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My gosh please dont leave us without any hope! You were the only voice of fiscal sence in the last election... Run, Ron, Run!!

Even Ron Paul would be a better President than the travesty we have now. Obama, with the help of Reed and Pelosi, has created a full blown depression in less than six weeks.

lovaeable liberal: His libertarian policies were proven CORRECT by the crisis, not discredited. The government meddled in the markets by giving Fannie and Freddie advantages that other competitors in their fields did not get. That resulted in them making loans that they would otherwise consider too risky. Now what companies were called out be all parts of the political spectrum as the center of this all? FANNIE AND FREDDIE.

He was proven right, and you need to do your homework. And doing your homework doesn't mean looking for ways to justify whatever beliefs you already hold.

franky, your an idiot! Free market? You can't blame the free market! We have not had a free market ever! You need to start blaming all the people who indulged in this mess and the government for creating these expansion and contractions. Get your facts straight before you post some supid remark!

No more Paultards? Oh well, we'll always have TruckNutz...

Ron Paul is the only Republican I could see voting for. Too bad, but I think he knows he belongs to a doomed Party.

Ron Paul is a great man, and the country needs more politicians like him. Republicans need to open their eyes to his principles and the general public needs to open their eyes to the legitimately good ideas of libertarianism.

Ron Paul...what I can say about him? Totally out to lunch and completely misguided are a couple of phrases that come to mind. Anyone see him on Bill Maher? What a nutjob–thank the heavenly Father that Ron Paul is not running the "recovery"–the man's views are wacky.

He can't run again.He'll be in a walker by then.

The media did play a role in not giving him the seriousness that he deserved and unfortunately Paul ran with the Reps who didn't give him credit either. Just watch like old man McCain treated him. It was despicable. He had a movement going and it was fascinating. I voted for him. If he looked and talked like Mitt Romney we would had him as President.

You seem to be a good man, but you're on the wrong side of the Law. It's time to fold up the tent. Amen.

I would LOVE for Dr. Paul to run again. But in 4 years he'll be pushing 80. I was hoping that he's beat out ALL of those FAKE Republicans in the primaries. But instead....we got McShame and his dumb dog pitbull with lipstick....McStalin.

No way in HELL I was voting for those two INSANE individuals!!!

So....B-Rock it was!

It's just as well, it's our time.

I know that Americans will be OPEN to listening to Ron Paul for the first time,someone,if not Ron Paul ,that loves this country and has common since will win the next election.

That this man tied for third place with a dingbat from the frozen tundra is an outrage. I don't blame him if he doesn't have the stomach to run.

The guy's too old to run again. He really made waves last year and I hope he inspired a new generation of libertarians. We need strong libertarians voicing their opinions to help our nation keep some level of fiscal responsibility.

Let's get this straight – the Republicans' top three choices for a run in 2012 are: 1. Latter-day Ken 2. Caribou Barbie 3. My crazy old uncle who rants against "the illuminati" every Thanksgiving.

If the economy improves even a little bit in the next few years, it ought to be a cake walk for Obama.

SMART man, unlike the rest of his GOP buddies who continue to be utterly clueless.

You mean he actually quit running for 2008 election? I thought he was still campaigning. LOL

Now that is really too bad.

I know how the media and many Americans like to deride Ron Paul and call him a wacko, but the reality is that his ideas and principles are actually praiseworthy.

Unfortunately, he just isn't telegenic and well spoken. Oh yes, how could I forget, he's not exactly an establishment guy...which is why he didn't have more success.

Paul is going to turn 77 during the 2012 campaign, he got into politics to defend the gold standard, and his libertarian economic ideas have been thoroughly discredited by the current crisis.
Who'd vote for him?
But there's someone who loves the simple ideas of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek, so we'll get to hear about Paul again and again as if he actually were a credible national political figure.

He isn't.

Ron.., you will be missed. You were one Republican that I 'trusted'.. You were honest and truthful.., a little blunt.., but, truthful. Mike in Montana

It would be nice to see Paul open up the debate in 2012. Besides he has been proven right on foreign and domestic policy in light of the economic collapse and the fact that we are now saying Iraq was too expensive and that we should now talk to people instead of bombing them. He has a lot of common sense that adheres to the "Golden Rule". He will be 77 years old, but he just might be the best in the field from either side of the aisle.

