Of course, Ron Paul’s principles have little to do with the republican party. I think he stayed with the Republican party because he is trying to show that the Republican party no longer stands for the principles it claims.

Those are interesting tactics you bring up, and probably potentially effective. Interestingly enough Ron Paul has told his supporters to support ANY third party candidate… I cannot support and of the others because I don’t agree with their platforms. I will probably write-in Ron Paul knowing that my vote will not even be counted.

However, I think there is a higher and more long term goal than just trying to get a third party candidate elected. After all, it certainly can’t be the principle of a third party candidate alone that contains the virtue. Just having three parties will not fix American politics. What we need is a good political platform, and that doesn’t have anything to do with the number of parties… there can me one, two, three, or a million parties. So long as there is a good political platform to vote for and the majority of Americans understand the virtues of that platform.

What we need to do is educate people on politics and economics. I truly believe that. I don’t think we can just run a popularity contest for a third party candidate. We need to get out there and cause people to question their political assumptions.

You see… in the American project, it is the responsibility of each citizen to educate themselves about the Constitution and to defend their Constitutional liberties from those who would strip them away. But you won’t hear about that in the MSM or in public schools. In fact you’ll rarely hear of it in even the coffee houses and open-mic nights of the ‘intellectuals’. We all need to start standing in the political gap.

Arthur Eisss last blog post..Confiscation Through Inflation