Undecided Iowans Vote for Self-Destruction in Final Days Leading Up To Caucuses
Submitted by egervari on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 08:38So what happened in Iowa last night? Why didn't Ron Paul win? Well, if we are to believe the numbers are what really happened, then we can draw some conclusions.
According to the exit poll data, 53% of Iowans made their decision about who they would vote for as the Republican nominee for President leading up to December.
That means 53% of Iowans made their selection for president BEFORE the mainstream media had a chance to run their 3-week smear campaign against Dr. Paul and prop up another candidate like Rick Santorum. Among these voters, 31% of them voted for Dr. Paul, while only 9% voted for Santorum.
In contrast, when the remaining 46% of Americans left such an important decision to the final 3 days before the caucuses - and relied only on the "mainstream" media as their primary source of information - Iowans made very different decisions. Essentially the reverse happened: 33% of Iowans voted for Rick Santorum while only 11% voted for Ron Paul.
What can we draw from this?
One thing is clear: When Iowans are left alone to research the candidates over a long period of time, such as talking amongst their friends, watching the candidate's interviews and speeches, reading the candidate's books, and learning about the issues free from media interference - they come to VERY different conclusions about who the best president of the United States would be.
What I find most amusing is that the people who voted for Rick Santorum did so for things like "Family Values". Well, I have bad news to report to Rick Santorum supporters.
It is a fact that the destruction of the currency by the Federal Reserve is *the* reason why families earn less wealth per year than they did in the 1950's, when the family unit was much stronger.
With the cost of living skyrocketing over the years due to inflation, the Federal Reserve has essentially removed the option for one parent to raise the family while the other is at work.
Because of this fact, it has caused a surge in the need for public education - since neither parent can remain at home to raise and teach their kids. Most parents no longer have the option to home-school their children as they once did. Families have never been as disjointed as they are today - and the Federal government is the sole reason why this happened.
Voters need not look any further than Rick Santorum to find one of biggest supporters of the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education. While Rick does a good job giving lip-service to "Family Values", he advocates for policies that destroy family values and the family unit.
Perhaps if these undecided Iowans spent more time researching their candidates for president, using the same thought process they might go through when marrying a spouse or deciding to have children, they would have come to the correct conclusion about who *really* stands up for family values - Dr. Paul.
Dr. Paul is the best advocate for getting rid of the Federal government's involvement in the education of our children as well as bringing back sound money. Eliminating the federal reserve would preserve and protect the wealth of every American family - thus *strengthening* the family unit rather than destroying it.
The truth is clear: when the media doesn't interfere with Americans to use their own minds about who they would like to be the next President of the United States, Ron Paul would have been the clear winner.
But when Americans treat this process like a joke, and spend as little as a single day to make such an important decision - and rely on the mainstream media for their facts - they ultimately make decisions against their own rational self-interest.
Let's hope the rest of the country isn't so self-destructive.
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My "theory" is that many Iowans
listened to their "evangelical" leaders and voted for the candidate who was most pro zionist. Many still don't know the difference between jews and zionist. I think this is pretty accurate.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783
"I have one word for you...predator drones. Oh, you think I'm kidding?" Obombya
Yes, very disappointed with
Yes, very disappointed with the bulk of the eligible Iowa voters. It presents a poor image for their state.
Especially those voting for the unethical corrupt narcissistic K Street bedfellow Santorum, who advocates such extremist maniac lunacy as preemptive warfare, nuclear first strikes, support of martial law and suspension of Constitutional protections, powerful central authoritarian government, policies yielding mass genocide, and many more dangerous extremist policies. Those are the identical doctrines of prior political maniacs before him like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
Perhaps it is arguably just for those individuals to suffer the consequences of their own choice, but unfortunately their ignorance or heinous choices affect many others who certainly do not deserve to such.
Kudos, however to the awesome Iowa Liberty Warriors who came out to the Caucuses to stand up for freedom and speak out.
