Ron Paul

Rudy Giuliani won 66% of the vote at the Passaic County GOP convention today. Mitt Romney came in second with 17%.: Getty Images Photo
In New Jersey's first open convention of the 2008 campaign, the Passaic County Regular Republican Organization has endorsed Rudy Giulani for President.

Giuliani won 66% of the vote, garnering 77 out of the 117 votes cast. Mitt Romney came in second with 19 votes, followed by John McCain and Fred Thompson with seven each, Ron Paul with four and Mike Huckabee with three. Sam Brownback, Duncan Hunter, and Tom Tancredo failed to receive any votes.

U.S. Rep. Ron PaulWhen U.S. Rep. Ron Paul said in a GOP presidential debate Sunday that American troops should never have gone into Iraq, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney objected, asking Paul if he had forgotten about the terrorist attacks on 9-11.

 Paul’s local supporters shook their heads in bewilderment over Romney's interjection.

"Most of the Republicans are trying to get us to believe we went to Iraq to hunt Al-Qaeda," says Ken Biretta of Ewing Township, spokesman for the grassroots network, Mercer County Ron Paul 2008 Meet-up Group. "They neglect to mention that Al-Qaeda was not aligned with Saddam Hussein. In fact, they were opposed to Saddam."

George DeCarlo of Berkeley Heights, chair of the State Green Party, says it’s likely Princeton graduate and public advocate Ralph Nader will again be the Green Party’s nominee for president in 2008, with former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia as the party’s nominee for vice president.

Ron Paul for President supporters, left to right - Jeff Olen of East Brunswick, Mike Mitrosky of Old Bridge,: Mike Bucaro of Pennington, Ken and Elizabeth Bireta of Ewing, Kaitlyn and Tamara Bireta of Ewing, and Matt Bireta of West Palm Beach, Fl.
Presidential candidate Ron Paul calls himself a Constitutionalist, who’s apt to invoke a negative whenever the conversation turns to taxes, and for that the Texas lawmaker is known on Capitol Hill as Dr. No.

The fact that he was one of only a handful of Republicans in the U.S. House to live up to his moniker when he resisted giving President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq simply gilds the Paul package in the minds of his supporters.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, a ten-term Congressman from Texas, has picked up his first New Jersey endorsement: Dr. Murray Sabrin, the 1997 Libertarian candidate for Governor. The 71-year-old physician was elected to Congress in a 1976 special election, lost the 1976 general election, won a 1978 rematch, and gave up his seat to run unsuccessfully (against Phil Gramm) for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in 1984. He won .5% of the vote as the Libertarian candidate for President in 1988, and returned to Congress in 1996. Sabrin, a Ramapo College Professor, received 114,172 votes (5%) in the '97 gubernatorial race, and finished fourth in the 2000 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Paul supported Sabrin in each of his races.