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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (29427)	2/14/2008 5:44:52 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218962

McCain had a fund-raising problem at one point in the campaign because the party machinery was set up to fund only Reagan-think candidates. Yet this was out of sync with Republican voters who voted for McCain in spite of a paucity of advertisements. In contrast, Ron Paul has a voter problem, in spite of raising phenomenal amounts of money. Let's see why. I agree with the "non-belligerent" label for Ron Paul instead of pacifist or isolationist. But regardless of what you call it, his belief that the United States should not be the "world's policeman" is like "voter repellent" in the Republican party. Ron Paul's stated opposition to wild debt expansion and government deficits particularly alienates the Reagan segment of the Republican party. One of Reagan's most famous quotes was "Debt doesn't matter," as frequently cited by Dick Cheney. For these voters it is a article of faith that debt is the elixir of economic growth. It's the magic which allows the US to patrol the world while paying only a small fraction in taxes. The constitutional structure of the Electoral Vote militates against the success of independent candidates by design. It is one of the counter-weights against an "out of control" democracy which so worried the "Founding Fathers". If America were a parliamentary system where alliances of smaller parties were the norm, then things might be different. Regardless of Ron Paul's political views Americans have never voted an independent candidate to the Presidency. In each attempt when the independent candidate has been relatively successful, they failed while enabling the election of the candidate who views were most in opposition to their's. Examples are: former-President Teddy Roosevelt with the one-off Bull Moose party in 1912; Ross Perot in 1992; and Ralph Nader in 2000. en.wikipedia.org As a result most American's, I thin rightly, believe that voting for a candidate means the success of your least favorite candidate. I suspect an independent Ron Paul candidacy would assist the election of John McCain as Ron Paul's views are most in sync with Democratic voters, in spite of his being a Republican. Democrats were most recently burned by the support of Ralph Nader who offered views which were nearly identical to those of Ron Paul on more topics than those in which they differ. .