Not again!
Posted on 09/04/2012 7:42:04 PM PDT by RightGeek
Speculation is mounting that Texas Rep. Ron Paul will mount a third party bid for the presidency as pressure from his supporters builds ahead of his appearance Tuesday night on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
According to a report, Paul’s supporters were deeply upset by how the libertarian Texas Representative was treated at the Republican National Convention last week. 300 of them joined in a conference call on Sunday night planning to urge Paul to launch a last-minute independent bid for the White House.
In order for Paul to appear on the ballot in all 50 states, he would have to join the Libertarian party’s ticket — either as former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s running mate or as his replacement. The party’s present vice presidential nominee, Jim Gray, would have to drop out of the race.
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Rush was warning the ‘Stupid’ party this might happen ... sheesh ...
what a loser
Well, that should sound the death knell for EternalVigilance...
With Goode on the ballot in Virginia and now this. Can we say 4 more years of Obama? These people are more interested in themselves than the country.
The GOPe should have known that not everyone would get back on the plantation after they bought the election.
Ron Paul is certifiable.
But we really knew these peeps (Occupy) were already for him. This was all planned. Nancy embraced it......to split the ticket.
Ron Paul ~ Ross Perot ... Hmmmm
More than likely have the same effect.
Uhhm, can he even get on the ballot at this point? I was under the impression that several states were starting early voting in a couple week, so the ballots have already been printed.
I can only appeal to the sane ones- but the other couple dozen are only hurting themselves.
Ron Paul has some legitimate issues- Romney has already called for an audit of the Fed, IIRC.
Nothing left amounts to a hill of beans in the current landscape, IMHO.
I am a libertarian.
Ron Paul would help usher in another four years of obama because he couldn’t get votes to win the pub nomination.
no excuse for a sorry loser. i remember ross perot, who gave us 8 years of the clintoon.
sorry. if paul wants to give us four more years of obama so he can prove himself to be as big of a narcissist as barry, then i have no respect for him.
blessings, bobo
This is how we lose an election we should’ve won. Enjoy the gruel. No, those are not raisins.
Quite honestly I think Ron Paul might take more votes from Obama than Romney...
I highly doubt it, but it would be excellent if Paul ran 3rd party. Paultards never had any intention of voting for the Republican nominee no matter who it was. They are not Republicans or conservatives and they hated all of our primary candidates other than their loopy leader. Most of the paulbots I knew in 2008 ended up voting for Obama or Libertarian - and they are going to do the same thing this time around. If Paul runs 3rd party, he will take far more votes from Obama than he will Romney.
A great many of the Paul folks, in this area are either not registered to vote, at all, or not registered as Republicans.
No, a Ron Paul run would not be a good thing, but I think most of his followers would not go for Romney, anyway.
Also?
Rand Paul is finished, for any VP or Presidential bid, ever, if Ron Paul does this.
Goode didn’t run in the GOP primary did he? If he didn’t pretend to be a Republican then I have no problem with him running. Paul ran in the GOP primary, aren’t there states that won’t allow him to run in the primary on another ticket?
Was thinking the same thing.
I didn’t realized he was that interested in seeing 4 more years of Obama. guess I was wrong.
Why Jay Leno? Why doesn’t the creep just go down to Charlotte and announce there. I know the communists will give him all the time he wants.
He will get eight votes. People have no time for this &$*&-+$ nonsense this election.
I guess I’ll take my ball and go home.....what a putz!!!! And his followers are immature little crybabies!
Or you could be completely wrong.
That is why I don't believe this will happen.
Do you have any sources to back up that claim?
I wondered if this was in the offing if Romney appeared poised to win or make it close.
This is it for Ron Paul anyway, the end of his “career”
There is no way crazy Ron Paul gets 19% of the vote like Perot did in 1992.
There was something anti-stablishment appealing to people about Ross Perot.
Ron Paul is just batsh*t nuts, as are most of his supporters, and that will quickly become obvious to even the most clueless “undecided” voters.
Romney Ryan still win this one.
I don’t think Paul will run Libertarian. It would doom Rand to the lunatic fringe after he gets booted from the R party. Not booted by the party but by conservatives blaming him, unfairly but correctly, for Paul getting obomo re-elected just as Perot got Clinton elected.
He would. Not sure why people worry so much about this. Go to any Ron Paul forum. These people are not Republicans and they are not conservatives. In fact, they HATE social conservatives as much as they hate a country clubber like Romney. Paultards are simply libertarians who have realized 3rd party campaigns don’t work, so they are trying to take over the GOP. The Democrats had the LaRouchies to put up with, we’ve got the paulbots. If Paul ran 3rd party, he’d take FAR more votes from Obama than he would Romney. Go away paultards!
I think it’s too late. To be placed on ballots each state has file deadlines that must be met. I believe those deadlines have passed, although I have not investigated (yet).
I just hope he doesn’t turn out to be the Ralph Nader of 2012. The country needs desperately to be rid of Obama.
Minor problem, I don't think Johnson is running because the Pubbies dissed him. Or maybe Hussein and Biteme would drop out, and Paul could run as a 'rat. Yeah, that would work! And there's still time!
Wouldn’t be a surprise, the lefty bastard doesn’t have an interest in anything but himself. Just like the one
It will take weeks to clean up the ejaculate in the streets of Charlotte if Ron Paul announces a Third Party Bid for the presidency. The Democrats will be ecstatic. Obama will be a shoe in.
He doesn't need to. If he runs, I have a gut feeling he'll push hard in a few swing states (like Goode is in Virginia) where just a 1%-2% swing could push it to 0.
i think that’s a possibility, or at least as many votes from obama as he takes from romney....he appeals as much to the far left howard dean type of voter as he does the paleo conservative...
also- what are the restrictions for getting on ballots at this point in time???
As if the entrenched insider Republicans and Democrats are not.
Having been rejected from the party in one primary, can he jump into another party’s ballot that has already had their nomination process conclude?
You can’t vote in one primary and then sign a petition to get someone on the ballot in another party.
Rand Paul will be the loser and I don’t think that Ron wants to destroy his political career. We will see but I think that Ron knows its a young mans game and he is loyal to his son.
A 3rd party bid from the right is Obama’s only hope but Ron Paul has to know this will bury his son.
The OWS Paulians would vote for a continuation of Pelosi/Reid's culture of corruption in Congress.
Rand Paul is finished, for any VP or Presidential bid, ever, if Ron Paul does this.
That would be a good thing. He can’t do much damage in the senate, but he’s just as nutty as the old man. The Paul brand needs to go away
to be funded by 169 Soros- financed front groups....
Hasn’t the Tonight Show already finished taping?
Why would this news be “embargoed” when Paulians support the Wikileaker as a “whistleblower”?
Republican idiots at the convention brought this on by their own stupid actions.
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