Congressman Ron Paul has made a decision about keeping his name on the ballot as Mike Bloomberg’s vice president.  Of course, the decision only affects voters in Virginia, who have the choice of voting for a Bloomberg/Paul ticket due to the Independent Green Party.
Paul’s spokesman, Jesse Benton, said:
“We’re not going to take any action to [...]

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New York’s billionaire mayor is not launching an unexpected bid for the White House.  He is, however, on the Virginia ballot as a candidate for president, with Ron Paul as his vice president.  More incredible is the fact that this happened without the knowledge of either Bloomberg or Paul.
This surprise move for what some might [...]

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The Miami Herald has a brief item on Libertarian Bob Barr’s presidential campaign, saying Barr “is not your usual fringe candidate. For one thing, he’s got a record as an elected official. Barr, at the time a conservative Republican, represented a suburban Atlanta congressional district from 1994-2003. And he became a national figure [...]

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In IPR’s earlier interview with Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party presidential hopeful said there weren’t any real differences between him and Ron Paul. Well, LRC’s Laurence Vance begs to differ:
Many conservatives, however, still have a China problem. Even real conservatives like Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin. He is upset that Bush is attending the [...]

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In a recent third-party update, Lew Rockwell noted that Libertarian Bob Barr and independent Ralph Nader are at just 2% each in July 22 Harris poll.
Rockwell, who served as Ron Paul’s chief of staff during the Texas congressman’s first stint in D.C., takes exception to a Barr statement saying his campaign “hired the same technology [...]

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In echoing Lloyd Bentsen’s famous rebuke of Dan Quayle, the Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Malcolm says, “We know Ron Paul, and Bob Barr is no Ron Paul.”
Malcolm isn’t speaking of the vast ideological gulf between the conservative Libertarian and the libertarian Republican, but rather the even greater chasm between their fundraising and spending habits.
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In this essay, LP radical and LPNY state chair Eric Sundwall advocates that radical libertarians avoid the BTP and stay in the LP. It is entitled Party Like It’s 1973, an apparent ironic reference to Party like it’s 1773 by BTP interim chair Jim Davidson.
I was somewhat intrigued when popular Libertarian blogger Tom Knapp started [...]

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Appearing on Glenn Beck last night, Ron Paul said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be allowed to fail. Unlike Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, who says Congress should provide a “temporary line of credit” to boost the share price of the publicly traded stock — and give the Fed more “oversight” over the [...]

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David Weigel, over at Reason’s Hit& Run blog, has an extensive (and fair) report on the Revolution March in DC and its various participants. Most interesting to the readers of this blog, his comments on Chuck Baldwin.
The final speech before Paul’s came from Chuck Baldwin, the Pensacola, Florida pastor and Constitution Party candidate, who used [...]

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Libertarian Bob Barr and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin have both sought the mantle of “next Ron Paul” — i.e. the person who would carry on the R3VOLution through November. Thus far, both have failed to generate even a sizable fraction of the Texas congressman’s political or financial support. Barr, an ex-CIA man, is insufficiently [...]

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