Paul, Nader Urge Voters To Go Third Party
 Wednesday, September 10th, 2008  by Connie T.

Republican Congressman Ron Paul and Independent / Green Party candidate Ralph Nader were just on CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer discussing the U.S. presidential election. Paul continues to have many thousands of supporters that are turning to him for advice on the 2008 election, and although in the past Paul said that Barack Obama was the candidate with the closest opinions to his own, he is now saying he cannot endorse either Obama or John McCain.

Paul told Wolf that the two candidates are essentially the same, in that the things that really need to be changed in the country are going undiscussed.

Nader brought up that Paul, himself, Libertarian candidate Bob Barr, and Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin all sat down together and discussed four major things that desperately need attention that just aren't being discussed by the Democrats and Republicans: foreign policy; revising FISA; revising or repealing the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, and eliminating torture; and the government in and of itself that the Federal Reserve has become, with no oversight from Congress and the will and capability to do as they please with our national deficit.

There's no transcript or video of the sitdown with Paul and Nader as of yet, but when we can get ahold of it we'll link to it and/or post it for you. The major message that the two wanted to relay was that the system is designed against third party candidates, and it isn't right. They aren't allowed into the debates, the media doesn't cover them, and the American public doesn't get a fraction of the wealth of information about these candidates as they do those from the two main parties.

Paul isn't endorsing Nader, either, or any specific third party (as of yet, at least).

UPDATE: Here's the video!

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