Ron Paul refuses to endorse McCain

[flourbug]

Watch the video. RP makes a good argument -

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ron_Paul_offers_support_to_thirdparty_0910.html


Ron Paul held a press conference urging voters to select a third-party presidential candidate instead of Barack Obama or John McCain.

The Texas congressman said that he fielded a phone call from the McCain campaign on Tuesday asking him for an endorsement.

"They called and it was a bit of a surprise to me," Paul said, "because their request was that I endorse John McCain today."

But he "didn't like the idea of getting two to three million people angry at me," so he turned them down, Paul told the laughing crowd.

"The idea was that he would do less harm than the other candidate," Paul complained.

[Lars]

Watch the video. RP makes a good argument -

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Ron_Paul_offers_support_to_thirdparty_0910.html


Ron Paul held a press conference urging voters to select a third-party presidential candidate instead of Barack Obama or John McCain.

The Texas congressman said that he fielded a phone call from the McCain campaign on Tuesday asking him for an endorsement.

"They called and it was a bit of a surprise to me," Paul said, "because their request was that I endorse John McCain today."

But he "didn't like the idea of getting two to three million people angry at me," so he turned them down, Paul told the laughing crowd.

"The idea was that he would do less harm than the other candidate," Paul complained.


3rd party candidates had significant impact on the elections of 1992 and 2000. The Ross Perot vote won the election for Bill Clinton over Bush I in '92 and the Ralph Nader vote won the election for Dubya Bush over Gore in 2000. Unintended consequences.

[Johnny]

I prefer to think of it as Bush cost Perot the election over Clinton.

[Michael]

I remember watching the first Republican debate at the Reagan Library. I had the distinct impression that Ron Paul was being marginalized. He was asked about how his positions on the issues would line up with Reagan's. Ron related how Reagan and campaigned for his first election to the House. He mentioned going back to the gold standard, the government debt, and - through all of this time McCain was beside him sneering.

Ron Paul is absolutely right about government debt, eliminating our interventionist foreign policy and other issues and it is unfortunate that someone like Paul who has a conservative index voting record in the mid 90 percent range can be marginalized while McCain can get the nomination with a life long rating at below 40 percent.

[MomCares]

Did anyone here attend RP's recent convention?


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