Ron Paul Launches Presidential Campaign (Drudge: He's In!)

National Journal ^

[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.

[OldNewYork]

Thanks for the link - that was worth watching. Well-spoken, a good son, diplomatic about Trump while still getting his point across: he’d be a good president. Glad he’s going to be in the electoral discussion still. I think age is in his favor in regards to his father too.

[hinckley buzzard]

Even the 911 commission found blowback was an issue.

And we know how credible they were.

[hinckley buzzard]

The worst mistake Palin could make would be to announce too soon. Next Winter is plenty of time.

[Eaker]

I just received this via FReepmail:

Ron Paul 2012 Starts Now!
From GuidoFawkes1776 | 04/26/2011 6:33:47 PM PDT replied

http://www.ronpaulSUX2012.com/ (I added the SUX)

This is why you paulbots will never win. Conservatives don't like liberal tactics like this. This sort of crap puts me off more than anything y'all can do to try to make me vote for him.

[newzjunkey]

He represents an opportunity to break from the status quo but that doesn't always work out. Isn't that what Obama was? Or Schwarzenegger in CA?

I don't believe Ron Paul is the change we're looking for.

[TribalPrincess2U]

And Ron Paul Supports Ground Zero Mosque; ‘You’re Closing The Door On What Makes America -per BB

I say this SOB has lost before he begins.

[Theodore R.]

He did not run for the House in 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, or 1994 but has since 1996.

[Theodore R.]

Next Winter is plenty of time.

Wouldn't that be after the filing deadlines for the early primaries?

[Theodore R.]

I think Paul fared poorly in his 2008 debates with the other primary candidates. He blew an opportunity. I think Palin fared poorly in her appearance with Biden. She too blew opportunities to score.

[Allegra]

His endorsement of Adam Kokesh is one of a number of individual things that alone should disqualify him.

He has also endorsed Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr and some other weirdos.

[Semper Mark]

From your profile page:

"It is time to leave American Now!"

Yeah, well, shut up and let the real men fight the fight.

If you're going to cut and run like a pansy ass surrender monkey, then keep your nose out of our business. You have absolutely no say so about what goes on here.

Have fun in Hoduras, coward.

[Semper Mark]

LeaveAmericaNow:

I detect a fowl odor emanating from you...

It must be from the feathers of a defeatist.

[Sarabaracuda]

You lie!

[Sarabaracuda]

Maybe because Sarah realizes there are too many here to simply kick out. The problem is more complicated than you make out.

[LeaveAmericaNow]

“Have fun in Hoduras, coward.”

Have fun serving Satan by repeating your empty false conservative cliches while frothing your Marxist globalist Antichrist UN agenda servant of Satan, then the blackness of darkness forever you will go where you belong. Pathetic depraved wicked demon possessed psycho, genocidal abortion funding blood lust dog. Everything I warned on my page will happen to you, I guarantee it you demon possessed dog.

[LeaveAmericaNow]

“run like a pansy ass surrender monkey”

Good thing your European ancestors didn’t listen to demon possessed genocidal whores of Satan saying the same thing in their day when they left the cursed reprobate nations of Europe that they were enslaved in. Dog of hell hypocrite.

[Uncle Ivan]

Your padded room is ready, sir.

[John D]

Are you replying to cut and run paul?

[Semper Mark]

Oooo! I must have struck a nerve.

"Pathetic depraved wicked demon possessed psycho,..."

I'm all of the above...except for "demon possessed".

I'm mean enough without 'em.

[Semper Mark]

"Good thing your European ancestors didn’t listen to demon possessed genocidal whores of Satan saying the same thing in their day when they left the cursed reprobate nations of Europe that they were enslaved in."

Well, you have a point there. My ancestors did give their blood in the formation this country, so I'll be damned if I'm going spit on their memory by giving up as easy as you have.

But what does that have to do with what we're talking about?

I'm talking about you in the here and now, you cut and run surrender monkey.

"Dog of hell hypocrite."

You're so dramatic.