Ron Paul says he won't run as third-party candidate

[LiveFreeorDie]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/5527784.html

Thoughts?

 

[The Tao Of Bill]

Yeah. He's been saying this for months. Where have you been?

 

[fortilite]

This is really really old news.

 

[Hurricane Bruiser]

Well it wasn't until just a few days ago that he truly ruled out running third party.

I think it will help toward reforming the GOP to some extent. The way I see it, McCain will probably end up as GOP nominee and Obama will be the dem nominee. McCain will lose to Obama because conservatives won't turn out for McCain. If Paul was running 3rd party, the GOP loss (presuming Paul lost) would be pinned on him instead of the war mongering policies of McCain and the problem of Republicans acting like Democrats. It also gains him and us in return greater favor within the GOP.

Just my $.02

 

[tbarnett17]

I think he should... even if he doesn't win in a thrid party run, it will show the GOP and the Dems we're serious! Also, do you all even know that there are RP supporters, who WILL vote for Paul, but have NO IDEA there is even a primary/caucus system. They just expect him to be on the ballot in the general? So... maybe he should run thrid party! -Tyler

 

[Mesogen]

Not maybe, he definitely should. Actually, he should not run with a third party. They will sink him worse than his campaign did for these primaries.

He should run independent, get new people to run his campaign, and come out swinging against McCain, Hillary, and Obama. He absolutely MUST challenge Obama on the premise that he's anti-war (he's not.)

Ron Paul keeps talking about the fact that it's all about the message. Well, no one is going to hear the message from him anymore if he doesn't go independent.

 

[Kludge]

I bet $100 that he'd take at least 5% in the G.E., he damn well better run or I'ma be running a ridiculously extravagant write-in campaign.

 

[Mesogen]

I would bet that he'd get more than Ross Perot.

 

[Feelgood]

Glad to see it once and for all. Been saying this for months, people don't listen. Now we just have to deal with the defeatist that want him as a Congressman more then a President. If we can get rid of them now, we will be home free.

 

[Mesogen]

Glad to see it once and for all. Been saying this for months, people don't listen. Now we just have to deal with the defeatist that want him as a Congressman more then a President. If we can get rid of them now, we will be home free.

I'm afraid that the main defeatist here is Ron Paul himself. If he doesn't want to run independent, he's saying that he doesn't want to be president bad enough.

I could be mistaken. Maybe he knows something we all don't.

 

[mkiv808]

It's better this way.

If Obama becomes the DNC choice, there's no way Paul could beat him. No way.

So Paul would be blamed for the Republicans losing, and that would really affect the image of this movement.

 

[The Tao Of Bill]

Glad to see it once and for all. Been saying this for months, people don't listen. Now we just have to deal with the defeatist that want him as a Congressman more then a President. If we can get rid of them now, we will be home free.

Defeatist? Everyone should be a defeatist by now. Even if we win every single primary from here on out with at least 50% of the vote we will not win the nomination. And even if Ron Paul goes third party he will not win. People keep saying this is the time for 3rd party runs. It's really not. I predict this will be the worst year for third party runs. Because democrats aren't going to even consider third parties because they remember the last time they did. In 2000 Gore lost because (among other things) many democrats decided to vote for Ralph Nader. So democrats are going to be very loyal to the party this time around to ensure a republican defeat. And the republicans will not vote third party because they know they are weak right now and they know republicans need all the votes they can get. This will especially be true if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination.

This isn't a defeatist attitude. This is reality. And it's about time we started thinking realistically. It's time to focus our attention on congress and trying to get Ron Paul more allies in the Republican party and trying to get Ron Paul back into his congressional seat. Because if we can't even succeed in getting people in congress there isn't any chance of us succeeding to get someone in the white house.

Ron Paul did his part. He raised our numbers by the hundreds of thousands. It's time to build off of that. Not destroy what we've started with unrealistic plans and unrealistic goals. Nothing good will come from a third party run and the only thing that will happen is it will turn this movement into a joke and make the media even more biased against it than it already is. Keep the movement in the republican party. Infiltrate it while it's weak and divided. That's the key to success in this revolution.

 

[Cholo]

I just got that stupid email again in a "DefendtheDistrict.com" money bomb reminder.

 

[The Only Woj]

Even though Ron Paul will not run as a 3rd party candidate ... is it still possible to do all the things necessary on our own to get his name on the ballot (with the other parties)? Ron doesn't want to run, but does that mean we can't run him?

and on Obama and Paul, I think Obama is going to win even if they put him up against God ... but Paul would force Obama to address some things. the income tax. federal reserve policy. interventionism ... how intervening in Darfur isn't much different than what we're doing in Iraq. etc

 

[The Tao Of Bill]

If Ron Paul doesn't want to run third party that's his choice. There are plenty of other candidates who have similar platforms in the third parties. Choose someone who actually wants to run.

 

[kgiese]

Ron Paul is a normal Republican. It is just that Bush is so far right that he makes conservatives look like tree hugging liberals. Who knows I never walked a mile in Bushes shoes, and I am always behind our leader! Respect the Presidency! All hail Bush!