Ron Paul has too many non-starter positions on certain issues for me to ever really get behind him, but this is a pretty interesting move on his part, directing his weird popularity and potentially the net-roots organizing of his supporters towards the notion of breaking the 2-Party Duopoly on American Government.

Were it not for my intense fear of the words "President John McCain" I would totally be on board with this.

Ron Paul needs to campaign really hard to get republicans to vote for him or Barr in Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, and New Hampshire.

This independent wouldn't touch him or his reverse course party with a ten foot pole.

As always, Ron puts his ideals before the party-line. I raised money for Ron early on, but I'll probably be voting dem this year, simply because it makes slightly more sense to vote for a tax-and-spend democrat, than a spend-and-....well, a spend-and-spend Republican.

I know I keep harping on this, and, fair warning, I'm not going to stop. Once you get past all of the bullshit sideshows with pigs and lipstick and celebrity and every other shiny object that fits wedge-wise into the 24-hour news cycle, there is John McCain's posse with Phil Gramm at the front of the pack.

John McCain has said he will appoint Phil Gramm as Treasury Secretary if elected. Phil Gramm and John McCain will be an economic disaster and this country can't take another one right now.

All due respect to Ron Paul, please reconsider. Long story short, due to the relaxed regulation Phil Gramm lobbied for, the American taxpayer will be bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and it's going to cost a lot of fucking money. (We have to bail them out, it will be worse economically if we don't.)

Phil Gramm is the king of privatizing profits and socializing losses. How McCain can try to sell himself as a reformer with Gramm in his corner is insane. Seriously insane.

Oh, I like this. This means that the Republicans, despite the media huffing and puffing over Palin, are worried about the upcoming election, and are trying to squeeze out whatever votes they can possibly get. I think this is a good omen for Obama, despite the press narrative of trouble, if McCain is actually trying to get Ron Paul on his side.

I hope Ron Paul pushes hard to keep his own people behind him, and not McCain, just to make the Republicans squirm more.

It will never happen in a million years. Something about the whole "McCain is an unstable Warmonger surrounded by neocons that also worship at the altar of the war-enabling Federal Reserve central banksters" meme doesn't sit well with a lot of Ron Paul supporters, a lot of whom support Ron Paul specifically because he is antiwar, and isn't a warmonger surrounded by a gaggle of Zionist Trotskyite Jacobian Democracy Spreaders (i.e. neocon warmongers and banksters).