{news} Fw: [usgp-dx] Ron Paul makes an appeal for Third Party candidates

[Tim McKee]

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Subject: [usgp-dx] Ron Paul makes an appeal for Third Party candidates
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:31:25 -0500




Sent on by Jill Bussiere, Wisconsin

NYT

By Michael Falcone


Representative Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning congressman from
Texas who attracted a devoted following in his bid for the
Republican nomination, is once again trying to shake up the
presidential race.

At a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Mr. Paul
plans to urge voters to support one of the third-party candidates
for president rather than cast their ballot for either Senator
Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, or Senator John McCain, the
Republican candidate.

"At a time when 60 percent of the American people are dissatisfied
with their presidential choices," Mr. Paul said in a statement,
"this could be the year that third-party option brings in a big
chunk of the vote."

And Mr. Paul intends to showcase some of those options at the
National Press Club on Wednesday. He will be joined by Ralph
Nader, an independent candidate, Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution
Party, former Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, who is running
on the Libertarian Party ticket and former Georgia congresswoman,
Cynthia McKinney, who is the Green Party's presidential candidate.

According to a spokesman, Mr. Paul plans to say that the Republican
and Democratic candidates "have no substantive differences on
important issues."

The four third-party candidates, on the other hand, have agreed to
sign on to a four-point plan that includes balancing the federal
budget, bringing American troops home, protecting civil liberties
and investigating the Federal Reserve.

Mr. Paul's iconoclastic ways have earned him the scorn of some,
especially in the Republican party, who fear he could sap votes
from Senator McCain on Election Day, even as he has continued to
inspire others who back his reform agenda. Several thousand turned
out
for his "Rally for Liberty," in Minneapolis last week, an alternative to
the much Republican convention taking place
nearby.

Despite that following, he has refused to run on an alternate
ticket, saying he is a Republican.

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