Ron Paul for President

From the Star Telegram:

By JOE STINEBAKER

Ron Paul is considering another run for president

HOUSTON -- Ron Paul, the iconoclastic nine-term congressman from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican.

Paul filed incorporation papers in Texas on Thursday to create a presidential exploratory committee that allows him and his supporters to collect money for a race. This will be Paul's second try for the White House; he was the Libertarian nominee in 1988.

This is the best news I have heard in quite awhile. The contenders on the Democrat side of the isle pretty much stand opposite of my core beliefs, and the Republican crew so far were not too much better on several issues. I was hoping Ron Paul would get into this race. At the minimum he will stir things up a bit, and there is the potential that folks are just about pissed off enough at the run of the mill Republicans that he has a chance at the nomination.

"This is going to be a grassroots American campaign," he said. "For us, it's either going to happen at the grassroots level or it's not."

Paul views the role of the federal government as limited to those duties laid out in the Constitution. As a result, he sometimes casts votes that appear to be t odds with his constituents and other Republicans.

If you want changes in your legislature, the place to get those changes is in the primaries. Ron Paul gets my full support.