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Alan Keyes Criticizes Republican Presidential Field

January 17th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Alan Keyes, 2008 Presidential candidate of America’s Independent Party, and himself a contender for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2008, has a column at his blog Loyal to Liberty critiquing the 2012 Republican presidential field. Excerpt: Back in 2008 we were supposed to believe Mitt Romney’s repeated declarations that he was pro-life [...]

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Tags: Right-wing minor parties

RJ Harris: George Washington’s Foreign Policy and Ron Paul

January 14th, 2012 · 23 Comments

Posted to RJ Harris’  Website   South Carolina Citizens; my name is RJ Harris and I am a career army national guard officer having been four times deployed in the service of our Republic. I come to you today in SUPPORT of Ron Paul’s call for a return to George Washington’s foreign policy of Non-interventionism [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Gary Johnson Editorial On Ron Paul’s New Hampshire Performance

January 13th, 2012 · 84 Comments

Gary Johnson is a Presidential candidate for the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. He was previously a candidate in the GOP primary in which a fellow competitor for votes was Ron Paul. This is why Gary Johnson’s editorial at Daily Caller calling attention to Ron Paul’s performance in New Hampshire is interesting. But something [...]

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Fake Email to Media Announces Gary Johnson Quitting and Endorsing Ron Paul

January 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment

An email sent from one Joseph Hunter to many reporters on the campaign trail purports to be from the desk of former Governor Gary Johnson’s communications director, Joe Hunter. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JOHNSON ENDORSES PAUL January 3, 2012, Salt Lake City, UT — Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is officially endorsing Congressman Ron Paul [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party

Mark Levin Threatens to Work to Unseat Rand if Ron Paul Runs Third Party

January 3rd, 2012 · 88 Comments

Should Ron Paul choose to run a third party presidential campaign, radio talk show host Mark Levin has said that he will punish the elder by using his energies to unseat the younger Paul. “If Ron Paul decides that he is going to go third-party, which is detrimental to this nation, and pulls a million [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Third parties, general

Ross Levin Writes of OWS and Third Party Figures

December 30th, 2011 · 11 Comments

Resident blogger Ross Levin has penned an article over at Polizeros. His article, which is about the Occupy Wall Street Protests generally, nevertheless manages to touch on a few personalities and parties that are of interest to IPR readers. Barack Obama’s rhetoric certainly has a populist tone to it these days, but words are cheap.  [...]

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Tags: Libertarian Party · Socialist/left parties

Gary Johnson Encourages Supporters To Vote for Ron Paul in GOP Primary

December 29th, 2011 · 231 Comments

The Daily Caller interviewed Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson today and amongst the most interesting quotes from him was one encouraging his supporters to vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primaries and then vote for him in the general election, operating under the assumption that Paul will not win the Republican nomination. “Yeah,” [...]

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Bruce Cohen: Gary Johnson Announces Libertarian Presidential Bid

December 28th, 2011 · 30 Comments

“Early on, he threw a lot of red meat to the Libertarian crowd stating, “The LP is the Third Party!” He further pointed out 61% of Americans are willing to vote Third Party.”

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Los Angeles Daily News Flashes Back to Ron Paul’s 1988 Libertarian Presidential Campaign

December 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

The Los Angeles Daily News recently reprinted a column written by Debra Saunders after she attended a Paul campaign event in Los Angeles in 1988 during his Libertarian bid for the presidency. …when I got the invitation to go to Dr. Timothy (“Turn on, tune in, drop out”) Leary’s Beverly Hills house Saturday to watch [...]

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Chuck Baldwin Endorses Ron Paul

December 21st, 2011 · 35 Comments

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Tags: Constitution Party · Libertarian Party

Two New Polls Have Ron Paul In Double Digits As Third Party Candidate, Trump and Huntsman Polled Too

December 20th, 2011 · 20 Comments

The Washington Post-ABC News general election poll just came out and there were two scenarios under which Ron Paul was polled as a third party candidate. The first, a general election match-up between Paul, Gingrich, and Obama has Paul at 21%. The second, including a general election match-up between Paul, Romney, and Obama, also has [...]

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Bob Barr Endorsed Newt Gingrich

December 13th, 2011 · 114 Comments

Bob Barr was the Presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 2008, having recently switched from the GOP. It was recently rumored that he was considering a Republican run for Congress in Georgia, but this still came as quite a shock. Bob Barr is one member of a large slate of public officials and former [...]

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Wayne Root: The Perfect President: “Herman Paul”

October 25th, 2011 · 52 Comments

“The candidates who don’t fit [a] traditional role are portrayed as crazy, kooky, and extreme with “no chance of winning.” – Wayne Root

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Ralph Nader: Let Our Farmers Grow

October 23rd, 2011 · No Comments

Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Congressman Ron Paul introduced H.R. 1831, the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011″ on May 11th of this year. It is a simple bill at just two pages in length, and it would legalize the growing of industrial hemp in the United States. Currently farmers can grow industrial hemp only if [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Independents

Former Libertarian presidential candidates speak about al-Awlaki killing

October 7th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Staff at LP.org blog: The Daily Caller reports comments from Gary Nolan and Ron Paul, two past contenders for the Libertarian presidential nomination. (Paul won the nomination in 1988.) 2004 Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Nolan told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that if he had been elected president and were still in charge, terror [...]

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Ron Paul Endorses New Book Written by Boston Tea Party Chairman, Darryl W. Perry

September 30th, 2011 · 8 Comments

Ron Paul has endorsed  Duopoly: How the Republicrats Control the Electoral Process. The ten-term Congressman and three-time Presidential candidate from Texas wrote, “Darryl Perry has produced a comprehensive examination of the ways in which ballot access laws, campaign finance ‘reform’, gerrymandering, and other restrictions limited participation in the electoral process. I recommend this to anyone [...]

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Watson: “Former Governor Calls For Paul-Ventura Ticket”

September 28th, 2011 · 22 Comments

Paul Watson reports at infowars.com that Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has sensationally called for Ron Paul to quit the Republican Party in order to form a Paul-Ventura libertarian ticket that can take on the establishment candidates in the race for the White House in 2012. “Ron Paul can win, all you’ve got to do [...]

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Carl Person: My Request that Ron Paul Raise “1st 3 Are Free” Job-Creation Issue in National Debates

September 26th, 2011 · No Comments

Email from Carl Person, a candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination, to IPR: I’m going to go to Webster Hall tonight both as a member of the audience and to distribute this release to other persons attending Ron Paul’s event at Webster Hall, NYC, starting at 8:00 pm. If he raises the issue in the [...]

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Third Party talk at Occupy Wall Street protest

September 25th, 2011 · 27 Comments

This morning, author Chris Hedges was interviewed from Liberty Square, where the Occupy Wall Street protests are continuing. Among his advice to people who want reform was to…Speak in a language of justice and truth, which I think cuts across ideological lines. It is not surprising that Ron Paul came in second. Even with Libertarians there is an anger at corporatism that comes across. Theft, greed, corruption and fraud that affects the American people

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Tags: Green Party

Why the Constitution Party is Not Endorsing Ron Paul For 2012

September 18th, 2011 · 63 Comments

by Randall Stufflebeam and Audrey Queckboerner MidWest Regional Chairman and Indiana State Party Chairman http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1363: Recently a question was asked of our Party why we were not endorsing Ron Paul for his 2012 Presidential bid. The following is our response written by the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Indiana, Audrey Queckboerner and our [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party