Posted on 04/26/2011 4:22:54 AM PDT by quesney
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, whose outspoken libertarian views and folksy style made him a cult hero during two previous presidential campaigns, will announce on Tuesday that he's going to try a third time.
Sources close to Paul, who is in his 12th term in the House, said he will unveil an exploratory presidential committee, a key step in gearing up for a White House race. He will also unveil the campaign’s leadership team in Iowa, where the first votes of the presidential election will be cast in caucuses next year.
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Paul, 75, ran as the Libertarian Party candidate in 1988, finishing with less than one half a percent of the vote. After more than a decade as a Republican congressman,
Paul gave it another shot in the 2008 presidential election, gaining attention for being the only Republican candidate calling for the end to the war in Iraq and for his “money bomb” fundraising strategy, which brought in millions of dollars from online donors in single-day pushes.
Paul took 10 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and 8 percent in New Hampshire’s primary. He finished second, with 14 percent of the vote, in the Nevada caucuses, and eventually finished fourth in the Republican nominating process with 5.6 percent of the total vote. Paul’s campaign book, The Revolution: A Manifesto also reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list in 2008.
This would seem to be an ideal year for Paul: Since the last election, the Republican Party has moved much closer to his view on deficit reduction, which made him an early tea party favorite. All of the party's top-tier presidential hopefuls are focusing on lowering debt, government spending, and tax rates, issues Paul has long advocated.
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and that is about as far as he will get
Up next on Fox News.
Ugh.
The one big advantage when Paul, Trump, and Bachmann are in the race is that it sets the tempo for the rest of the campaign and other candidates. Look what happened in 2008 when McLame, Mitt, and Huckabee were the dominate candidates. Neither of these candidates stood for anything nor gave a compelling reason to vote for them.
Now, all candidates will have to stand and deliver. Lastly, the country is in worst shape now than it was 3 years ago. We need real leadership and vision, not dry talking points and TV morning show appearances.
I’m glad he’s running. I will vote for him.
I believe he has polled better than other likely candidates against Obama. I think I remember Rassmussen had him at 41% to Obama 42% - and that was a little while ago. Since that time the inflation has really ramped up. I think he might poll even higher now.
We need people like this to smack that boy silly during the debates
Oh goodie, another whiny old man running for President .... Again. ..... I’m so excited.
That he respects the Constitution and hates the Federal Reserve, I like.... Too bad he is a loon on just about everything else.
The Eugene Debs of the right, minus the prison time....so far.
One of my daughter’s friends who was an Obama voter has flipped to a Libertarian Ron Paul supporter. What the heck is up with that.
Anyway, a bunch of the young crowd is getting Pumped for Paul.
The biggest disclaimer I can find is his rhetoric too often seems contrary to his vote in Congress.He talks a good talk— and his minions are energized -but where it matters most -his voting record too often does not reflect the racehorse.
He beleives that the US causes Islamic terrorism. Do you agree with that?
Is he the one that claimed Dick Chaney was seen parachuting over Manhattan just seconds before one of the planes hit the Twin Towers?
Such as?
He just keeps on being proven right. Maybe he is.
Forgot your sarc tag?
Like Bowbama, Paul thinks all of the trouble in the world is our (USA) fault! He might be good on his domestic agenda, but he would be a disaster in the foreign realm!
“Can’t say I agree with him on much of his platform, but he represents a real choice and a real opportunity at a break from the status quo that has utterly failed us as a country. “
This applied to Obama too. It is embarrassing to see this no hope anti-semitic lunatic in GOP primaries with all his 16 fanatical supporters who vote 6,000 times in every online poll and behave just like dailykos kids and union thugs.
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