Politics

Ron Paul Running Mates: A Lament

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Yesterday Brian Doherty blogged about the eternal recurrence of the third party. Meanwhile over at RonPaul.com, they're running a running mate poll for 2012. (The poll doesn't specify whether we are talking about a major party run or a third party run.)

The list is pretty dispiriting, simply as a catalog of prominent libertarian/libertarian-friendly/libertarian-tolerant politicos (although several on the list may not even meet those basic criteria).

For a fun bonus activity, tally up the number of truthers and/or birthers on the list in the comments section.

If Ron Paul runs for President in 2012, who should be his running mate?


  • Adam Kokesh

  • Rand Paul
  • Michael Badnarik
  • John McCain
  • Lew Rockwell
  • Michele Bachmann
  • Mitt Romney
  • Alan Grayson
  • Michael Bloomberg
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • Jim DeMint
  • Pat Buchanan
  • Jesse Ventura
  • Sarah Palin
  • Gary Johnson
  • Mel Watt
  • Mark Sanford
  • Glenn Beck
  • Mike Huckabee
  • Alex Jones
  • Dennis Kucinich
  • Andrew Napolitano
  • Chuck Hagel
  • Wayne Allyn Root
  • Lou Dobbs
  • Other (specify below)
  • Peter Schiff
  • Chuck Baldwin

FYI: At the moment, Andrew Napolitano and Peter Schiff are the front runners.