Typically, a candidate who has little or nothing to lose and everything to gain has the power to speak their mind and to tell how they really feel without having to remain political and trying not to offend anyone.  When a dark horse candidate has an impact, that will usually get the front runners to take a look at what he or she is talking about and adjust their strategy to talk to those issues - mainly because they want the dark horse’s supporters for their own.  In 1992 it was Ross Perot and the focus he brought to the national deficit, in 2000 it was John McCain and campaign finance reform, in 2008, the dark horse candidate speaking his mind is Ron Paul.  But unlike those other election years, no one in the Republican Party seems to be notice dark horse Ron Paul’s core issues - reforming the U.S. monetary policy, reducing the power of the federal government, and withdrawing troops from Iraq.   Indeed, just a few nights ago the two Republican frontrunners, McCain and Romney, sparred over the notion that Romney supposedly supported a timetable for troop withdrawal, something that Romney strongly denied - he would like to keeps the troops in Iraq indefinitely.  With that in mind, why has Ron Paul’s success in the online and grassroots arena not translated at all into shifting the debate in the Republican primary?  It might be that Ron Paul’s message does not sit well with Republicans, at least the type of hard core Republicans that vote in the primaries.  An anti-war Republican with notions of changing the U.S. fiscal policy and actually reigning in spending and reducing the power of the federal government has no voice with the party faithful apparently.  Indeed, even some Republican leaning news channels have tried to exclude him from debates and have occasionally dropped him from the polls results entirely.  Not only do they not want Ron Paul, they don’t even want his supporters.  Perhaps it is time for him to change his party affiliation, and for all those who have supported him to do the same as well.  The one thing this country could use at the moment is a viable and strong third party that caters to issues that neither of the big two parties are focused on - a sound fiscal policy and reducing the size and power of the federal government.