I WILL NEVER SUPPORT THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OR THE CONSTITUTION PARTY THE POPULIST PARTY OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY WHO WAS TOO

I was out on the street corners on a regular basis. I gave money to just about every money bomb spending much, much more money than even on my own campaign. My wife and I still have our Ron Paul bumper stickers on our cars refusing to ever give in.

I have asked for some support from Ron Paul supporters. I have not asked for money because I know everyone is tapped out from giving to Ron Paul. But do you think I have received any support. Nobody has even offered to let me use their name as an endorser much less offer to right a letter to the editor to discuss my Social Security privatization key issue.

So, don't rip on Libertarians. We are the ones who are out there in force willing to join in and help any advocate for freedom to carry the torch.

It is the Republicans who are so dedicated to "party" that will not consider even a modicum of support to another party's candidate.

Andy Favor
California 73rd Assemlby District Candidate
www.AndyFavor.com

I stand by you fellow patriot. Hold the line in the wave of the splinter groups. They will pick off those of weak resolve. NO THIRD PARTY EVER. I will go not as a slave to a neo-conned party but as a free man with my liberties still in hand as the final blows are struck by the waves of the mob A.K.A. "The Third Party Coalition."

to Ron Paul ALSO supports Bob Barr.

And I've been here in the Revolution from the start.

Why is there such a pervasive mindset that somehow those who support Barr or Baldwin or McKinney are somehow newbies and never supported Paul?

Why does this group of naysayers want to make this all about one man, thus dooming the movement to die if he fails to obtain the nomination?

LISTEN to Dr. Paul - it's not about him - it's about the MESSAGE.

The message isn't Ron Paul, the message is FREEDOM.

get it now?

p.s - there were those who said Paul was a neo-con too. Had we listened to them, where would we be now. Do your homework people.

I will be voting for Ron Paul as a write-in.

Some posters here are making the mistake in logic of confusing individuals with the groups they belong to ("bigotry").

For example, the assumption that the Libertarian Party did not support Ron Paul is used to critique all the members.

The LP did support Ron Paul; you may have missed it because the press didn't cover it. Not only did the LP issue press releases about Ron Paul's candidacy, but its executive board invited Ron Paul to run on our ticket. What else can they do? Does it occur to anyone that an outright endorsement by the LP for Ron Paul (were it not made impossible by party by-laws) might have done more harm than good? How many GOP voters would have taken the LP's endorsement as a reason they should choose Ron Paul?

Surely no one expects the LP to disband and suggest all the members join the GOP. That would make the enemies of liberty very happy, but it wouldn't solve our political problem.

What about all their other candidates? When the dominant parties consistently nominate freedom-robbers, the LP is there nationwide to make sure freedom-defenders are on the ballot. Shutting down and joining the GOP would be suicide for the freedom movement's biggest advocate.

The members themselves are the very backbone of this movement to elect Ron Paul and promote his ideas. We aren't limited by the same restrictions the Libertarian Party, itself, faces, so we have been more active and outspoken as indivdiuals.

I first heard about Ron Paul when he spoke at the California LP state convention a few years ago. LP members are the core of his national support. I even registered Republican in order to vote for him in the primary and walked two precincts talking to Republicans.

The man who created and started the "R3VOLution" logo sign campaign was one of our candidates for chair of the LP. At our convention, many members sported Ron Paul gear. At the California state convention, the parking lot was full of Ron Paul stickered cars. Ron Paul support was everywhere.

You can't say the LP members have not gotten behind Ron Paul. They have, and earlier than most, they started in 1988. I think it's safe to say that Ron Paul would not have had this successful campaign if he had not first been nominated by the LP in 1988. That campaign is the foundation for this one.

In short, posters here are both overestimating and underestimating what the LP as a party can do. It is not powerful enough to even get its candidates into the debates and critics want it to throw its support to Ron Paul in the GOP. It is dedicated to local, state and national political change, and critics want it to disband in order to join the GOP for one single presidential race.

The Libertarian Party is "the party of principle." We are here for the long haul. We will not quit. We serve to get the issues out. If the LP weren't here and you are shut out of the GOP, you'd have to threaten to join the Democrats. If you're unhappy with the Democrats, you'd have to threaten to join the Republicans. The party you left would get the wrong message about what it is you want.

The LP serves a very important function. Support for the LP is always support for freedom. No other party can say that.

There is no need to insult your fellow Ron Paul supporters by blaming those of us in the LP for a failure that more properly lies with some of those in the GOP. The LP isn't the party that is lying, cheating and stealing votes away from Ron Paul delegates.

I support the freedom-defenders who are willing to work within the GOP and in the Democrat party to bring about change. I'll do what I can to help prod them from the outside.

We should stop trying to pick fights with our allies.

IMissLiberty

Where were these people when we were money bombing, and pushing this agenda forward? They were hiding in a corner waiting to see how it would turn out. When Liberty needed American men to stand for her, where were these people? When Ron Paul was fighting for our Constitution in the seemingly weekly Republican debates, where was Bob Barr?

My allegiance is not to a third party, but to liberty, to America and to Ron Paul! I'm not saying I won't vote for them come this fall, but I'm saying that's a long way from now. We have a March in DC on July 12th, and another march into Minneapolis on Sept 1-2. We have our issues, be it the war, the money, the rule of law ... we can only support the man that inspired my pride in being an American, and a free man ... and that man is Ron Paul. Come November, I'm sure my conscience will guide me to make the best choice of the options available to me.

Until then I only have ears and eyes and a mind for the cause of Liberty led by Ron Paul.

Didn't those two parties splinter off of the Republicans because the Republicans didn't live up to their own platform?

This year, when they had Ron Paul, a man who would feel at home in either the Libertarian or Constitution Party, and whom BOTH WANTED TO BE THEIR CANDIDATE, you would think they would have had the good sense to come home and build the momentum of the freedom movement in the Republican Party.

I guess there are some in the leadership of minor parties who would rather be a big fish in a small pond than work for real reform in a major party.

I think I'll start my own party. Then I can be the boss.

Too bad.