope smoking college student raised in a very Republican part of the country and I liked him for being consistent in his conservatism (keeping the government off the backs of we pot smokers as well as the backs of the CEOs) - as I grew older and wiser I realized that Libertarianism is nothing more than - as someone else has put better - the philosophy of pot smoking Republicans, nothing more, nothing less. During the dark ages of the early Bush year, when one was unpatriotic for saying anything contrary to the Bush regime, Ron Paul, in a conservative district spoke out against the Patriot Act and the Iraq conquest. For that I give him props. But I would rather have my (dissapointingly) moderate Democratic president than a libertarian. The destruction libertarians would do to our social safety net (such as it is) can not be allowed. If the general election were between Paul and Romney (or Huntsman) I would vote for Romney or Hunstman. Luckily I have the Obama choice and will take it - dissapointed (pissed off as I am.)