**UPDATE** After serious consideration, Ralph Nader should be the concensus candidate for President 2008, of the R3VOLUTION

Guess I was ahead of the curve on this one. Damn good strategy in my opinion Dr. Paul!!! A new strategy I think will work is: Red States vote Baldwin-Blue States and others that CP did not qualify for vote Nader. If either candidate is polling higher than the other in a particular state-vote for that candidate. Could work. Read all the attack posts below they are funny! I bet many of the angry posters back then would have never believed that a RP/RN alliance would have ever happened. ***

If you told me 5 months ago that I would be advocating that the R3VOLUTION vote for Nader in 2008, I would have said no way and laughed in your face. After serious consideration though, he is the best candidate remaining, who's own platform matches a large percentage of ours. I know many here at the DP are reactionary or misinformed and when they hear the name Nader they imediately go to the, "He's for huge government," line. That's what I thought as well until I really examined his platform and saw that the Freedom Movement could accomplish most of the things we all want done with Nader as President.

1) Ralph Nader is not for "huge" government. He advocates ending the War On Drugs, pulling our troops out of Iraq for good and leaving the middle east altogether. What does that mean all you fiscal conservatives out there? Ding, ding, ding! That's right, money saved. As Comander In Chief, Nader could do all of the things listed above. We're talking a savings of billions if not trillions of dollars. People worry and say, "what about all of the socialist style programs that he wants to implement? Well, do you think the majority of those programs will pass the house and senate? Probably not and neither would most of Ron Pauls proposals like getting rid of the income tax. With a Nader Presidency all that would probably happen are the things we want done anyways! Also newly elected C4L chosen Ron Paul Republican congressmen and senators will be there to provide balance! Isn't this starting to sound logical?

2) Why not vote for Barr, Baldwin, McCain or Obama? Well, let's see........
a) Barr/Root - Do you really trust these guys? Is Barr a reformed ex-CIA neocon? Doesn't it seem like their prpose is to split the LP and the Freedom Movements vote in general? My answers are as follows, no, no, and yes. Barr has a terrible voting record when it comes to civil liberties. He worked for a shady intelligence agency and is hardly a true libertarian. We all Know Root is a wannabe neocon attacking Ron Paul for his stance concerning the war on terror.

b) Baldwin - Seems like a good guy but lacks any real political experience or name recognition needed to succeed in a Presidential race. I'd like to see him run for a lower position like congressman or senator. With experience under his belt he could be a great choice down the line!

c) I thought I would put McWar and Oblahblah together because they are just differen't sides of the same globalist coin. Obama, a candidate who has top advisors known to be pro New World Order advocates. A man who LIES and says that he never heard his preacher talk about anything conspiratorial during the 20 years he attended his church. Bullshit! McCain is Insane. Considered running as John Kerry's VP in 2004. Wants to keep the troops in Iraq for 100 years as long as the casualties are low. They will probably die of old age! Scarriest of all he wants to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb/bomb Iran! Both parties are corrupt at the core and Ralph Nader has always opposed the two party system duopoly.

3) Nader continues to and will continue to fight to change ballot access laws and debate criteria! This is what America needs most, to actually be a real democratic republic. Ron Paul has always said the SAME thing. Hey look, now we have three major planks that they both agree on. Ending both the war on drugs exiting Iraq, and ballot access. Sounding pretty good huh?

In closing, we as a Freedom Movement must decide on candidates by using LOGIC and REASONING and not by misinformed reactionary judgements that if researched turn out to be false or completely exagerated! We in the Freedom Movement need to stop all the bickering and in-fighting and maximize our votes worth come November. Remember, Nader has a lot of supporters out there! We can reach all these disaffected Democrats and hippy activists with our libertarian philosophy, hopefully bringing them over to the right a little more fiscally. We will not change anything in this country until there is some form of compromise between competing philosophies. Many if not all of these groups support non-interventionist military positions and protection of civil liberties. We all must agree to disagree on some of the more sensitive political and social ideologies. States rights was put in the Constitution because the founders realized that everyone will not agree with everyone all the time. Even Dr. Paul, who is VERY pro-life, would not support a federal ban on abortion. Compromise is not a dirty word. It is a productive peaceful process that unites opposing ideologies in hope. This is not about voting for the lesser of two evils at all. Nader is NOT evil. He is just a man with his own philosophical beliefs on what a government should be, just like Ron Paul has his. We must recognize common ground and not let idelogical rigidity be our downfall. PEACE