Its not only Ron Paul, Romneys’ people tossed no one a bone.
Nothing to the Newt people, nothing to the Santorum people, nothing to the Bachmann or Cain people, nothing to the Perry supporters, etc.
All Romney had to do get the paul people on board was repudiate the NDAA, say he was for full audit of the Fed, F Bernake, and maybe say RP would get a position in his Admn.
For a few million votes that is all he would have to have done.
Think about it.
... but: nope. Far more important, evidently, to stick it in just a little bit further, so far as those icky, icky socons and evangelicals were concerned.
You'd think someone Mittens' age would have learned, long before now: Decisions. Have. Consequences.
Paul is too extreme to appoint to any normal Republican administration, but auditing the fed and opposing NDAA would have helped. But we know why that would never happen. The same big money interests that wanted Romney nominated are all for the Fed, unaccountable federal police power, the degradation of human life, the abolition of Christianity, a borderless world and a huge big spending federal government larding out goodies to connected business interests.
Because Santorum and Newt aren't on board with the entire GOPe agenda they weren't getting any bones either.
And worst of all, the people who foisted Romney on us don't even care that he lost. Obama is just as much a globalist as he is.
Whoever wins, we lose.