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Source: www.boston.com --- 41 days ago
By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff MINNEAPOLIS -- As Republicans gathered in St. Paul to get their convention on track today, thousands of devotees of Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who lost a Bid for the GOP presidential nomination and became an irritant to John McCain , held an all-day counter convention across the Mississippi River. Democrats and Republicans alike were verbally abused by speakers at the "Rally for the Republic" at the Target Center, the home of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA. The irregular band of Libertarian-leaning activists heard author Bill Kauffman say "there are a lot more of us than there are Dick Cheneys, and he knows it, that's why he sleeps in his bunker." Thomas Woods, an author and professor, derided the major party candidates as "McBama," and Doug Wead, an author-historian, who worked in the White House of the first President Bush, declared: "I say to the Republicans across the river, come home, come back. This is where you started, these are your roots. Join the campaign for liberty." Wead received a standing ovation from the several thousand in the arena. Commentator Sean Hannity may be the darling of the right, but when he appeared twice on a video clip after the Fox News Channel presidential debate early this year, he was roundly booed both times by the assemblage. Besides Paul, who is to address his supporters tonight, scheduled speakers included from Grover Norquist, president of Americans fo ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 34 days ago
Ron Paul is preparing to speak and it appears what he has to say won't be welcome news for Barack Obama (no surprise on that count) or John McCain (causing him, perhaps, some chagrin). Paul himself may have passed on an outside-the-lines run for the White House after his insurgent Bid for the Republican nomination fell short, but the Associated Press is reporting that at a news conference Wednesday in Washington, the iconoclastic politician will be urging others to support an alternative candidate of their choice. The AP story relates that in his prepared remarks, Paul says: “The strongest message can be sent by rejecting the two-party system. This can be accomplished by voting for one of the non-establishment, principled candidates.” Perennial candidate Ralph Nader, who has curried favor with Paul backers, is to join him at the morning news conference at the National Press Club. And, according to the AP, other presidential contenders Paul invited to the event include Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party and Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party. Here's hoping they take him up on the offer, because that will make for one memorable photo op. The McCain camp reportedly made efforts to woo Paul, but that seems to have amounted to little. Meanwhile, all is not lost for hard-core Paul supporters who yearned for the chance to vote for him in November -- they simply have to reside in Montana. His advocates there have gotten him on the ballot ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 94 days ago
The Ron Paul revolution marches on this weekend, literally, but the latest manifestation of the movement no doubt will be tinged with sadness for the erstwhile presidential candidate due to the death of one of his top aides. Kent Snyder, 49, who worked for Paul's 1988 White House campaign (when he ran as a Libertarian) and chaired his surprisingly fiesty Bid for the 2008 Republican nomination, died in late June of viral pneumonia in a Virginia hospital. An obituary in today's Washington Post noted that without Snyder, the Paul phenomenon might never have occurred -- the Kansas native and martial arts enthusiast helped presuade the Texas congressman to enter the fray last year. At a website soliciting donations to pay for Snyder's extensive medical bills (he was not insured), Paul says in a prominently displayed statement:Kent poured every ounce of his being into our fight for Freedom. He will always hold a place in my heart and in the hearts of my family. ... Without Kent Snyder, the fight for liberty would not be where it is today. We all owe him a great debt.Paul is scheduled to speak at a rally of his adherents that follows a Saturday morning march in downtown Washington. As spelled out on the revolutionmarch.com website, the aim of the event is to express support for "restoring constitutional government as the founding fathers set forth." For some in attendance, the gathering will be a prelude to the much-publicized get-toget ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 33 days ago
Texan to Texan, as one fellow who famously switched parties in his political career to another, Phil Gramm took one last shot this week at bringing Ron Paul into the John McCain fold. Gramm not only failed, but Paul blew the whistle on him today as he castigated the choices offered voters by the two major-party presidential nominees and lent the cache he gained from his own White House Bid to various third-party alternatives. Paul held forth, as had been advertised, at a news conference in Washington where he was joined by independent (and perennial) presidential candidate Ralph Nader, Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin. (Missing from the show was Bob Barr who, true to the spirit of the Libertarian Party that tapped him as it nominee, decided at the last minute to skip the group gathering and hold his own news conference.) In his remarks, Paul revealed that a McCain representative, who he did not name, had called him as part of what has been a recent effort to score an endorsement. Later, Paul told The Times' Janet Hook the go-between was Gramm, a former Democrat who signed up with the GOP in the early 1980s. In explaining why he rejected the overture, Paul -- perhaps underestimating the size of his following these days -- said: "I don't like the idea of getting 2 or 3 million people angry at me. ... I said absolutely no. It might diminish my credibility." Paul, a Republican turn ... Source: www.chron.com --- 34 days ago
