Third Party Watch

Ron Paul provided a video assessing the past campaign performance which also allows a glimpse into the future of his presidential bid. He also detailed two key new additions to his staff.

With respect to Paul’s current political journey, his starting point of being a self-described “reluctant candidate” around a year ago has advanced to [...]

I had heard whispers that this might take place, but was holding off until I had better confirmation. However, Tex McRae is now reporting this at LRC, so I’ll cut-and-paste:

Ron Paul is scheduled to speak at CPAC on Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 in the Regency Ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, [...]

Here’s the press release:

RON PAUL ENDORSED BY THE ALABAMA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY

Texas Congressman also wins organization’s public straw poll

BIRMINGHAM, January 26—The Alabama Republican Assembly today announced the winner of its Presidential Endorsing Convention held on January 26, 2008 at the Birmingham Marriott.

Delegates from ALRA clubs around the state attended the endorsing convention to select their choice [...]

During a portion of last night’s Republican presidential debates, each candidate was allowed to ask another candidate one question any question of his choosing. Ron Paul chose to target John McCain on fiscal policy, forcing McCain to obfuscate in his response. I’m not sure if there is now a new campaign strategy to [...]

The Fresno City College Sociology department hosted a 2008 Presidential Campaign Forum Jan 13. Several minor party candidate participated, as well as representatives from some of the more mainstream campaigns. An interesting article is describing the debate is located here, and I’ll capture the actual debate highlights below:

Missing from the media interview were [...]

A poster at Ron Paul Forums got the general story straight, but missed on a minor detail with respect to Ron Paul and ongoing allegations of racism. The posting below describes a source as being “disgusting, vile, and repugnant;” I’ll provide additional graphic examples. Here’s his take [I’m cutting-and-pasting verbatim, formatting translation [...]

Unedited program transcript below:

GLENN: Will you run as a third candidate if you done get the nomination?

PAUL: No, I don’t want to do that. I have no plans of doing that. This is a tough enough job right now.

GLENN: Really? Well, why is that? You don’t think — I mean, if it was McCain and [...]

Ballot-Access News

Although Louisiana holds a presidential primary on February 9, the Republican Party chooses its delegates to the national convention with a two-step caucus/convention system. The first round was held on [January] 22, when approximately 10,000 Louisiana Republicans turned out to vote in eleven different cities for delegate to the state convention. Each U.S. House [...]

In addition to the endorsement earlier today of Norma “Jane Roe” McCorvey, Donald Luskin had some incredibly nice words to say about Ron Paul today at NRO.

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul sounds radical when he advocates the elimination of the individual income tax, a return to a gold standard, the wholesale downsizing of the federal [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 21, 2008
CONTACT: DAVID BROWNLOW, VICE CHAIRMAN, 503-307-3851

CONSTITUTION PARTY OF OREGON

RON PAUL SHOULD BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Eugene, OR - On January 19, 2007, the Central and Executive Committee of the CONSTITUTION PARTY OF OREGON met and voted to offer our wholehearted endorsement of Congressman Ron Paul for President.

Chairman Jack [...]

Quick trivia question: Who is Norma Leah McCorvey?

Here’s the Wiki answer:

Norma Leah McCorvey (née Nelson born September 22, 1947, in Simmesport, Louisiana) is best known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade lawsuit in which a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognized abortion as a Constitutional right, overturning individual states’ laws against abortion, [...]

Here’s how Dave Weigel wrote it up:

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (a perennial dream candidate for the LP) has endorsed Ron Paul.
I am endorsing Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for President because of his commitment to less government, greater liberty, and lasting prosperity for America. We are at a point in this country [...]

For some reason, Fox News continues to disregard the fact that Ron Paul is one of the GOP presidential candidates and he didn’t ignore Nevada like most of the presidential candidates.

I received the graphic above in my e-mail (click to enlarge) and don’t know to whom the credit is due. However, this screenshot was [...]

With 1,785 out of 1,789 precincts currently reporting, Mitt Romney is the obvious winner with around 51 percent of the overall vote. Paul is leading McCain at this time with 6,084 votes compared to McCain’s 5,648 votes.

I was talking with Eric Garris earlier today about the convention process in Nevada and had started writing [...]

From The Facts in Brazoria County, Texas:

One question that has haunted Congressman Ron Paul on the campaign trail is his future — how long does he intend to run? And will he run as a third-party candidate if he doesn’t secure the Republican nomination. [...]

Many supporters and analysts also wonder if Paul will run as [...]

Ron Paul supporters Chris Brunner, Bradley Jansen and Berin M. Szoka have just started a new group blog called Liberals With Class. I know Brunner locally and he also blogs at Lew Rockwell.com from time to time. Jansen is a former Paul staffer. Along with many other activities, Szoka blogs at Gays [...]

A post from the IAP Chair, Christopher H. Hansen…

“Anonymous wrote:

Nevada State Republican Leadership:

I have been having lots of calls because the State Leadership has sent out wrong polling place cards. Then because of these erroneous cards which were sent out with polling places that were wrong, I received an automated telephone call yesterday, 1-15-08, and [...]

UPDATE: James W. Harris wrote a strong defense of Ron Paul which provides some compelling reasons for people to support or continue to support the candidate.

To begin, I need to disclaim that I know all of the writers (have shared booze with them on multiple occasions; they are Facebook friends, etc.) involved in the [...]

I’ll be the guest on the Jer Show on Ron Paul Revolution Radio tomorrow. For those of you used to my media appearances, you know how badly I hate anything until the sun has made my shadow appear on the other side of my body. That’s what they make coffee for, I guess. [...]

There was a thread posted earlier at RonPaulForums about a billionaire poised to dump a lot of money to support Ron Paul’s campaign. The thread disappeared (there were quite a few commenters suspecting a hoax, others totally believing it). I’m not commenting on the authenticity of the content, but saving the text here [...]

As he’s a friend, I’ve know Ed Thompson was supporting Ron Paul for some time. (The Wiki data is out of date, by the way. He’s currently running for mayor, not president. ) Ed was on the radio in Wisconsin covering the Ron Paul campaign. Here’s some of the transcript, and the [...]

The AP is reporting that Ron Paul could come in as high as first place in Nevada:

By contrast, Republican candidates have stayed away from the diverse electorate and unfamiliar electoral landscape as Nevada voters weigh in earlier than ever before.

No major GOP candidate has set foot in the state for two months, and some Republicans [...]

The New York Times titled it: Paul Beats Giuliani (Again):

The bad news for Rudolph W. Giuliani Tuesday night in Michigan was that Representative Ron Paul of Texas appears to have beaten him handily again, just as he did in Iowa.

With 89 percent of the precincts reporting at 11:20 p.m., Mr. Giuliani was in a distant [...]

Crazy for Liberty is reporting that he got an e-mail with this text:

Draft Bloomberg Committee Launches Petition
Petition widget available for bloggers to easily publish on their site WidgetImage2

If you believe Mike Bloomberg should run for president, then now is the time to tell him!

America needs and deserves a president with vision and a proven track [...]

Texas Libertarian leader Pat Dixon a few days ago:

I submit this not as a representative of the Libertarian Party, but as a supporter of Ron Paul who has donated the federal limit to his campaign.

I have been aware of Ron Paul supporters vandalizing property by spray painting “Ron Paul” on fences in Austin. I have [...]