Aww, too bad! We need more crazy GOPpers running for POTUS. At least he made their debates entertaining; he wasn't one more guy trying to agree with W more.

Too bad, this is the only republican I would actually consider voting for.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha, yeah right. You Rethuglicans just don't get it. We don't want you anymore! Your like the annoying dog nobody wants. Taste my shoe!

Ron Paul is the only Republican I and a lot of people would vote for. The Republican Party made a mistake when they kept him out of their convention during this last election, and would be fools to not look at him more seriously.

Who cares? He got almost no votes or delegates. His supporters may be avid and devoted but they add up to next to nothing in numbers.

Hillary Clinton got 18 million votes – more than McCain (or technically Obama) so I could understand it being newsworthy if Hillary said she was not running. But Ron Paul – someone who did not even break double digits in most primaries? Who cares?

My political views are more in line with the Democratic Party, but I will say that this man makes a lot of sense. I applaud him for standing up for what he believes in.

Too bad. While I wouldn't vote for him, he's a legitimate and respectable candidate with a valid point of view.

And I BET he can pronounce nuclear.

Oh God, I hope he changes his mind....

I couldn't in good conscience represent any of the other potential 2012 candidates, except for maybe Sanford....

It's great that conservatives are starting to act like conservatives again, but they still don't have much credibility. Ron Paul is the only one who stuck to his principles and walked the walk. I just can't trust the others... and I'm not about to risk getting another Bush/fake conservative by blindly voting for the Republican.

He's all us liberty-minded Republicans have got. The very thought of having to choose from Romney, Jindal, Palin, Huckabee or the others makes me sick.....

May be best – the BHO Love Fest for the Democracy Challenged
won't be over by then ....

Truth be told Ron, I think you really do have an idea what the country will be like in four years.

this article is is a theometer...should I ..shouldn't I. .

What?

Don't you want to waste more of your deluded supporters' money and dreams with your doomed candidacies? What's the media going to do without your bat-guano crazy ideas?

You should have taken my advice during the primary season - you and Kucinich should have toured the country doing Lincoln-Douglas style debates and blown off the MSM that excluded you. I guess your unwillingness to consider new ideas resonates with about 1% of the voters!

GO AHEAD AND RUN MR. PAUL, choose limbaugh for your running mate, then we will see just how many hate groups we have.

A true American hero. Honest, principled, determined, humble, generous and intellegent. Dr. Ron Paul truly is a patriot and a modern day renaissance man. I'm not sure how many history books he will be written into but I will tell his story until I die. For the good of every American let's hope he decides to run and spread the message of freedom.

Unfortunate. He would make an incredible president.

2012 is a long way away, though. It's a bit premature to speculate the election when there's so much going south right now.

Why in the world is he a Republican? The Republicans hate the constitution, just look at the Patroit Act!

I'll never vote Republican, and probably never will, but the one thing I like about this guy is that he totally believes in the 10th amendment: Our country is based on Federalism (federal and state gov'ts share power), and not Centralism (federal gov't holds unchecked absolute power over the People/States).

Bush moved us toward Centralism, so I'm hoping that Obama moves us back toward federalism and lets the states work out a lot of the issues on their own. I truly wish both Dems and Repubs would stop cherry picking the US Constitution, and just respect the entire document.

Thanks for all you continue to do for our country, Dr. Paul. We heart you!

We need a third party, but not a "republican" third party.

I voted for Obama, but, it would have been a hard choice if he were the Republican nominee. I like a lot of what he has to say. I also don't think Obama wants to spen this much money, I, think Bush and the Republicans left this country in such bad shape that it just may not be fixable. I for the life of me don't understand why anyone would have wanted this job after Bush and his crew. Because they left us in disastrous proportions. I think his salary from America should be cut off. I think he can keep the benefits and the CIA because it's a lot of crazy people out here, but, I don't think he nor anyone else that was apart of his administration should get a check.

Who?

