According to the Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary (subscription only) Saul Anuzis, the Michigan GOP Chair who famously wanted Ron Paul barred from all GOP debates, is campaigning for the RNC chairmanship:
On the Republican side, the jockeying to replace current GOP Chairman Mike Duncan has begun. Mr. Duncan has been a competent administrator [...]

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I didn’t attend the press conference(s) today, but I’ve read reports from a variety of sources (with varying points of view). Here are some random observations:

Did the McCain campaign really think that having Phil Gramm ask Ron Paul to endorse McCain was a good idea? (From what I can gather it was the dirty tactics [...]

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In his Evans-Novak Political Report, Robert Novak - who has the pulse of the Conservative movement - examines potential problems for McCain. Novak (and co-writer Tim Carney) see problems for McCain with libertarian and evangelical factions of the conservative movement:

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who garnered significant chunks of the Republican primary electorate in the [...]

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Today’s Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary (subscription only) has a write up of Dr. Paul’s announcement that he is formally ending the Presidential campaign and forming a new organization to continue his Campaign for Liberty:
Phase 2 of the “Ron Paul Revolution” begins this summer in Minneapolis, where Mr. Paul announced he will host his [...]

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I missed Singh’s non-victory “victory party” last night, but my thoughts are summed up well by Richard Spencer who was there: “I don’t know what the Ellmore victory party was like, but I seriously doubt youth and talk of limiting government and getting out of Iraq were on display.”
As I noted last night, Singh [...]

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Today’s the day to vote for Amit Singh.
I support him… so does Ron Paul.
And so do three respected conservatives who are not from the Ron Paul wing of the Republican Party. Patrick Ruffini, Jon Henke and Soren Dayton issued the following endorsement yesterday:
Tomorrow, the editors of The Next Right will be casting our three [...]

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There has been so much attention given to the Bob Barr campaign that it hasn’t left much oxygen in the room for the other Ron Paul supporter running for president.  Chuck Baldwin won the nomination to run for the Constitution Party at their national convention in Kansas City.  He beat back a challenge from perennial [...]

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An interesting anecdote by RonPaulBlog.com contributor Dan McCarthy, regarding an article he wrote in a recent issue of the The American Conservative:
In my TAC piece, I quoted a local paper, the Arlington Connection, speculating that Ellmore lost his first bid for the Republican nomination in ‘06 because he reached out too far beyond the GOP [...]

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