I won’t be surprised if he goes third-party. He was probably sincere about not wanting to do it originally, but he’s been raising crazy money, getting rock-star adulation, and become the darling of the drive-by media because he bashes President Bush and he’s always good for a kooky out-of-context sound bite.
Why wouldn’t he want to keep the ball rolling? He looks out there right now and sees what looks like pretty solid support, better than anything he saw when running on the LP ticket many years ago. He can’t win, but he can sure get out there and push his agenda—and now, he’s probably got money that any other third-party candidate would only dream of.
The question is, who’s he going to have the bigger impact on? Will he pull the radical anti-war vote away from Hillary! or Osama, or will he pull the paleo/libertarian vote away from the Republican nominee? Or both?
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I am not sure whom he will take more of the vote from, but I do think that in a head-to-head against any of the main GOP nominees, HRC loses...unless there is a third-party candidate. So, R. Paul is a wild card we don’t need, in my view.