Here comes Ron Paul's call to reject both Barack Obama and John McCain
Ron Paul is preparing to speak and it appears what he has to say won't be welcome news for Barack Obama (no surprise on that count) or John McCain (causing him, perhaps, some chagrin). 
Paul himself may have passed on an outside-the-lines run for the White House after his insurgent bid for the Republican nomination fell way short.
But the Associated Press reports that at a news conference Wednesday in Washington, the iconoclastic politician will urge others to support an alternative candidate of their choice.
The AP story relates that in his prepared remarks, Paul says: “The strongest message can be sent by rejecting the two-party system. This can be accomplished by voting for one of the nonestablishment, principled candidates.”
Perennial candidate Ralph Nader, who has curried favor with Paul backers, is to join him at the morning news conference at the National Press Club. And, according to the AP, other presidential contenders Paul invited to the event include Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party and Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party.
Here's hoping they take him up on the offer, because that will make for one memorable photo op.
The McCain camp reportedly made efforts to woo Paul, but that seems to have amounted to little. And they have little agreement on issues.
Meanwhile, all is not lost for hard-core Paul supporters who yearn for the chance to vote for him in November -- they simply have to reside in Montana. His advocates there have gotten Paul on the ballot as the Constitutional Party's presidential candidate (which could actually affect who wins the huge state's miniscule 3 electoral votes, as the Helena Independent hashes out).
-- Don Frederick
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I liked Ron Paul and I've got to say... I don't need him to tell me not to vote for either of the two socialists we have running for office. McCain was written off by the conservatives over the immigration nonsense. Obama is a complete joke and just like McCain, he's a complete phony.
We all know it, that's what so sad. I say we Christians need to pray about this because after Bush and his pre-emptive war, torture em and lock them away... etc etc... I think it's getting to the point where we need to stand on our moral values and refuse to elect those that we can positively identify as liars and/or war profiteers well in advance.
That eliminated any of our current choices for me and after voting for Bush twice I refuse to be let down in such a way where I feel as though I have blood on my hands over what my "candidate of of choice" has done..
Posted by: Frank | September 09, 2008 at 06:24 PM
Republicans will tar & feather him if they ever figure out that a tie in the electoral college would trigger the 12th Amendment to take effect. If enough of the safeguards against ties are then tripped, the Speaker of the House becomes the next president.
That's right. There's a small but real chance that Paul can flip Montana, cause a tie, and give us President Nancy Pelosi, even though she's not on the ballot!
I wonder what people would think of that?
Posted by: Joe | September 09, 2008 at 06:27 PM
Don't forget Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. He'll be there, too.
Thank you Ron Paul! It's about time someone urged America to shake off the two-party death grip on this country.
Posted by: Tim | September 09, 2008 at 06:30 PM
You go Ron!
Ron Paul represents a fiscal responsibility based an anti-war criticism of the insanity of our military spending. Ron makes a point we should have learned from Reagan - the way to crush a superpower is to make them spend until they exhaust their economy - just how Reagan overcame the Soviet Union - only now in reverse we are crushing ourselves by military spending.
Posted by: Paul | September 09, 2008 at 06:33 PM
Insurgent campaign? Is that any way to treat the ONLY PROVABLY 100% honest candidate that has ran in this election cycle.
Of course they had to marginalize him and ignore him as there is no dirt on him.
Just the fact that Ron Paul is the only candidate that our founding fathers would endorse.
I guess Americans don't prefer liberty over socialism.
Posted by: Disabled Veteran | September 09, 2008 at 06:37 PM
Ron Paul is a true Republican in the school of Thomas Jefferson … The Democratic party and current incarnation of the Republican party are Federalist in the school of Alexander Hamilton.
The difference between Jefferson and Hamilton has to do with looking at how folks solve problems ~ are they Collectivists or Individualists ?
The Collectivists believe that the majority can vote away inalienable rights of the individual for the greater good…
The individualists believe that the majority can never vote away a man’s liberty, a man’s property or a man’s freedom.
