[Signalman]

I would like to see RP run as 3rd party. I think he would draw more votes away from Obama than the GOP.

[jpsb]

I’m pretty sure there will be a 3rd party run. The former gov of NJ is headed up a fund raising effort on behave of some TBD candidate. I doubt Paul will run, he is running for the GOP nomination for the same reasons I thought Sara should. To bring issues into the campaign that no one else will. If Paul would just stick to spending and following the Constitution his numbers would go way up. Sara’s issue was crony capitalism and corruption in gov. I think Sara could have won, Paul not so much.

[cookcounty]

"I would like to see RP run as 3rd party. I think he would draw more votes away from Obama than the GOP."

You may be on to something. I never met a Paulie that said he voted for Bush or Dole or Bush 41.

They are mostly stay-at-homers when it comes to November elections, and darn proud of it. I would actually be more worried by a Trump run, though something of the same dynamic would be at work there.

Paul's support is mostly from unregistered negative non-voters whose favorite phrase is "there ain't a dime of difference between 'em."

[freespirited]

I would like to see RP run as 3rd party. I think he would draw more votes away from Obama than the GOP.

FOX posted a poll recently that showed Paul would hand the election to Obama, drawing heavily from the GOP. Might have been a Ras poll, I don't recall with any certainty.

[LostInBayport]

I would like to see RP run as 3rd party. I think he would draw more votes away from Obama than the GOP.

A very interesting point. A savvy GOP (yeah, I know, no such animal) could make great use of a third party Ron Paul run. Point out to the Occupy dimbulbs all of the "right wing" things Obama has done...renewing the Bush tax cuts, keeping Gitmo open, etc....and send a chunk of Zero's already-shrinking base over to the Ron Paul camp. Once they get there and find out that legalizing pot is a Ron Paul campaign plank they'll get the munchies and stay put. Ron Paul could do for the Republican candidate what Ralph Nader did for Bush...draw votes from the demonrat.