From CNSNews.com:

“If he [Paul] is not the nominee, he will still have in his hands an enormous network of communities and individuals who are very interested in supporting, if not him personally, his policy issues,” said Carvin. “If he is able to tap into that network, he may be able to create the libertarian version of Howard Dean’s Democracy for America or MoveOn.org.”

Democracy for America is an influential Political Action Committee (PAC) created by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean out of the remnants of the network of supporters he built during his 2004 presidential bid. MoveOn.org is the influential liberal political group originally founded to advocate “moving on” past the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Professor Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that Ron Paul will remain an influential figure in the 2008 race even if he is not nominated.

“The most important question of all is, does Ron Paul end up supporting the Republican nominee or not? And if he does, does he do so with enthusiasm? We are talking about millions of votes that will potentially be added or subtracted from the GOP ticket,” he said.

Sabato noted that it is the raw passion Ron Paul has managed to awake in his supporters that composes this strength that may live beyond his candidacy.

“Ron Paul has supporters willing to show some skin,” he said. “He has intense support among a segment of the population. They are doing something that people are ordinarily loathed to do, which is part with their own money.”

Aside from the enticing possibility of an Austro-libertarian MoveOn.org, elections expert Larry Sabato believes that the Ron Paul Revolution is far larger (”millions”) than anybody else in the mainstream media has admitted. But I don’t think the Ron Paul Revolution needs to wait until after the elections to evolve into a libertarian MoveOn.org; we’re going to need them to fight for Paul at a brokered GOP convention in September, which I believe will occur.