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pamela

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4. He has never run as a third party.
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 04:19 AM
Jan 2012

I wish he would but I don't think he will. He has always run as a republican. In many ways Ron Paul is the worst thing that has happened to the Libertarian Party. He is, by far, the most well known Libertarian but by being a republican he has greatly weakened the Libertarian party. If he would run as a Libertarian, he would lose but he would get enough votes for the Libertarian Party to be included in the 2016 debates. That is what happened with Perot in 92 and why he was allowed in the 96 debates. I can't believe the Libertarian Party hasn't grasped this and put pressure on him to put up or shut up. Getting in the debates would be huge for a third party but Ron Paul is pretty much the only Libertarian who could achieve this. I bet most folks don't even know who ran as the Libertarian Party candidate in 2008. It wasn't Ron Paul.*




*It was Bob Barr.
In 2004 it was Michael Badnarick

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