I sure hope he runs again, I think this time around, his message cannot be ignored by the mainstream media and GOP. Furthermore, wouldn't you love to see Obama and Paul debate head on. Romney couldn't hold a candle to Paul against Obama, even if he is a bit more polished than Paul! Notice how the GOP is all sounded like Paul now, AFTER the loss. It is a shame because Paul could have given the GOP a bit more creditability on fiscal conservationism unlike McCain. Obama is not going to be able to pull this country out of the depression, so get ready for 2012 battle, who ever the GOP nomination is.

please think about running again Paul.
one day America will wake up and you will be needed.

Ron, I voted for you... in the primary, but I didn't swear my allegiance to the RNC so I don't think my vote counted.
Then I couldn't vote for you in the election because you weren't on my ballet in Ohio. I voted for Nader instead cause I don't like Barack or McCain.
I WANT REAL CHANGE!!!

" I hardly can visualize what the country is going to be like then."

...you're not kidding there!

Never say never.

However, we hope he does, since he's the only one who was right about the economy, and he was unfairly marginalized by the media.

His age would not be a problem either since he is in excellent health, and he is very conscious of it, being a physician.

And he's the only hope to save the GOP at this point. Hopefully the GOP will come to its senses and realize that.

Rep Paul has some good ideas and some bad ones too. But right now we need something different, cause Obama isn't changing anything. The democrats are justifying their large spending and earmark bills using the reason...the Republicans did it, its was there mess. Unfortunately, both Republicans and Democrats have allowed spending to go uncheck. During the Bush years I'm sure both parties only had a few hours to read 1000+ pages of budget requests before voting on them. The Democrats could of spoke up then, but they wanted their pork too. This is really silly, we need to balance the budget, if you can't afford to spend it, don't. Democrats and Republicans have ruined this country and no one President deserves the entire blame. But die hard liberals and conservatives just want to blame the other party instead of realizing that their own party is also to blame.

We need Ron Paul in our government! Mr. Paul is strong, intelligent, and speaks to the great conservative issues with tolerance.

He should run against Rush Limbaugh if that fat fellow decides to go for it.

Please run! We need healthy, intelligent people in politics now more than ever. Besides, with the repugnicans killing themselves off, we'll be left with a mature contest.

Ron Paul's call for isolationism is completely unrealistic, the 1950's are over Congressman.

It seems that Mr Steele, Romney,Paul & even Limbaugh have at least one helpful idea each. Why not suggesr it to our Pres. instead of hoping that he fail?
Don´t they realize that if the Pres. fails, it meant the recovery package didn´t work. If it fact that happens, the Countries debt will be to big to crawl out of, and Obama will be out of office.The result of this would mean, perhaps, we will have a new REPUBLICAN Pres. and I see no republican in the near future capable or willing to take on that very very large task. The old saying goes," Pay now or pay more later"
Be careful what you wish for Republicans............

I supported Mr. Paul in the primaries season, and while he is not perfect, I found he had, our of the rest of that field of candidates, the most well thought out plans and logic.

My one major grip with him was that his attacks on the federal reserve were well-intentioned and warranted, but his proposed solution - to replace it with the gold standard - was, and is, not feasible. A better solution would be a return to something akin to the Greenbacks Lincoln had issued - interest-free, government issued currency.

NO RON-

Common sense, respect for the Constitution, economic and historical knowledge have no place in the oval office these days.

I wish the media would have allowed the message of freedom, liberty, personal responsibility, and of the CONSTITUTION to ring free in the last election.

After all, he and his advisors are the only presidential campaign that told us our monetary policy was in for a downturn and the gov't was the source of our problems...

Too bad we as Americans are uneducated about our our country and history, all we want now is to be taken care of from cradle to grave, not have to work for anything, and buy things on credit.

I bet the media won't post his speech at CPAC.

They just are thrilled that Rush was blowing hard.

Where is this man's family? He should be enjoying life not running wasting money trying to run for president he's tooooo old.

They are all a bunch of Losers!

After two defeats, why would a sane man run for a third time. He won't do any better.

This man is a waste of time and money.

We need a third party. He seems to be the strongest of any third party candidates. I hope someone steps up. Now is the time.

Sorry Paul, you are way too old to play coy.

Please do not run again I am sicking of hearing people calling in your name on C-SPAN when you had no chance in the world of winning.

