Speculation Mounts Ron Paul Will Run 3rd Party Ticket

Speculation is mounting that Texas Rep. Ron Paul will mount a third party bid for the presidency as pressure from his supporters builds ahead of his appearance Tuesday night on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

According to a report, Paul’s supporters were deeply upset by how the libertarian Texas Representative was treated at the Republican National Convention last week. 300 of them joined in a conference call on Sunday night planning to urge Paul to launch a last-minute independent bid for the White House.

In order for Paul to appear on the ballot in all 50 states, he would have to join the Libertarian party’s ticket — either as former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s running mate or as his replacement. The party’s present vice presidential nominee, Jim Gray, would have to drop out of the race.

The conventional wisdom holds that, in a three-way race between President Barack Obama, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul, the two Republican candidates would split the conservative vote and easily deliver the president his second term.

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That would be his way of sticking it to the Republicans. Run, Paul, Run!!

Yay!!!

Obama to secretly give paul the $$$

Astrologically speaking......THIS scenario could happen. Energies (transits) surrounding the election indicate a "repeat" of the hanging "chads" fiasco in 2000 and the highly contentious process....... the old adage "expect the UNexpected" is the buzz word.

Paul will NOT run as a 3rd party candidate, this news is just bogus and wishful thinking.

That said- if he were to run, I would change my vote and vote for Paul. Just knowing this should scare the living crap out of the republicans.

It's time republicans nominated real conservatives, instead of liberal country club republicans like the robot.

And for the dems- the same thing. Where is Nader when you need him?

No- Ron won't run as a 3rd party- as much as he hates big government republicans, he hates socialists even more!

Martin Ent Inc wrote: Obama to secretly give paul the $$$

I hope so! It sounds like something the GOP would do if the situation were reversed!

Delegate beatings, stinky RNC, all here. The RNC set the stage for a Ron Paul third party run better than his supporters ever could have.
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They can't win if they don't cheat....

Ron Paul is all too aware that his joining a 3rd party ticket would essentially hand the election to Obama and he is too much of a patriot to be the one that assures the current occupant gets a return engagement.

No, expect Ron Paul to stand up and tell those that support him that they need to cast their votes for Romney to ensure that everything possible is done to prevent Obama from serving a second term. There will be discussions with Mitt about the role he will play in the administration in return for doing so, just as there were discussions between Obama and Clinton to make sure that her supporters voted for him. Transition team, senior adviser to the president, tasked to head up the audit of the Federal Reserve - the possibilities are as far and wide ranging as the imagination allows - perhaps even the first Secretary of the Treasury not to be employed by the "too big to fail banks" in quite some time.

No, Paul won't join a ticket that might take votes away from the Republican candidate. He might not have much use for Romney, but he has absolutely no use for Obama and would categorically reject doing anything which might later be seen as assisting him with the election in November.

Yep.