{"id":1631,"date":"2008-02-09T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/02\/09\/what-should-ron-paul-do-with-all-that-money\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:59:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:59:23","slug":"what-should-ron-paul-do-with-all-that-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/02\/09\/what-should-ron-paul-do-with-all-that-money\/","title":{"rendered":"What Should Ron Paul Do With All That Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With there being increasing evidence that [tag]Ron Paul[\/tag] is shifting from his Republican Presidential campaign to his reelection campaign<\/a> for the [tag]House of Representatives[\/tag] — essentially dropping out of the Presidential race<\/a> — the question becomes what to do with all the energy, effort, and money behind Mr. Paul’s spirited run. While I did not agree with a lot of his platform, he showed he was a viable, sincere candidate and, unlike other ‘outsider’ or [tag]independent candidates[\/tag] (Nader in 2004 or 2000, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, Dennis Kucinich), he proved that he could combine [tag]grassroots support[\/tag], galvanize several cross-sections of the population, and have significant fund raising capability. Though it appears he has ruled out running as a third party candidate for the 2008 Presidential election, his campaign shows that there is a tremendous opportunity to establish another [tag]national political party[\/tag] in America (and if anything has been made clear by the internal treatment of Paul, Kucinich, and Gravel by the Republican and Democratic party, it’s that the parties want nothing to do with them or public discussions on dissent and policy disagreements).<\/p>\n

The question then becomes what could be the basis of a [tag]new third party[\/tag] in our current political system?<\/p>\n