[cake_crumb]

But isn’t Ron Paul a RINO? He left the libertarian party to join one he professes to disdain. He’s still a libertarian, even if he changed his affilation to Republican.

[xrp]

But isn’t Ron Paul a RINO? He left the libertarian party to join one he professes to disdain. He’s still a libertarian, even if he changed his affilation to Republican.

I think you're wrong there chief. Ron Paul has never been a member of the Libertarian Party.

[rineaux]

***But isn’t Ron Paul a RINO? He left the libertarian party to join one he professes to disdain. He’s still a libertarian, even if he changed his affilation to Republican.***

He was a republican first. He felt his only opportunity was to run on the libertarian ticket, went back to the republican party. But you write it makes him a libertarian.

One of the greatest presidents (as you well know) was a democrat in his early life, changed to a republican, ran as a republican and was elected. With the logic you wrote, guess that would have made him a democrat, correct? Or does the logic
only apply to RP.

BTW, the democrat who turned republican also embraced some libertarian views. If that matters to you.

[rob777]

"He left the libertarian party to join one he professes to disdain. He’s still a libertarian, even if he changed his affilation to Republican."


As has already been pointed out on this thread, he has always been a Republican. He ran once on the Libertarian ticket in 1988 because he was not very impressed with Bush as Reagan's successor.