[PhilCollins]

Not enough people know about John Cox's presidential campaign, although he declared in March 2006. He was the first candidate to support a national sales tax. He's pro-life. He wants immigration officials to fine more employers who hire illegal aliens and to deport as many illegals as possible, as quickly as possible.

In April, he won a straw poll in a South Carolina county and won second place in another county's straw poll. His campaign website is www.cox2008.com.

[chopperman]

I think because both Republican and Democratic contests are so crowded and the fact that most of the primaries will be on the same day, nobody will get either a majority or momentum and each party’s pick will actually be chosen at its convention in smoke filled rooms like the old days.

[MSF BU]

As a young man Ronald Reagan thought it was so important to serve in the military that he concealed his faulty vision to be commissioned as an officer in the US Army. John, since your the real Reagan-type candidate, tell us about your military service...

[SittinYonder]

He was the first candidate to support a national sales tax. He's pro-life. He wants immigration officials to fine more employers who hire illegal aliens and to deport as many illegals as possible, as quickly as possible.

I'm already supporting a lost-cause candidate ... Tom Tancredo. The problem is, there's too many lost-cause candidates (far better than any of the media's choices) for a good grassroots movement to drive any of them to the top.

Sadly, most of the lost-cause candidates are virtually identical on the important issues. Tancredo, Huckabee, Hunter and Cox all support the FairTax. Tancredo and Hunter and Gilmore are pretty close on borders and illegal immigration.

They'll all use the fool out of torture if three shopping malls have been attacked and someone with information on a fourth attack is caught off the coast of Florida!

[jmyrlefuller]

This guy has never held a national or even a state office. His only experience is that he has run for Congress twice and lost both times, not even making it past the primary.

The pinnacle of his political career was being the GOP chair for Cook County (Chicagoland). He’s never held an executive or legislative office; all he is is a political hack. He’s never been elected in a general election as far as I can see for anything. That’s why he’s being ignored.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So this guy couldn't have ran for Governor of IL or challenged Obama for the Senate in 2004?

I mean, a private citizen banking on a Presidential bid. I think I'll declare an exploratory committee, for heaven's sakes.

[thepoliticalguy]

This is ridiculous. John Cox has become a joke. He has zero chance of winning, and doing well in a couple of tiny straw polls in some obscure South Carolina towns don't cancel out the fact that he can't score even one percent in the real polls that can't be manipulated by political operatives.

He also made a fool out of himself by sneaking into the Reagan Library debate "spin room" and getting escorted from the property by security.

This man is no Reagan, he's a joke. We have ten other potential Reagans already. We don't need to be dealing with fringe candidates like this.

[Dengar01]

If my memory serves me right he ran against Turbin Durbin for Senate and lost the Republican Primary in Illinois.

I think he just enjoys the media spotlight. Even though there is none, lol.