This is the difference. the major two parties are Collectivists, these are the issues.
Please google collectivism vs. individualism
Posted by: jp2 | September 09, 2008 at 06:42 PM
Frank,
SHUT UP!
You voted for Bush twice?
Your opinion is worthless to the hard-working American people. Oh yeah, leave your gawd out of my politics.
Again, shut up!
Posted by: YankeeCracker | September 09, 2008 at 06:43 PM
Wow - a Bush voter who not only owns up to it, but admits he has blood on his hands. If only this insight had dawned before voting (twice!) for someone who by any intelligent analysis had no business looking after a poodle, much less managing the free world, perhaps no apology would be necessary.
Let me guess: You were too busy watching cars drive around in circles to actually learn something about GWB and the world in general? Meanwhile, those of us who bothered educating ourselves about such trivialities as Sunni/Shiite relations and Iraqi/Al Qaeda mutual hatred, and who predicted and warned about the coming quagmire, money pit, and waste of American lives were called traitors.
Color me unimpressed that you've suddenly realized your own foolishness -- it's too late to undo the damage you and the uneducated multitudes (including the president you voted in) have caused.
Posted by: Michael the Conservative | September 09, 2008 at 06:46 PM
No one needs Ron Paul to tell them anything. Mr. Paul may have some good and strongly held conservative ideas, but for all his time in Congress he has done didly. The minor party candidates are just that because they can not convince enought people to support them. Does Ron Paul actually think he can at this late date make a difference. Oh sure, Ralph Nader loves the idea but he is a worn outloser. Bob Barr is sorry loser also.
Posted by: Morro | September 09, 2008 at 06:52 PM
SPOILER ALERT!!!
That's all fine and good for Ron "I love Austrian Economics" Paul to say (heh heh), but in reality it more than likely would result in yet another deluded Republican getting into office, one who has indicated repeatedly the intention to perpetuate Shrubbie's failed policies. If Nader takes votes from Obama, again stealing those votes from what many of us see as the lesser of two evils (even those independents such as myself are likely to recognize this), Paul and Nader will have to share the blame for letting McCain get in. Because we *know* that most Republicans are going to blindly tow the party line, while Democrats, as we've seen, are more likely to split their votes among other candidates as vote for their own. At the very least I'd like to see someone who is at least talking about changing things to get elected, as opposed to "the devil we know".
Posted by: Will | September 09, 2008 at 06:53 PM
i seriously hope obama deals with these 3rd party idiots so they don't cost him votes. yes they have a point, but they aren't helping at all. those candidates like paul should use their power to help elect obama, not just cause marginal disruptions - and instead make a real impact in the long run.
Posted by: Alex | September 09, 2008 at 06:59 PM
People can ALWAYS write in the candidate they want.
People who believe in Ron Paul should write him in.
Posted by: What aBout | September 09, 2008 at 06:59 PM
I agree that the only way to get politicians to listen to the people is for everyone to vote third party. It doesn't matter which party - vote for the person you believe in. Not voting is not a protest, it is surrender.
Posted by: Allan Wallace | September 09, 2008 at 07:02 PM
I'm glad that Paul is doing this. The time has never been better with more and more people aware of how flawed our elections are. It doesn't help that Obama and McCain are about the most corporate candidates I've seen in my lifetime. It is time for Americans to use our collective power to break the 2-party monopoly on the political process.
Posted by: Jon | September 09, 2008 at 07:02 PM
The National Press Club shall astound you.
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perot charts
rage
Posted by: nader paul kucinich gravel | September 09, 2008 at 07:15 PM
Ron Paul's battle ended months ago WHEN HE LOST THE NOMINATION OF HIS PARTY. All your efforts at this point are not going to make him president; there is nothing more to say. The American people do not want to legalize weed, do away with the fed, isolate the US from the world, institiute the gold standard, abolish the IRS, destroy NAFTA, criminalize abortion, etc. OK? Your guy's ideas have all been floating around on the loony left and right for decades, there is nothing new or worthwhile about them. And spare me all this the-only-one-who-understands-the-constitution nonsense. I don't question your patriotism, please don't question mine.
