Ron Paul announces
 

HOUSTON - Ron Paul, the iconoclastic nine-term congressman from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican.


A guy might consider registering Republican for an actual anti-war candidate who voted against the war.

The vote against the defense appropriations bill, he said, was because of his opposition to the war in Iraq, which he said was "not necessary for our actual security."

Hell, Griff. For a real anti-war candidate I might even consider dropping my born and bred democratic party.
I need a candidate I can get excited about. Is he it? Or will he come with some of that right wing, moral majority baggage?

Jeez, he looks pretty good , from UT's link. :whofart:

He's the kind of guy I'd like to see wield a line item veto. He doesn't stand a chance though, since he has often said what he meant.

Yeah really a guy who says what he thinks (is honest) has no chance - that sucks!

If he could energize the libertarians in the GOP and get the national party would throw them a bone it will have been worth the run. The neo-cons are killing the grassroots of the party so it might be possible to jettison them.

The only chance he got is to go total Bullworth style.

This is my first post on this site, so I hope I'm following the rules. Ron Paul has been my only hero in both houses of Congress for years. His example prompted me to move back to the Republican Party after a decade in the Libertarian Party. He said to me that it is easier to move the Republican Party to the right than to make the Libertarian Party viable (i.e., a winner). I agreed, so here I am. Ironically, I'm more angry with the Republican leadership and Bush than ever before. Seems they were trying to beat the Democrats at their own game, increasing both spending and the burden of government. They deserved to lose this past election. I don't think Ron Paul has a chance of winning, but I'll vote for him given the chance--and with the enthusiasm I had way back in 1964.

When I was a hardass Libertarian, it was a remarkable education about politics to look at ten of Mr Paul's votes and find that I disagreed with four of them.

Undertoad,

Will you describe those 4? I might agree with you on some.

Can't remember, it was some years ago. I know one of the questions was abortion related, probably on partial-birth abortion. (Paul's against abortion in all forms)

I guess if you're gonna run you have to crank out a book. Lew Rockwell wrote the foreward.

Ron Paul has always believed that foreign and domestic policy should be conducted according to the same principles. Government should be restrained from intervening at home or abroad because its actions fail to achieve their stated aims, create more harm than good, shrink the liberty of the people, and violate rights.

Dr. Paul got some nice play on Bill Mahr(sp?) the other night. Bill was being a smart ass but never chinked his armor. Do they always wait for the guy to leave before they ask the DNC talking point questions?

Ron Paul is probably my favorite guy for the Republican party followed by Hagel.