WASHINGTON — Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year, is gathering some of the candidates, independent Ralph Nader among them, on Wednesday to make his plea. ... Source: electioncenter.military.com --- 33 days ago
WASHINGTON (Sept. 10, 2008) -- Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year,... ... Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- 91 days ago
Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney will run for president as the Green Party's nominee after winning a four-way fight at the convention in Chicago this weekend. McKinney represented a suburban Atlanta district from 1992 to 2002, when she lost to one-term Rep. Denise Majette. Two years later, McKinney returned after defeating a crowded field as Majette ran for Senate; but after an altercation with a Capitol Hill police officer in 2005, McKinney lost her Bid for re-election to Rep. Hank Johnson. This weekend, McKinney won on the first ballot among the 350 delegates who attended the Green Party convention. This Fall, she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the Green Party expects to be on the ballot in 36 states, and their goal is to secure 5% of the vote. That may be too ambitious a hurdle to overcome. The party's best performance, from consumer advocate Ralph Nader, drew just 3% of the vote in 2000, and in 2004, the Green Party ticket received just 0.1% of the vote. Still, with both McKinney and Nader -- running as an independent -- in the race, they have the potential to swing a few states, as any Democrat will claim happened in Florida in 2000. McKinney isn't the only former member of Congress from Georgia to seek the White House this year. One-time Republican Rep. Bob Barr is running as a Libertarian as well. ... Source: www.ajc.com --- 76 days ago
Bob Barr's Libertarian Party Bid for the White House needs cash, but is not on the verge of being broke, Barr's campaign manager said Tuesday. Despite a fund-raising plea he sent out recently that said the campaign's progress "will stop dead in its tracks" without an immediate cash infusion, Russ Verney told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Barr has enough money to maintain his campaign at present levels. ... Source: www.lewrockwell.com --- 34 days ago
Reports the Seattle Post-intelligencer: Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year, is... ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 81 days ago
A fiery former GOP congressman who gained national prominence for doggedly pursuing impeachment of President Clinton has some Republicans worried he'll play spoiler in a tight presidential contest. Bob Barr's Libertarian Party Bid for the White House is the longest of long shots, but political experts say he may be able to exploit the unease some die-hard conservatives still feel about Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee-in-waiting. Combined with the surge in turnout among Democrats during the primaries and a difficult political climate for Republicans, they see what could be a recipe for trouble for the GOP. "Bob could be the Ralph Nader of 2008," said Dan Schnur, a GOP consultant in California who worked on McCain's 2000 campaign but is not involved in this year's contest. Consumer advocate Nader is the third-party candidate many Democrats blame for helping George W. Bush narrowly win in 2000. Rep. John Linder, a Republican who defeated Barr in 2002 after Georgia's Democratic-controlled legislature redrew congressional boundaries to put the two lawmakers in the same district, said he didn't think Barr would top 4 percent of the vote. "But in some states that may be enough," Linder said. ... Source: planet.case.edu --- 34 days ago
"The strongest message can be sent by rejecting the two-party system. This can be accomplished by voting for one of the non-establishment, principled candidates." Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year, is gathering some of the candidates, independent Ralph Nader among them, on Wednesday to make his plea. "The strongest message can be sent by rejecting the two party system," Paul said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "This can be accomplished by voting for one of the non-establishment, principled candidates." He recommended Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, former Georgia Republican Rep. Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party, former Georgia Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party and possibly others. He invited them to his news conference Wednesday. Link * * * * * * * * * We should be sick and tired of this two-party system. I am sure folks can praise this sort of "representative democracy," but the way both major parties work to limit the influence and scope of any third-party is undemocratic! Why do we not complain about the amount of gerrymandering that is going on which guarantees that 95% of incumbents are re-elected? Why do we not complain about the government's massive deficits which includes the latest figu ...
