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Ron Paul is a Libertarian running on the Republican ticket. He is not part of the beltway gang and was voted the 4th most bipartisan member of congress (with AIPAC Girl Nancy Pelosi ranking dead last, the most partisan member of the Capital hill gang).
Nice try though. If you watched that piss poor debate last Sunday you could have seen him pound the neocons into the ground on their own stage during the brief time they alloted him (esp Cheney, his role, and his secrecy). It was worth watching.
Paul stated his reasons for running as a Republican on The Daily Show, so everyone here should have seen it. He realizes that the only way he can get his message heard is to get into the big debates, and the only way into the big debates is to play ball with the two party system. It seems to be paying off pretty well for him.
Expect Paul to wage an insurgency during the primaries, his campaign's primary focus. At the least he will have a strong % all the way through which he can use to help bolster an antiwar, anti-establishment, 3rd party ticket. Who knows, maybe the ticket will be transpartisan, with the promise of a transpartisan cabinet. That would be a good thing.