Let it not be said that we did nothing.-Ron Paul
Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.-Sophia Magdalena Scholl
Iowa Tea Party Republicans
Iowa Republicans slapped Pennsylvania Republicans in the face lastnight. We hate that man and Specter so badly that we handed Santorum the worst defeat in the history of Pennsylvania politics, and sent Arlen Specter fleeing into the arms of the Democratic party to protect him. Pennsylvania Republicans put alot of effort into the "Fire Santorum!" and Operation Pa. Clean Sweep campaign. We fired him and now, less than one US Senate term later, Iowa undermines us and promotes him for higher office. Thanks Iowa!
Am I to understand that 30% of self described "Iowa Tea Party'ers" voted for him? Y'all are a real patriotic bunch lemme tell ya. Lemmings!
You need to send this to editorials and get on radio shows
I was unaware of the effort that was put in to the "Fire Santorum!" campaign, or that there even was one. I thought he was just another run of the mill propped up two bit neocon. I had no idea there was such backlash against him in his own state and party and that iowan santorum voters basically betrayed you guys by bringing the creep back into the spot light. Spread that far and wide!
PaCleanSweep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Diamond#PACleanSweep
"Fire em all" and "throw the bums out" were battle cries for the grassroots movement PaCleanSweep. The effort was to throw the bums out of Harrisburg. It was easier to hitch US Congress and US Senate candidates along with it, than tediously explain to the voters of Pa. the difference between state and federal offices. Fire em all! Throw all the bums out!
Pennsylvanians did the impossible in 2006 - some 18 months before our tea party day and a full 4 years before the 2010 nationwide tea party revolution.
One word: Education
There is no short-cut to waking folks up. It is a tedious process of educating them, usually one-on-one. It actually could be called 'evangelism' but that would backfire, I know!
Yes, it's a combination of
Yes, it's a combination of ignorance, apathy and their unwavering loyalty to the Republican Party (and its pundits) that we have to break through.
very well done
i love this posting!
Iowa
Well either there was voter fraud going on or a large percentage of Iowan's are extremely ignorant. We are suppose to believe that Santorum won Iowa by going around and telling people that under the Constitution they don't have the right to privacy? That the Constitution was misinterpreted in regards to privacy. What was up with the several counties that CNN reported that there wasn't a single RP vote? Those same counties had hundreds of votes for "other" and "no preference" - I call bulls**t!
The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it-Andrew Jackson
Voice your complaints, go right to the source.
I live in Iowa. Here is a sampling of the emails, that were sent out to the 1000s on christian church mailing lists. These are not actually Christian people, but habitual and devious liars.
"To My Ron Paul Friends:
I have been thinking. I feel compelled to send this last email before the Caucus tonight.
Ron Paul has made it clear that he thinks legislation against abortion is a state issue.* So, this means that some states would inevitably allow it and others would not. This means it would be illegal to kill an unborn baby in one state, but legal in another state — it is the states’ choice. How is this different from the pro-choice person who says: “I am personally against abortion, but I believe it is a woman’s choice?” It is just putting the issue into a collective context instead of a personal context. That is the only difference. It is still a pro-choice position. I don’t see any way around it, no matter how you slice it, no matter how many babies he has delivered, no matter how “personally opposed” to abortion he is — Ron Paul is pro-choice.
His argument that the Constitution does not authorize federal protection of life is absurd and ignores the very foundation of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence. It is the role of Federal Government first and foremost to secure the unalienable rights granted by the Creator: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I appeal to my friends who are Ron Paul supporters, on the abortion issue alone, please do not support this man. His logic is "twisted" on this issue.
Sincerely,
Brad Sherman"
Here is Brads email, I'm sure he would love to here from you sherm@getpurpose.org
Another one, in regards to a letter sent to him admonishing him to support Ron Paul.
Ron Paul Supporter,
>
> I think the man who wrote this letter has no business
> calling other people’s
> integrity into question because he did not handle himself
> with any dignity
> over the past week. Ron Paul should have refused him until
> after the Caucus
> – if Ron Paul had integrity.
>
> Ron Paul is a rebellious Christian leading a rebellious
> movement that
> displeases the Holy Spirit. He is a rabid secularist who
> refuses to admit
> that homosex is a sin.
