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When i say this. but ron paul was basically a lifelong protest candidate for national office. the platform for his views. the support and fund-raising prowess that he could demonstrate to his own party. giving his views more seeming viability within the republican party. hoping to nudge the party in that direction. there was reasons for him to run as a protest candidate. but no one, including ron paul, i think, ever thought that he was ever anything but a protest candidate, that he was ever actually going to be president. running was its own end. he held on to that house seat from texas for de...

The support and fund-raising prowess that he could demonstrate to his own party. giving his views more seeming viability within the republican party. hoping to nudge the party in that direction. there was reasons for him to run as a protest candidate. but no one, including ron paul, i think, ever thought that he was ever anything but a protest candidate, that he was ever actually going to be president. running was its own end. he held on to that house seat from texas for decades. you know, casting protest votes and passing zero legislation and every four years woe run for president in order to...

And see if you can change "i want" to "oh, yes i can!" >> bret: that technical difficulty, take you back to my interview with italy' former prime minister, sylvio berlusconi. when he stepped down as prime minister in 2011, but in recent months surged back to prominence in italy after capturing more than 29% of the vote in the last election in late february. his center right block slightly trailed the center left candidate. but neither man has a majority because a protest candidate, a comedian, took a surprising 25% of the vote. in the months since, the squabbling parties have not been able to ...

Chair of wisconsin, mike tate, admits the party has lost control of the message. evident in this audio recording of a meeting he had with volunteers. >> it's not party money. it's individual candidate money. a lot of the money is from the third party groups so we can't talk to at all. >> it's the future of american politics. super-pacs and other third parties will be able to define what an election is about. >> because minds are already made up, this election will be all about motivating supporters to the polls. yesterday, walker faced only a protest candidate, the g.o.p. motivated 626,000 wis...

Get traction as a protest candidate. >> i will say, there's this woman who's one of my most regular letters to the editor writers. i hear from her all the time, all week long. she can't not write a letter to the editor. she's a democratic activist and she's involved in democratic politics in her town. and the most shocking thing i've heard from her this year is she has switched from her democratic registration to undeclared, solely so she can vote for ron paul because she cares so much about getting out of afghanistan. >> wow. >> i don't know if she speaks for anybody but herself but she's rea...