I haven't really been following this issue but Ron is smart. He knows what he is doing. Maybe he was saying to the establishment, "Look I am in third place. I am a legitimate contender. And if you don't start paying me some respect..."
Maybe we should use the press interest on this issue to talk about the other pressing issues. Something like, "You can talk about this issue but the most important issue confronting America is not whether Ron Paul will run third party it is the potential sovereign debt crisis, the dollar collapse, and how we are going to handle it. Ron Paul, Republican or not, is the only one that understands this issue and can guide us out of the financial nightmare that we are now in. He has studied the monetary issue and is an expert. There is no bigger issue not even the issue of national defense because with a shattered dollar all bets are off. You in the press didn't listen to Ron Paul in 2007 when he was warning of this and quite frankly I hold all of you partially responsible for our present situation. If you had given him the respect he deserved and debated his ideas instead of scoffing at him...Apparently you didn't learn your lesson."