even the people in the occupiy movement are ron paul supporters.f ron paul is an independent candidate, obama will get creamed. it is a similar situation -- the conventional wisdom was that charlie crist could run as an independent and you see what happens there. he did not split the republican votes. he split the democrat vote. marco rubio ran off with it and that he said he will not do it. but if he does, ron paul will either be president or the republican candidate will be president. on paul will take a lot of president obama's support. he will not hurt republicans. he will our president obama. host: texas rep, charlie, solace, will not seek reelection on friday, he announced. law or on in the peace he also writes -- gonzales has raised a decent sized some of that does not candidate the impending retirement. greensboro, north carolina. joseph on the independent line. caller: process is for taking my call. i believe we have come to a time in our history where we have two basic problems. the problem is that the two parties -- anyone who is elected