>
> I am ashamed of him, and I am saddened that so many of my
> friends have been
> tricked into following his piping sounds of false liberty.
> There is NO
> liberty outside of Jesus Christ.
>
> I respectfully ask that you carefully review my article and
> exploit the
> hyperlinks within the article that I provide. One of me
> speaking by video
> and the other a recording Ron Paul – the rebellious
> sinner.
>
> http://www.peacemakersinstitute.com/institute/?p=1324
>
> No one who advocates Ron Paul has any business
> pontificating on family or
> moral values. No one. He does NOT believe in family and has
> NO COURAGE. I
> saw him on Leno mocking Christian values. Making jokes
> about our belief that
> homosex is wicked sin. He is amoral and dangerous.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Pastor Cary Gordon
This man alone, was responsible for thousands of lost Ron Paul votes. Here is email - revcg@peacemakersinstitute.com
Sorry, I believe it was ignorance...
... from experience, I know that Christians tend to vote for who they are told is a "good Christian".
Well this is obvious, at
Well this is obvious, at least for me. EVERY time the media introduce Mitt, he is preceded by words like "front-runner", "confident", "favorite", "leading", or "most electable", EVERY time they introduce Ron Paul, he is preceded by words such as "Out of the main stream", "cranky", "crazy", "unelectable", "left wing looney", or "pro-heroin". The fact that Paul nearly tied Mitt is remarkable and says so much for our persistence!
You forgot some
You forgot "radical", "insurgent" and "extremist" ;)
this is how CNN gave Iowa to
this is how CNN gave Iowa to Santorum with 27 vote only..
check this out
http://www.dailypaul.com/199646/how-cnn-gave-iowa-to-santoru...
Solution over which the grassroots has strained... is simple!
This has been the problem for which the RP grassroots has struggled to find their solution. Yet it stares them in the face. To some degree it was carried out in Iowa, but the media, except for a couple articles, has not focused upon it. It can happen in every caucus state!
The solution is, the ability to take the delegate slots with pure dedication to principle:
- first to work hard and show up, when others are feeding on whipped cream and last only for the short haul;
- then, to stand in the caucus for sound principles of a constitutional republic, the friendship of the founders, and biblical or Austrian economics which does not steal from the people. It is to stand up in the caucus for a nation of individuals with the light of liberty and individual noble character, and not for a nation of aggrandized people, thinking themselves individually great because of their nations size and power, and thus infused with the slogan that 'might makes right!'
By this representation in the caucus setting, the average caucus goers will come to see the need for such delegates, they will more likely vote for that person as delegate... why? Because the rest cannot stand and speak to the issues which burden the masses, but fall flat on the hollowness and shallowness of unconstitutional, globalist, Neocon untruths!
The delegates for the party, for the Neocon thinking, are few and far between, and they struggle to repeat the empty slogans of their blindly followed candidate! As such, Ron Paul should walk away with delegates in every state which chooses by caucus!
That is also the reason primaries, and the touting of these caucus entry straw polls, are the means of choice for mass media control, which favors the Neocon globalist thinking... mobs need not, and do not, think!
The caucus, like a Congress forced to declare war and name an enemy over which they will lay down the possibility of defeat for their homes, families and land, will hesitate, balk, shift, eventually be forced to accept responsibility. An unwatched and unchecked congress, just like the caucus, if given the choice, violates their oaths rather than stand for truth, friendship, and peace, over war for which they will be liable!
It is for that reason Ron Paul delegates should stand in the gap, and thus standing, both prevent caucus from shirking their duty, as well as be elected delegates by those caucuses!
Remember Mike Huckabee?
He won Iowa in 2008 with 34% of the vote, beating Mitt by 9 points. The momentum carried him to victories in 6 other states (WV, AL, AR, GA, KS, TN), all very socially conservative states.
In this context it should be no great surprise that Santorum did so well yesterday, since his total focus is on social conservative issues like gay marriage, etc.
It also should be noted that these issues got Huck only so far as he was out of the race a couple months later, mainly due to running out of cash. Dr. Paul was able to continue his campaign because his supporters kept funding it till the end.