Why do Libertarians persist in running on the ReTHUGlican ticket? Do they want to hammer home the point that the only difference between them is that ReTHUGlicans don't like to smoke Boo and are afraid of sex that they don't have to pay for?

This country needs Ron Paul... there would certainly be NO PORK in a bill and "we the people" would get an honest leader.

the only viable canidate, as a wacko liberal commie pinko, even I would vote for this man, he represents real change

Ron Paul is the voice of reason in this country. No pomp. No loud, silly rants. Just good old fashioned constitutional common sense. No wonder the Repubs ignore him.

Please run, Dr. Paul. The '08 campaign was an amazing lesson to me and so many Americans who had lost sight of the principles that made America great (once). We will need you even more after 4 years of socialism under Obama.

Democrats- after your messiah, Obama, let's you down by not ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and actually expanding the American empire around the world, check out the voice of reason, Ron Paul. Freedom unites us all. O=W

Gee, CNN, aren't you asking the man questions about a year too late? SEEING AS HOW YOU AND THE REST OF THE MEDIA VIRTUALLY IGNORED RON PAUL DURING HIS CAMPAIGN TO BECOME THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE!

I think Ron Paul is the only Republican who i think really cares about the people all people.

If more Americans listened to Congressman Paul, then things would have been much better off in this country.

He was one of the few that warned of an economic downsize and collapse, and many members of the media still drown him out.

I will always be a RP supporter and a defender of the Constitution.

I didn't vote for Paul, but I'm convinced that he was the only person in the contest who sees the problems of this country in their proper light.

Good old lie-to-your-face Obama is killing this country.

Oh darn. The intellect of the entire Republican field of candidates cut in half by one announcement.

He's just a little old

Say you want a revolution....

I predict that Rush Limbaugh will not support Ron Paul. I say we start a collection to buy Rush a "manzier" or "bra",will all the gyrating he has been doing lately, it can't be healthy for him to jumping up and down without any support..notice Rush's upper torso?...I say "let's buy Rush some support...a "bra" for Rush.....

Our County needs Ron Paul now more than ever. Please Ron reconsider, your message is beginning to gain traction. Who if not Dr. Paul will fight to have this nation's return to the principles of Freedom and Liberty for all? Certainly not Rush Limbo….

Now that's a genuine "mavericky gentleman" who stood up against Iraq war! Too bad his ideas did not sit well with both the GOPs and the Dems.

the guys who could'nt even get the votes to be a worthy of president,always pretend to have all the answers.an this guy even agrees with rush.

That's too bad. Although, I voted for President Obama, I can clearly see why Ron Paul would make a fine president.

It is too bad, that the GOP has this wonderful, brilliant and FAIR man and that he is not one of their "stars"!

Ron Paul will remain the Local Hero here in Austin, Texas!

He is the only Politician worth listening to...

He knows what he is talking about and has no hidden agendas.

I hope he changes his mind. Ron Paul is not only the most honest person in Washington he's our only hope.

Come back as a Libertarian! The ONE thing this country needs more than anything right now is an alternative to the one party system of the DNC-RNC clubhouse.

I wish he would run again – he looks like Ian McKellan. Then if he were elected, he would have a great actor as his stand-in.

good . now maybe all these anti-american "ron paul patriots "
will shut up.

Another book, is coming...

Of course not, Ron. You don't want a country suffering from major crisis dumped in your lap, you want to put into that state yourself!

I just wish we could get rid of him in Texas. Anyone else want him?

Thank Godness, the man is old as dirt!

Ron Paul: the ONLY Republican in Congress I have any respect for.

Non-hypocrite, walks the walk while he talks the talk. The last legitimate man on the right wing.

I fundamentally disagree with him, but at least he stands FOR something instead of perpetually AGAINST everything.

If he does run, then I know who to bet against, LOL!! Good lord, these conservatives suck, they all suck...even their own boy Rush is calling them out, one by one. They are done, their identity is finished...

Look at where your free market went, you have no idea what you want...

Good ideas voiced by a kooky messenger.

If the Libertarians would find common ground with fiscal conservatives of the GOP – a viable movement could exist.

The left always howls how Bush created more terrorits than we killed. Obama is creating more "conservatives" than existed BEFORE he was elected.

Thank the Lord!