I challenge you! I’ll show you what a little school boy you really are. Are you ready to be schooled?

Um, yeah. Who sounds like the schoolkid here?

You PaulBots are a funny bunch.

I’m interested to know who you are voting for this election in 2008. I’m sure I could find sustantially more material on any candidate you present left, right, center, whatever facade you buy into. In fact,I dare you to post who you’re voting for. I challenge you! I’ll show you what a little school boy you really are. Are you ready to be schooled?

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTJmOWM2ZGQzNzAzOTQwYWJlMDg4YjJiMjE4MWRlZTY

I understand your concerns regarding a Ron Paul independent run. I have already pointed out that Ron Paul has clearly and repeatedly denied any intention of running as an independent. I can’t guarantee that he will continue to hold this position but I will say that if Ron Paul runs as an independent he will lose my support.

On the Reagan endorsement front, I agree with you, kind words are not an endorsement. You are confusing me with the original poster. In my post I was carefull to state that “Ronald Regan had this to say about Ron Paul”. I wanted to show where the original poster had gotten the idea that Reagan had stepped out of the grave to root for Ron Paul.

You keep asking about Ron Paul’s chances for getting the republican nomination. Quite frankly his only chance is based on convincing people like Mike’s America that he is a “serious candidate”. I can only hope that when Ron Paul makes it to South Carolina you will be there to ask him the hard questions.

As for the Reagan “endorsement” it is nothing of the kind. Do you know how many kind words President Regan issued to Congressmen? Do you know how many Congressmen were invited to ride with RR on Air Force One?

Send your boy RP down to Hilton Head next week so I can ask him to state his absolute and unequivocal denial that he intends to run as an Independent. Unless he says in clear language that he will not run if he doesn’t get the nomination I would consider the door open.

And why not? I bet most of you folks would happily walk off that cliff with him.

Ready to take the pledge yourselves?

“Ron Paul says he is no Ross Perot.
The Republican presidential candidate, who is trailing in the polls but has a loyal following, told the Salt Lake County GOP Central Committee Saturday that if he does not get the Republican nod, he will not jump to a third party.

“I have no intention of doing that,” Paul said”

Here is another article from the wall street Journal
“Ron Paul: No Third-Party Bid for Me”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2007/10/05/ron-paul-no-third-party-bid-for-me/
“The thought does not cross my mind about a third party,” Paul told us today”

There are of course also numerous videos of mass media interviews where he is asked this question.

Ronald Regan had this to say about Ron Paul:
http://www.militaryforpaul.com/reagan.html
“Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.”
- Ronald Reagan

Looking at some of the posts above supporting Ron Paul I can understand that people would want to dismiss him as a fraud or worse, but the man has been a registered republican all his life except for the six months he run as an independent. Has the second most republican voting record in congress (Second only to Tancredo in my opinion), takes no special interest money, has been married to the same woman for fifty years and is an all arround nice guy.

Maybe there is a reason why some of us are falling for him…

Now, if RP wants to dispel the idea that he is a FRAUD he can do it by saying he will NOT run as an Independent in 2008.

But he won’t say that will he?

And let’s be clear: The article you cite states that RP endorsed Reagan in 1976. It does NOT say, as Non Serviam suggests that Reagan endorsed RP.

Did RP also endorse Reagan in 1980? 1984?

You call it “miscommunication” Kevin, but it seems to me that RP’s entire campaign is founded on either willful ignorance or deliberate deception.

Again, if RP wants to run as a Republican, he’s free to do so. But unless he forswears any independent candidacy he has NO RIGHT to be included in GOP debates. And I have changed my mind and now fully support tossing him out of future debates unless he will make that pledge.

It was a fine suggestion several hundred years ago. It would be a total abrogation of duty and responsibility to enact such a policy now. Fundamentally unserious suggestions such as this will not (I dearly hope) win you votes.

I don’t see these issues addressed with many Republican presidential candidates, with terrorism often at the center of discussion instead and this, I dare say, is a path to militarizing our society in a way that the terrorists would applaud. They would applaud us destroying our liberties and yet our government has pressed on in the name of our security, our fear is our greatest enemy.

I’m not saying Ron Paul would magically fix all these problems but he would be a interesting counter balance to a Congress that is charging on like a derailed train. The alternative being we can setup a cooler for the Democrats and risk turning the country into a communtarian state, that many would deride for our history’s sake.

BTW: Ron Paul usually cites Taft’s foreign policy, a hundred year change, which endorses not isolationism but trade with all nations and alliance with none, as per Washington’s suggestion.

Check out a couple of my op-ed’s at Wrong Policy, the latest post is on the Republican party’s shattered base and the change this could trigger in our politics.

WrongPolicy.blogspot.com

The endorsement for Ronald Regan he is talking about is also on that article.
“Ron Paul was one of four members of Congress to endorse Ronald Reagan in 1976.”

I don’t really know what your litmus test for a “Rino” is, but since Ron Paul has ten congressional terms (as a republican of course) it is very simple to look up his actual voting record.
http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=296 I would be happy to hear your objections and examples of true Republican voting records.

Go back to sleep!

Wake up people!

Vote for positive *change* in 2008.

Ron Paul for the win.

Neat trick since he died in 1998.

As for those “endorsements.”

Serving in the White House Political Office I coordinated the endoresmenents for Congressmen President Reagan made in the 1988 election. I don’t recall Dr. Paul being on that list which is probably appropriate since HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AS A LIBERTARIAN that year.

And just for the record, in 1988 RP got 431,750 votes or 0.5% of those cast.

Non Serviam: Either you have been misinformed or you are actively trying to misinform (otherwise called a LIE) about who and what Ron Paul is.

RP is a classic RINO (Republican In Name Only) who is using the party for his own purposes.

It’s clear you don’t understand that simple concept and I can only imagine you are in for a Ross Perot sized disappointment (scratch that… you’re in for a BIGGER dissapointment) when RP gets only a few percentage points in the primaries.

And I guess at that point we will learn what true esteem YOU and your fellow Grim RP’rs hold for the REAL REPUBLICAN PARTY.