Digg: Huffington Post Front Page - Rand Paul Expected to Announce Senate Bid

I'm one of those Ayn Rand Libertarians, not a Rothbard Libertarian, but one of those who like Justian Raimondo at Antiwar.com and The Brandon Institute, and Alexandre Cockburn of Counterpunch, who supported Ralph Nader. Ralph Nader has a right to be on the ballot, no matter what party, of ideology, for some of us concerned about free, fair, open honest elections and ballot access, candidate rights and voters rights, Nader was the man with the plan.

Many of those on the left had NO idea who or what Nader was. They saw him through the eyes of MSM, a "Don Quixote" poking at corporate and government windmills (MSM). Nader refeused to join the Green Party which is why they did not support him in 2004, when he would have won with a Green party nomination.. McKinney, like Ron Paul, are members of many parties. Nader is not a member of any party.

Anyway, I watched the Greens, Dems and liberals fight against each other using dirty tricks of having each other arrested and my gawd, Democrats were telling the socialists they should be shot, Green Party split in two, and along comes Ron Paul, who Nader called it when he said Ron Paul was going to drop out.. which Nader was right.. and I don't have regrets not working on ballot access for Nader this election, the rEVOLution was worth it.. now if we can get the Nader activists to join us, then we will get somewhere, and it's not going to be the GOP or Sarah Palin. Those hard core Nader supporters are activists who have hit brick walls and have no where else to go, so they create and establish PRIGS and PACS, but they are going to stear clear of "Conspiracy theory", which unfortunately, it is true that Conspiracy Theory runs deep in Ron Paul's camp as it does LaRouche. Ron Paul's rEVOLution was born out of YouTube conspiracy, which is why it's avoided by those long time activists who may be interested in helping on certain issues, for example, ending the fed, but fear, that ending the fed with Ron Paul will mean they sell out for something important to them, single payer healthcare. They are all over single payer healthcare and according to MSM, the houses are responding to them and even though Ron Paul has H.R. 2629 Coersion is not healthcare", few folks are going to town hall meetings and debating healthcare, and still, that is not lessening the fears that the issues of pro-abortion, where they are strongly pro-choice, and most important is Ron Paul being a Republican.. the neocons are too powerful to not win, so that puts the whole Ron Paul camp on the fringe.. they want to go main stream, and hope that we would join them... but I don't see that happening, even though, because Nader has been correct about the parties, the corporations the corruption, I see Nader influencing the left far more than Ron Paul at this point. Since Ron Paul and Ralph Nader agree on several issues, like ending the wars, this should be the common ground and where a new party or movement of peace might start. Both are unreasonable men of principle and integrity.

rand is taken a beating over at huffpo.

TJ420

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Ron Paul Supporter Since 1997
`Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life'- Aristophanes -