Why Did Ron Paul Lose New Hampshire

[Porcupine_in_MA]

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

That Mr. Mencken was a smart man.

[dalebert]

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.' The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BRILLIANT

[Hittman]

I've been reading a few of your posts, I can see how angry you are at all of this.  I am trying to be optimistic, but I am also angry as hell.  Not at Ron or his campaign and supporters, but at the knuckle-dragging imbeciles who represent 95% of the population.  My feeling is that these people don't deserve Ron Paul, they do not deserve liberty.  They deserve all the government they're going to get.  A part of me really just wants to say "fuck you" to all of these people.  I wish we liberty lovers could just leave the planet and settle the moon or something, and leave the rest of the population to stew in the shit pile they have created.

I'm with you, completely.  A state won't work.  We need a planet. 

Of course, if we had open immigration, not screening for attitude, in another generation or two it would just be another big government. 

And until just a few days ago, as actively trying to fight the 95%, which is something I've been doing for decades.  And finally, I've had enough, and am giving up.  Fuck you, 95%.  You deserve the stupid mess you've created. 

Unfortunately, the 5% (or 8%, but certainly no more than 10%) who really understand liberty, who love it, and would like to live it, are sucked down into the quicksand of their stupidity.

Mencken was brilliant, funny, depressing, and 100% right.  He should be part of every public school curriculum.  But that would be real education, so it won't happen. 

[SamR]

Hey, stay positive.  Things in this state are going in the right direction.  Who knows, maybe we'll have more of us than anything else.  We might see 20,000 eventually, anyway.