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I think Ron Paul's message definitely has a future. I am right there with him when it comes to civil liberties and the overreach in foreign policy. But, you have to admit, the fact that he didn't run in the GE shows that he personally was more interested in keeping his job in Congress than in taking the opportunity to talk about some of those issues on the national stage. It was when someone started to run against him in the primary that he stopped campaigning and diverted his attention back to his Congressional race. Then we have Bob Barr, who is a libertarian in name only....when in Congress, he voted for the Patriot Act, Iraq War, and pretty much everything he now claims to oppose.
Ultimately, I guess I'm even more of a cynic than you third party folks. Running the most powerful bureacracy in the world is an inherently corrupting process, if you want to focus on the negative side of it. I don't see the motives of people like Paul and Barr as being necessarily more "pure" than those of Obama or McCain...they are just doing the same shit, to coin a phrase, from a smaller platform.