Not eactly. It is a 2 party system as far as the majority of Americans are concerned, unfortunately. Ron Paul realizes this and runs now as a Republican. But he is definitely a Libertarian. He is also our best hope, but sadly again, he won't get the nod.
He won't get the nod because he REFUSES to run independent!!! Make me mad. He claims the party should be a vehicle to the position and nothing more. Great, I believe that too, but when you have to run in a primary against super right crazy agenda republicreeps, you don't stand a chance of them picking you as their guy.
He needs to run independent. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat, but to be honest, I can't sell out the rest of the nation, Bill of Righs, and Constitution in general over just the 2A and vote for the other clowns.
Basically, for me, it boils down to either voting Obama out in leiu of Paul, but if Paul isn't the guy, my vote is for Obama. On the other hand, I also believe in voting out incumbenets in the house and senate, and I beleive in keeping them divided too. If you have an all Democrat house and president, you get gun control and a bunch of other trash. If you get all republican, you give up everything to big business and not only does the public get to pay for it, they get made to feel the crisis is their fault and that taking any public funds is bad (while banks get all the public funds).
The goverment is broken, and we'd be best off to keep it divided at this point. Then we can hope they will agree on the important things and the ideological things will be just too damn hard to get through and so they'll fall by the wayside.
So for me, it is Ron Paul and Democrat congress critters. Or Obama and republican congress critters. But I can't live with myself picking the better of two evils with no actual plan as to what I want out of governement.
Ron Paul says some crazy things too. Like killing social security and VA disability checks. I depend on those, and I'd still vote for him because I know that it would be impossible for him to pass any of that with a divided house and senate.
Finally, to be honest, Obama hasn't been the anti gun president I thought he would be. I voted for him myself, heck, I even wrote him a letter asking him to run after the speech he delivered at the DNC. I knew he wouldn't be able to pass another ban like the last one given the climate, and he seemed fresh, but he let a lot of us down. He's better than Bush, at least I don't feel like throwing up when I see his picture or hear him talk or feel bad about America because a word salad fall out of his mouth every time it opens, but I still feel like I got shafted.
I think it is time to give Ron Paul a chance. Also, Obama has a VERY high chance of being re-elected given his competition. Bear that in mind, mark my word, you put him up against these clowns and he will make mincemeat out of them. The man is the best orator since Adolph Hitler and Winston Churchhill combined, and maybe better. But you run Ron Paul against him, and all the folks Obama has done wrong by or let down will likely vote for Paul. But you pick the Grinch, and every single one will vote for Obama, hands down. The Democrats, they hate that man worse than they hate being let down by their own.
Get all your republibuddies to primary Ron Paul in, and I gurantee you a LOT of folks that would ordinarily vote for Obama would vote for Paul. Pick a loose cannon, idiot, or clown and you'll get "four more years". Be wise, we could have someone who has a record that he stands by (good and wrong) and isn't a sellout.
This could be a big swing race. See, my extended family is about 300. Almost all said they would vote for Paul, but if it comes down to Obama vs. Gingrich, they'll almost unanimously vote for Obama.
Just my 2 cents, but I think there is much more at stake than 2A this time. Much more. It just seems to me if we get Paul, we might be able to have our cake and eat it too. They guy said so much that he would support 2A, end the drug war, end the mideast wars, and kill the "un-patriot" act. To me, if the man follows his words, is THE president this country needs. Not to mention he is very open to working with both parties equally.
We could have a government that works again. Makes me want to sign up as a republicreep just so I can vote in the primaries.