The Hill News

DAYTON, Tenn. â€" William Jennings Bryan, who last ran for president in the 1908 election, announced that he was going to run for president as a Tea Party Republican in 2012.

Bryan promises to run against the TARP bailout, New York industrialists, government spending, the Federal Reserve and evolution and in favor of policies that help the “common” man.

Asked why he was running as a Republican instead of as a Democrat â€" where three times he won that party’s nomination for president, in 1896, 1904 and again in 1908 â€" Bryan said: “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

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