Steve Gordon reports the Libertarian National Committee just adopted a resolution encouraging Ron Paul to seek the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. I must say this was hardly unexpected, especially given the last mailing I received from the LNC. What was unexpected, however, is that the LNC has authorized the use of their database application for the Ron paul campaign in NH.

As a dues paying of the LP in good standing, I am fully in support of both resolutions. My preferred candidate in the LP is Steve Kubby anyways and he is on record for supporting Paul as well. My take from fellow rank and file LP members is that they overhwelming support Paul. While it is true I don't see eye to eye with Paul on every issue(abortion, for example), he is a Life member of the LP and falls within the paleo-libertarian sphere. He is a legitimate libertarian, notwithstanding the criticisms by a minority in the blogosphere.

Of course, I have made no secret my desire for Ron Paul to run on a 3rd party Libertarian Ticket. The GOP has long ago given up any valid claim as a proper vehicle for limited government, libertarian ideas(Paul, notwithstanding). An increasingly shrinking GOP has pushed out the Goldwater wing for Neocon war mongers, in your face, bible totting cultural warriors, and sappy big government "compassionate" spenders. Independents now outnumber the self-identified republicans. If the GOP follows through with their apparent suicidal pact with Mike Huckabee, the future relevance of the GOP will be only further mitigated. As Ron Paul has demonstrated, even the MSM is waking up from their redstate/bluestate stupor and are realizing that libertarians are woefully underrepresented in government. It's time for our under-representing 2 party stranglehold to end. It is my hope that Ron Paul will do the right thing and make his 3rd party run as a Libertarian, in the process eviscerating the GOP, and serving as a wake-up call to the Democratic party that Clintonian triangulation of the GOP on social issues, war, the police state, and corporatism will have consequences. In participating on Ron Paul Forums, I've noticed quite a bit of formerly liberal democrats who are converting to libertarianism.