Paul for Prez!

The announcement that Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex) is beginning the process to run for President has produced an electric response on all the blogs and online sites. I intend to make this blog "Ron Paul for President" central over the next year given that my orginial purpose for the blog, promoting the book Beating the Powers that Be, has pretty much its course and I will be writing something new this summer. In other words, the blog's been given cause, a gulp of gas, to keep going for the coming year.

What a conicidence! Wednesday, on the Sloan Ranger talkshow on WGNU AM 920 in St. Louis being interviewed on my book Beating the Powers that Be, I talked up Ron Paul as being the only person out there capable of unting desperate groups outside of and on the fringes of the two major parties. I was hoping, and we had talked about this here first, a fusion candidacy of the LP and CP with Paul at the head of that ticket. But I think Paul is going to take his shot with the GOP and see what he can accomplish. He’s certainly to have a better chance of winning than Brownback, Huckabee, Thompson, Hunter, Cox and the other jokers in the GOP field. To me, Paul is in tier one with Romney, McCain and Guliani.

Of course, by doing this, Paul foreswears running a Third Party candidacy because sore loser laws prevent this from happening. This is why Buchanan had to jump to the Reform Party when he did. Good luck Ron! We’re right behind you!

For Paul to have any chance at winning or at least doing well, then he needs grasroots support. Here's where third party activists can help. Free Staters could help Paul in New Hampshire. LOS activists can help Paul in South Carolina. All over the country members of the CP, LP or other non-major parties could join in Paul's campaign and work for it. Because his cause is their cause as well. While Paul may be running for the GOP nomination, this is a marvelous opportunity for non-major party people to organize themselves and help affect the political process because Ron Paul shares many of the same views on issues of concern to non-major party voters whether on immigration, the size of the federal government, trade, and this accursed war in Iraq. Paul is not perfect by any means, but he's the best we've got and given the support I've seen for him on internet sites for the past six years, this is the moment we've been waiting for.

Paul's campaign is golden opportunity for the issues that matter to us get a hearing in debates and forums across the country. Maybe he won't win the GOP nomination, but the potential affect the debate, change paradigms as my friend Red Phillips says and bring many people around to the view of true conservatism is an opportunity we can't afford to pass up. I can't wait for Ron Paul to get into a GOP debate and say "J,Accuse! to the neocons and to John McCain. We wouldn't have gotten that opportunity with anyone else.

Once an official campaign website goes up, I'll make sure to link to it. Finally we have someone and something to look forward to.