Now please go away, we heard the message and we dont care! Its over, go home!
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Posted by: Ron | September 09, 2008 at 08:48 PM
There is such a concentration of power and money in just two parties. We can see no good that can come from urging voters to dilute the vote unless its the Republican vote. We need to res-establish our world standing and name in good faith, and no one can do it better than Obama and the dems.
Posted by: Ray | September 09, 2008 at 09:00 PM
The proletariat joke isn't so funny any more.
I can only hope that the lasting legacy for this election will be that it eventually caused fundamental change in election law in the various states.
Posted by: M Barnes | September 09, 2008 at 09:26 PM
As Dennis Kucinich stated over and over recently, "Wake up, America!"
2008 marks our opportunity to reject the obsolescence of the two corporate-controlled parties and their fake debates and fake platforms.
I've had enough. Vote for any emerging-party candidate this year. Let's demand that we get OUT of this horrible war and redirect our tax dollars to our infrastructure.
Posted by: Jessica V. Cortez | September 09, 2008 at 09:27 PM
What if come voting day no one votes?
Why vote at this point for politicians who are not sound...?
Lets find someone else, there must be better.
Are these characters who are trying to convince us to put them in the seat the best this country has?
We should insist these jokers clean up their act and talk straight, and stop flinging bullshit. And we should insist that the media stop making everything into crap.
Media & politicians, they all ought to be told where to go. What a joke all this is, what a serious situation is upon us...
Posted by: suru | September 09, 2008 at 09:28 PM
Here's a poll that SUPPORTS this notion. The following poll uses approval voting style and includes ALL candidates currently running according to wikipedia. Take a look and see what America really thinks about the candidates.
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I'm really tired of seeing the mass media present us with only the Republican and Democratic choices.
Here is a poll that allows you to not only choose from all currently running presidential candidates from all parties (according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_candidates_in_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2008), but this poll will allow you to select multiple
candidates (similar to instant runoff voting). So, if there are several candidates that you wouldn't mind seeing in the white house, you are free to
select more than one.
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Results: http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/356231/results
And a nifty forum as well: http://www.misterpoll.com/forums/134756
Posted by: DebbieKat | September 09, 2008 at 09:34 PM
As a lifelong Republican, I am disgusted with my partyover the past six years. I worked for the Paul campaign, donated money, ran as a delegate and a PCO. The reaction from the party at both the local and national level was that we weren't "real" Republicans for the simple fact that we wanted limited executive power, limited government and did not find amusement in joking about killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
I will NEVER vote for another Republican candidate again. Rather than being a party of ideas, it is now a party of cultural identity and religious zealotry. If you don't blindly follow the belief of unlimited war or think that the Earth is only 6,000 years old then you don't belong in today's Republican party. This has been illustrated by the fact that the convention speakers failed to raise any major substantive policy issues.
This was a party headed for the ash heap until a bunch of white, middle aged women decided that a VP candidate whose only qualifications were she is 1) white, 2) middle aged, and 3) has a developmentally disabled child somehow enoble her to a position where there is a 20% likelihood she will be in charge of a nuclear arsenal of 5,000 warheads.
Maybe she can speak in tongues, eat mooseburgers and talk about God's will as the bombs fall.
Posted by: RustyJohn | September 09, 2008 at 10:39 PM
One has to wonder about America when the best the 2 major parties can come up with are Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin. Especially when Palin has the most executive experience of the 4 major party folks.
Wow!
Are we doomed or what?
Please vote for anyone but these 4 “majors”. We need peace and balanced budgets.
It would not hurt if any of the four actually knew what the movie “IOUSA” was about.
We must allow the free market to work AND quit bailing out the Central banks and the Federal Reserve.
Go Ron Paul and everyone else outside the Dem and Repub parties!!
Posted by: DenisL | September 09, 2008 at 11:06 PM