Let's keep yesterday's (and tomorrow's) results in perspective. There's a long road ahead.
I'm not sure how this will
I'm not sure how this will play out either. I haven't listened to the media spin of the results yet, and probably won't this time around.
There are a lot of big questions about what's going to happen in SC and Florida. Only time will tell. Our results there will give us a big indication as to what's going to happen going forward.
The Shepherd Smith Fox
The Shepherd Smith Fox interview with Rand right before the Caucus began did not help.
Heroin, cocaine, heroin, cocaine.
Rinse and repeat.
Truly sickening
I actually loved Rand during
I actually loved Rand during that interview ;)
Rand did a great job
But imagine the less able of mind hearing a guy they may trust (Smith) continuously saying "Heroin and cocaine legalized?"
It almost doesn't matter what Rand says, the picture has been framed for a percentage of voters. Look how close the result was. All you need is a small percentage of fence-sitters...
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Freedom - Peace - Prosperity
Yeah I get that. It's just
Yeah I get that. It's just like the newsletter non-sense. It doesn't matter what Ron says to that either.
On the bright side, the establishment can't seriously keep bringing this crap up now. It has to be over with. They tried, and it didn't work out as well as they thought it would.
Exactly...that small
Exactly...that small percentage might have made all the difference.
I did too...I just felt like
I did too...I just felt like the word had been handed down to Shep to really play the drug card to give the evangelicals a push away from Ron.
I mean how many times did he say "legalize heroin and cocaine"? 10 times??
Rand did great.
Iowans are old main stream media people - average age of 60
Iowan's who caucus average in age of 60 according to this article. Iowans average age 60
Old people are easily mislead by main stream media because they've been trusting of it their whole lives.
So instead of trashing Iowans today
and wasting time blaming the world's problems on something that CANNOT be changed, how about we all work what CAN be changed.
What state do you live in? How can we help? Have you gone door to door to discuss issues with the people in your county? What concerns do they have? What would be the number one issue in the area that you live? How can we get the message across to those voters best?
Instead of being sore losers, and spending all day typing about how mad this makes us, let's be proactive and concentrate on what we can do.
The Iowa GOP threatened their caucus
They wanted to be relevent, so they voted for the establishment because they believed the Iowa GOP would make their caucus irrelevent if Ron Paul won. The Iowa GOP scared them pretty good I guess.
Real eyes realize real lies
2012, we want our country back
2012 is the year for Ron Paul!
It doesn't speak well for the
It doesn't speak well for the intelligence and character of these voters if that worked on them...
I know
I'm just pissed. How can Santorum rocket to the top virtually coming out of nowhere? Obama did the same exact thing. The establishment orchestrated this fiasco and fooled the voters again. We have to double and triple our efforts to thwart Santorum's momentum.
Real eyes realize real lies
2012, we want our country back
2012 is the year for Ron Paul!
sanitorum's record, like the grinch...
will do him in
we are in a good position to fight
thats FIGHT!!!
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
Rockin' the FREE world in Tennessee since 1957!
Defeat CORKER! Bailed out the banks. In training to steal more.
Defeat ALEXANDER! Career traitor! Handsomely rich in a poor Nation.
I suspect people within the
I suspect people within the caucus, such as people in Bachmann or Perry's campaign, told their supporters to vote for Santorum in overwhelming numbers. There's probably a strong anti-Paul sentiment, so Bachmann and others wouldn't have had that much explaining to do to get them to "take one for the team".
To a lot of these voters and the people in the party, it is really about "the party". They are collectivists. They are not voting "for" something, they are just voting against something and for the will of the party. Their individual will doesn't matter - it's all about the party.
This time, they are all against Paul. And if Romney were to win, they'll just be against Obama. They are never voting "for" any candidate's principles at any stage of the process. They do not even care what principles Romney has. That is why it doesn't matter if he's a flip-flopper or not to these people.
The Nazis used to talk about "the party" in this fashion, and this talk in GOP inner-circles is no different. It is just collectivist drivel.