First of all, I’m shocked that a Ron Paul thread got less than 100 posts.
Secondly, I’ve been thinking about it, and there is indeed a way Ron Paul could become the next POTUS (or come darn close and become a legend). Things have to break right and there are a lot of ifs:
1. He needs to come close to 10% of the vote in the GOP primary to establish relevance.
2. The GOP needs to nominate a ticket of Rudy Giuliani/Mike Huckabee thinking that a southern baptist minister would take some of the taint off of Rudy. What it would really do is give every segment of the GOP a reason to hate the ticket. The dominant social conservative wing will hate Rudy for being a pro-choice morally challenged candidate. The libertarian wing will reject a nanny state serial tax raiser.
3. The DNC nominates Hillary Clinton as expected. She has the highest negative rating of any candidate in either party. People may not know politics or public policy but grown adults know a phoney when they see one.
4. He needs to run on the Libertarian Party ticket, something that up until now he swears he won’t do.
5. He needs to have a VP running mate who is charismatic and eloquent and can explain their position to the electorate at large.
If this happens, I think that Ron can pick off segments from both the GOP and the DNC...
*The pro-lifers on the right
*The Iraq war opponents on the left
*The libertarians in the GOP who hate Huckabee
*Everybody who hates Hillary
There is a chance. Thoughts?