Ron Paul, officially for the first time that I’m aware, says that he won’t endorse John McCain:
BRANSON — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who continues to be a thorn in the side of his party and presumptive nominee John McCain, said Friday night that he won’t endorse McCain or campaign for him.
“I can’t support anybody who supports the war,” Paul said, in a brief interview while he signed hundreds of copies of his book brought to Friday night’s “Freedom Rally” by some of his supporters.
So does this mean he’d endorse Barr ?
Well, as I noted earlier this week, Reason’s David Weigel reports that endorsing a third-party candidate would hurt Paul’s chances of getting reappointed to the House Banking Committee next year since the GOP controls such appointments.
Maybe, but I hardly think there’s that much of a difference between refusing to endorse your party’s candidate — which, considering that I cannot bring myself to vote for John McCain, I fully understand — and endorsing someone else.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Keep it up Ron! Together, we can cripple the Republican chances! However, I hope he endorses someone in such away as not to cipher votes away from the Dems. This election gives us the best chance for a 3rd party seen yet, especially if HRC somehow locks the Dem’s ticket. I could see Obama/Paul running on a joint ticket on an even more radical platform. Both are strict constitutionalists, while Obama has to deal with supporting and propagating the views of the Dem leadership (big govt, tax increases, war on terror continues, overseas expansion continues).
WHAT ABOUT THAT BITCHES!!!!
June 1st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Ron Paul won’t be VP — that would be politcally foolish of Obama. But I could see Obama embracing Paul and many of his ideas once he’s president. Obama often talks of a bipartisan cabinet.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
The idea that Ron Paul would be in Barack Obama’s cabinet is, quite honestly, even more laughable than the idea that he’d be in John McCain’s cabinet.
Ron Paul is a libertarian conservative. Barack Obama is a neo-socialist liberal.