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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Romney should promise him the job as Secretary of Government Motors if he flushes this goofy idea.
Some info on jurisdictions, parties, ballot access, etc.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G12/President-Details.phtml
After reading what the party insiders did in Florida, they'd likely have better luck juggling chain saws.
His son Rand had better set up a professional intervention for dear old dad and help get his mind right or Rand’s own career won’t be worth a plugged nickle.
The Tonight Show is Pre recorded and done days in advanced Folks.
Run Paul Run!
He’s a loonie leftist liberal. He’ll only take votes away from Hussein.
I agree.
It’s nice to have social-scientific confirmation of one’s intuitively-held opinions:
The Paul supporters I know all seem much more likely to tilt to Obama than Romney in a two-way race. I suspect a Paul 3rd party run would put a few “blue” states where Romney otherwise would stand no chance in play — I’m thinking of Oregon, specifically.
I don't think so.
No, no, no, and continued no.
Stay out of it Ron Paul — sore loser?
Agreed. It is the abandonment of integrity and principle that is the last straw. They wanted to have the candidate pick the delegates rather than delegates pick the candidate! Such jackassery.
Good for him.. I think he will pull MANY more Libs (goes for both Libertarian AND Liberal) than Conservatives ;^)
If that loon does this, he would only be doing it as a spoiler or for money.
In my book, that would make him a traitor.
No worries with me, mate ;^)
I would vote for Romney before Obama or Paul...
It is no different than Virgil Goode and his supporters in VA.
You’ll get no argument from me.
Recorded same day, I believe about 4 or 5ish in the afternoon. If anything big happened we would already know.
There are a lot of Virgil Goode supporters on FreeRepublic, I didn’t know if you were one of them.
At this point, anyone who is against Romney is against the country. Obama is the enemy.
Guess you few beat me to the punch... I said pretty much the same thing.. LET him run 3rd party.. all the better for us ;^)
It will make the Democraps feel what we felt with Perot.
“Or you could be completely wrong.”
If you believe that, you are as full of the brown stuff as Paul is...
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