Source: www.renewamerica.us --- 34 days ago
(Associated Press) - Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year, is gathering some of the candidates, independent Ralph Nader among them, on Wednesday to make his plea... ...
Source: crazyforliberty.com --- 90 days ago
Barr Set to Make Debate Push Guys this article is in the magazine Politics it used to be called Campaign and Elections. If you ever want to learn more about campaigns you need to subscribe to this magazine. I will tell you they are one of the reasons I had had success with the Garrett Hayes campaign in 2006. If you do not read this magazine you are not serious about politics period http://www.campaignsandelections.com/stories/?StoryID=1FB19EC4-1422-17E0-F8B8758069D64A10 By Doug Daniels 07/13/08 var addthis_pub = 'campaignline'; In 1992, convinced that Reform Party candidate Ross Perot could prove a political asset, both President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton were eager to include the Texas billionaire in the presidential debates. And many observers attribute Perot's eventual 20 percent on Election Day to his folksy debate performances. This year, with former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr polling at 6 percent nationally, according to a recent Zogby survey, the Libertarian nominee is set to make his own push for inclusion in this year's three official debates, and his campaign is already challenging the rules for qualifying. "The criteria are absolutely, unequivocally unfair, and the debate commission is a complete fraud," says Russell Verney, former campaign manager for Ross Perot who's now managing Barr's White House Bid. Back in '92, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a non-partisan, independent entity respons ... Source: conservativeforchange.blogspot.com --- 91 days ago
More often than not the media discredits a third party candidate as a nobody, or a spoiler. Ralph Nader got that title 8 years ago during the 2000 election. But the difference this year is that there is a third party candidate that is actually in it to win it. Like in 1992 with Ross Perot, Bob Barr is setting his hopes of gaining entrance into the national debates that presidential candidates participate in. These are sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates . From Bob Barr's website we get this, "This year, with former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr polling at 6 percent nationally, according to a recent Zogby survey, the Libertarian nominee is set to make his own push for inclusion in this year's three official debates, and his campaign is already challenging the rules for qualifying." "The criteria are absolutely, unequivocally unfair, and the debate commission is a complete fraud," says Russell Verney, former campaign manager for Ross Perot who's now managing Barr's White House Bid." Ross Perot made big head way in 1992 by being in the debates and getting nearly 20% of the national vote in the election. So what are Bob Barr's chances in 2008? Some in the media would classify him as a spoiler to McCain, and has no chances of having an impact such as Ross Perot had. However, this site thinks to the contrary. Bob Barr has an appeal to him that John McCain and Barack Obama do not have. It would actually be good to have another voice ap ... Source: gunnyg.wordpress.com --- 33 days ago
THE RE-BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION By Jon Christian RYTER On Thursday, March 6, 2008 Congressman Ron Paul posted a 7-minute video on his website officially ending his presidential campaign. The Republican Texan, who ran on a Libertarian platform, said that while he has suspended his Bid for the White House, his “campaign for freedom will continue [...] ... Source: johmmccain.com --- 34 days ago
WASHINGTON — Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year, is gathering some of the candidates, independent Ralph Nader among them, on Wednesday to make his plea. read more ... Source: www.lastfreevoice.com --- 75 days ago
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Bob Barr’s Libertarian Party Bid for the White House needs cash, but is not on the verge of being broke, Barr’s campaign manager said Tuesday. Despite a fund-raising plea he sent out recently that said the campaign’s progress “will stop dead in its tracks” without an immediate cash infusion, Russ Verney told [...] ... Source: wmugop.blogspot.com --- 63 days ago
