Another source has come out saying Ron Paul tinkering with 3rd party run.

[eleganz]

i'd like to see us max out the conference call, are all of you guys serious about a third party run? set the date and get on the call! 11pm for Eastern timers.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

i'd like to see us max out the conference call, are all of you guys serious about a third party run? set the date and get on the call! 11pm for Eastern timers.

You didn't really ask that, right? That was /sarcasm or /jk

 

[eleganz]

You didn't really ask that, right? That was /sarcasm

honestly...I doubt a lot of the so called passion of many who call themselves grassroots supporters. but thats just me.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

honestly...I doubt a lot of the so called passion of many who call themselves grassroots supporters. but thats just me.

Ah, ignore the trolls, I haven't seen any RP supporters that would say "nah, let's skip this one".

 

[Sentinelrv]

If this happens, I think all the money bomb organizers from the primary season should get together and figure out what to do. That would be me, Dusman, Orenbus, Nathanielyao and a bunch of others. We'd all need to work together to fast track this to get Ron the money he needs to launch his run.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

If this happens, I think all the money bomb organizers from the primary season should get together and figure out what to do. That would be me, Dusman, Orenbus, Nathanielyao and a bunch of others. We'd all need to work together to fast track this to get Ron the money he needs to launch his run.

There's also the $31m (matching funds or whatever, sailingaway talked about it) that he would get.

 

[eleganz]

If this happens, I think all the money bomb organizers from the primary season should get together and figure out what to do. That would be me, Dusman, Orenbus, Nathanielyao and a bunch of others. We'd all need to work together to fast track this to get Ron the money he needs to launch his run.

YESSSSSSS

 

[Sentinelrv]

There's also the $31m (matching funds or whatever, sailingaway talked about it) that he would get.

Remember also though that everything has been reset. People would be able to give everything they have again ($2,500). Since we only have 2 months, it would have to be one huge Mega Money Bomb, no spreading out funds like we did in the primary season. Give it all at once!

 

[The Gold Standard]

If he were to do this I bet we could have a $15-20 million money bomb. Add that to the matching funds and he could flood the airwaves with truth telling.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

I've been against this from the start... but my god it would be amazing if he did it. Id support him every step of the way.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

I've been against this from the start... but my god it would be amazing if he did it. Id support him every step of the way.

In the opinion of this chair, the "Ayes" have it

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I hope he does. He's got nothing to lose, and the RNC robbed the nomination from him.

 

[No1butPaul]

can we please attack r$ this time?

 

[Sentinelrv]

If this happens, I think all the money bomb organizers from the primary season should get together and figure out what to do. That would be me, Dusman, Orenbus, Nathanielyao and a bunch of others. We'd all need to work together to fast track this to get Ron the money he needs to launch his run.

I have just contacted many of the money bomb organizers through email. We need to be ready before he announces, not after. Time is just too short to waste. If it happens, we need to be ready.

 

[Pauls' Revere]

I have just contacted many of the money bomb organizers through email. We need to be ready before he announces, not after. Time is just too short to waste. If it happens, we need to be ready.

Great thinking. Be on standby, ready at the push of button. I hope he does annouce.

 

[TheTexan]

This would be glorious. GLORIOUS.

 

[economics102]

Part of why I was against this originally is because it would be a total 180 from the strategy we've focused on over the past four years of trying to gain influence in the party.

In America's political system, the two big parties have to work to assimilate and placate the smaller factions they want in their tent. The two parties compete for those factions.

The GOP hasn't done that. Neither have the Democrats. But our ideology overlaps much more with the "conservative base" the GOP does court. So when we move in our own direction, the GOP is hurt more than the Democrats, and the GOP is already not in a good position because a lot of Americans are plain fed up with them. So the GOP is the party that really NEEDS to assimilate us to survive.

I don't think the dream of overthrowing the two-party duopoly is realistic. But what I'm thinking now is, the Republican Party has tempted fate, it has practically dared us to turn our backs on them.

If we can achieve credit for costing Romney the election (or at least being one of the major factors in that outcome), it will, politically, force the GOP to usher us back into the party tent, this time with a much louder voice.

ESPECIALLY if we craft our message not as extreme libertarian, but as "believable conservatism." If our chief complaint is basically, "we're libertarians, if the GOP was actually conservative we would coalesce with them since that's a good compromise, but since they aren't even conservative and are instead just as liberal/authoritarian as the Democrats, we part ways."

But the key is, it needs to be painfully obvious that we dealt a major body blow to the GOP come November. The people we're trying to get the attention of are not the GOP's leaders, who would rather lose an election than risk giving voice to our message, but rather the party regulars who at a certain point will start pressuring the establishment leaders when they can't understand how the pros of ostracizing us outweigh the cons of losing such a valuable constituency. That's why the establishment will focus their efforts on making sure our role in the outcome is not widely understood. We have to make sure EVERYBODY knows that the GOP's failure to embrace Ron Paul was an insurmountable handicap to Romney in the general election.

I also question Rand Paul's strategy of trying to reverse the GOP's co-opting of the Tea Party. The "liberty movement" is a brand that we control far more handily than the more amorphous Tea Party. Let the Tea Party do it's thing. We may not be as large a movement as the Tea Party, but if we can remain what we are, we'll be one of the only political movements in modern history to successfully resist being co-opted by insincere sheep herders (politicians).

 

[Karsten]

This would be glorious. GLORIOUS.

The ayes have it

 

[idiom]

A new money bomb would be for the General. It would open up new sources plus reset everybodies donation counters.

 

[libertariantexas]

If Dr. Paul runs third party, I'll vote for him.

But I think this is about as likely as the sun rising in the West tomorrow.

The election is 2 months away.

There is no time to be cobbling together some sort of "third party" run. If he was going to do that, he would have needed to start months ago.