Could he make things more difficult for the major republican candidates due to disaffection with the party by libertarian leaning republicans?
"Without question the most Constitutionally bent and driven member of the US congress, Representative Ron Paul, has opened an exploratory committee by filing to judge his prospects for the 2008 race."
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Dr. Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul, MD (born August 20, 1935), a physician and Texas politician, is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from his state's 14th Congressional District. (map) He was the 1988 Libertarian Party presidential nominee. He was first elected to Congress as a Republican in the 22nd District in the spring of 1976, when the incumbent Congressman resigned, but he was narrowly defeated in the November election. He served again from 1979 to 1985. In 1984, he ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John G. Tower, but the nomination easily went to his conservative colleague Phil Gramm of College Station. Paul also supported term limits for congressmen at the time. Paul likened himself in that Senate campaign to his hero, the late "Mr. Republican" Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
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