Note: This preview is for the general election. The primary election preview is available here . While most of political coverage has focused on the 2008 presidential race, there will be many other races on the ballot. Here is an overview of the races relevant to Kalamazoo readers. More detailed profiles of some of the races will follow soon. [ List of all Michigan candidates .][ List of local candidates ] [ List of all Kalamazoo County candidates here .] President Senator John McCain will be the Republican nominee. He will face many challenges in his Bid for the White House. See his political profile and articles about him . The Democrat nominee will be Senator Barack Obama . Several third party candidates are running, including pastor Chuck Baldwin for the Constitution Party, former Congressman Bob Barr for the Libertarian Party, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party, and independent Ralph Nader. Congress Republicans face many challenges in the battle for Congress . They face higher rates of retirements and more competitive seats in both the House and Senate. If Democrats win larger margins in Congress, they will be more able to pass their legislation. President (Michigan) Michigan leans slightly to the left in Presidential elections. This means that democrats need to win Michigan to win the White House, but Republicans don't. Michigan continues going through a recession during the sixth year of democrat Governor J ... Find more results for Libertarian White House Bid on RSSMicro.com |
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Apparently some of the rumors running around are true. Ron Paul is going to make a “ major announcement ” tomorrow. His presidential campaign may be ended, (except in Montana where the Constitution Party has conscripted him as their candidate without so much as a by your leave) but he still seems to be mixing things up in the final weeks of the election. I just contacted Bob Barr’s campaign manager, Russ Verney, and he confirmed that something is in the wind, pointing me to this piece in the Washington Times . WASHINGTON (AP) - Libertarian-leaning congressman Ron Paul is urging voters to reject John McCain and Barack Obama and support one of the third-party candidates for president. Paul, a Republican who abandoned his White House Bid earlier this year, is gathering some of the candidates, independent Ralph Nader among them, on Wednesday to make his plea. “ The strongest message can be sent by rejecting the two party system ,” Paul said in prepared remarks obtained by AP. “ This can be accomplished by voting for one of the non-establishment, principled candidates .” From a high level, Dr. Paul seems to be indicating that any third party choice would be preferable to Obama or McCain, but where would his heart lie among the various contenders? Nader is pretty far out on the “tree-hugging” left wing, and Cynthia McKinney isn’t on the ballot anywhere but in her local PTA office last time I checked. Paul himself once ran for president ...
Ralph Nader is back, running for president as an independent challenging corporate power. While his campaign has received little media attention since its February launch, it's gotten a boost recently from left-leaning voters upset over Sen. Barack Obama's recent reversals on telecom immunity and public campaign financing. Results from a national CNN poll released earlier this month show the longtime consumer and environmental advocate with the support of 6 percent of registered voters, putting him ahead of Libertarian Party candidate and former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, who's running at 3 percent. That poll gave Obama a narrow 5-point lead over Republican Sen. John McCain in a two-man race. However, the Democrat's lead narrowed to just 3 percent when Nader and Barr were added to the mix. The Nader campaign is scrambling to make 10 percent in the polls, which would get the candidate into the Google-sponsored debates in New Orleans on Sept. 18. This marks the 74-year-old Nader's fifth Bid for the White House since 1992, when he ran in Massachusetts' Democratic primary and stood as a write-in for "none of the above" in New Hampshire's Democratic and Republican primaries. His running mate this time around is Matt Gonzalez , former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Nader's Green Party candidacy in 2000 has often been blamed for Al Gore's loss to George W. Bush, though others have argued that the real problem af ...