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Posted: 3/20/2013 8:47:06 PM EST
Republican presidential candidates (L-R) former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), Texas Governor Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman attend the Republican Party presidential candidates debate as Gingrich speaks in Sioux City, Iowa, December 15, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:08:28 PM EST
FILE - This Feb. 7, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaking in Golden Valley, Minn. Ron Paul is exiting the political stage but his legions of rabble-rousing followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the two-time Republican presidential candidate have quietly taken over key-state GOP organizations, ensuring future fights with the GOP’s establishment and laying the groundwork for a future presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:08:28 PM EST
FILE - This Feb. 18, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas waiting backstage as he prepares to speak at CenturyLink Arena in Boise, Idaho. Ron Paul is exiting the political stage but his legions of rabble-rousing followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the two-time Republican presidential candidate have quietly taken over key-state GOP organizations, ensuring future fights with the GOP’s establishment and laying the groundwork for a future presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:08:28 PM EST
FILE - This Jan. 19, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaking at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. Ron Paul is exiting the political stage but his legions of rabble-rousing followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the two-time Republican presidential candidate have quietly taken over key-state GOP organizations, ensuring future fights with the GOP’s establishment and laying the groundwork for a future presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:08:28 PM EST
FILE - This Dec. 28, 2011 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas waiting to be introduced during a campaign stop at the Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. Ron Paul is exiting the political stage but his legions of rabble-rousing followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the two-time Republican presidential candidate have quietly taken over key-state GOP organizations, ensuring future fights with the GOP’s establishment and laying the groundwork for a future presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, Fiel)
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Posted: 1/15/2013 2:08:28 PM EST
FILE - This Feb. 1, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaking in Las Vegas. Ron Paul is exiting the political stage but his legions of rabble-rousing followers insist they are only getting started. Libertarian-leaning loyalists of the two-time Republican presidential candidate have quietly taken over key-state GOP organizations, ensuring future fights with the GOP’s establishment and laying the groundwork for a future presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
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Posted: 10/16/2012 9:48:30 AM EST
In this Oct. 2, 2012 photo, former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo speaks out in favor supporting Amendment 64 to legalize marijuana in Colorado during a news conference at the Capitol in Denver. Joe Megyesy coordinator for the campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol listens at left. Appealing to Western individualism and a mistrust of federal government, activists have lined up some prominent conservatives as natural allies to make pot legal, from one-time presidential hopefuls Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul to Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 8/27/2012 10:21:58 AM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks during a rally in Tampa, Florida August 26, 2012. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Posted: 8/27/2012 10:21:58 AM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks during a rally in Tampa, Florida August 26, 2012. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Posted: 8/27/2012 10:21:58 AM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) face is seen on a video monitor as a woman speaks during a rally at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, August 26, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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Posted: 8/26/2012 9:22:29 PM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks during a rally in Tampa, Florida August 26, 2012. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Posted: 8/26/2012 9:22:29 PM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks during a rally in Tampa, Florida August 26, 2012. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Posted: 8/26/2012 9:22:29 PM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) face is seen on a video monitor as a woman speaks during a rally at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, August 26, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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Posted: 7/8/2012 7:28:41 PM EST
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks on behalf of his father, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, after the Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H. Something's going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself - that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism. But what looms are far larger questions about whether an America fed up with government bans and government bailouts - with government, period - is seeing a return to its libertarian roots. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Posted: 7/8/2012 7:28:41 PM EST
FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 file photo, Mackenzie DeRoyter of Spokane, Wash., center, and Hanna McCoy of Hawaii cheer for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul while he speaks at the Student Union Building in Moscow, Idaho. Something's going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself - that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism. But what looms are far larger questions about whether an America fed up with government bans and government bailouts - with government, period - is seeing a return to its libertarian roots. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins)
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Posted: 7/8/2012 7:28:41 PM EST
In this Saturday, May 5, 2012 photo, supporters of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul chant his name during the Nevada Republican Party Convention in Sparks, Nev. Standing second right is Cindy Lake, acting chair of the Clark County Republican Party and a delegate to the upcoming Republican National Convention. Something's going on in America this election year: a renaissance of an ideal as old as the nation itself - that live-and-let-live, get-out-of-my-business, individualism vs. paternalism dogma that is the hallmark of libertarianism. But what looms are far larger questions about whether an America fed up with government bans and government bailouts - with government, period - is seeing a return to its libertarian roots. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Cathleen Allison)
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Posted: 5/14/2012 3:19:54 PM EST
U.S. Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) waves before the start of the Republican presidential candidates debate in Mesa, Arizona, in this February 22, 2012, file photo. Paul announced that he will no longer actively campaign in new states, May 14, 2012. REUTERS/Laura Segall/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
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Posted: 5/13/2012 12:32:12 PM EST
Mack McDowell, retired after 30 years in the US Army, sits in his study with framed battalion patches from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Columbia, South Carolina March 25, 2012. In South Carolina's January primary, McDowell, the one-time Reagan supporter voted for Ron Paul "because of his unchanging stand against overseas involvement." In November, McDowell plans to vote for the candidate least likely to wage "knee-jerk reaction wars." REUTERS/Mary Ann Chastain (UNITED STATES - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS SOCIETY)
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Posted: 5/6/2012 8:30:46 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks to his supporters following his loss in the Maine caucus to Mitt Romney, in Portland, Maine. With Mitt Romney's nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters wrested control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said as the two-day convention neared its end Sunday, May 6, 2012. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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Posted: 3/24/2012 11:37:41 AM EST
A street car passes by a sign for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul in New Orleans, Louisiana March 24, 2012. Voters around the state went to the polls for the Republican Party primary and other state and local races. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
