10 Reasons Why Ron Paul Should be Vice President

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[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

10 Reasons Why Ron Paul Should be Vice President

August 16, 2007

If Ron Paul fails to win the Republican nomination, it may seem absurd to consider Ron Paul as the vice presidential running mate to any of the other Republican presidential candidates. But before you think so, we have brainstormed this here at our office and found that Ron Paul would make the best choice for Vice President.

The major item of concern in choosing a vice presidential running mate is to select someone that can help you win and to find someone whose strength is your weakness. In 2004, John Kerry chose John Edwards to help him carry the south (that did not happen). In 2000, George W. Bush who lacked foreign policy experience chose Dick Cheney. In 1996, an old and tired Bob Dole chose former football player Jack Kemp.

There is very little evidence to suggest that a Vice President will help you win the nomination. Edwards did not help Kerry carry the south. Bush won by the slimmest of margins in Florida but that was not attributed to Dick Cheney, and Bob Dole still seemed old despite Jack Kemp being on his ticket.

The reality is that Ron Paul could change all of that if he was second in line to a Rudy Giuliani or a Mitt Romney, etc... And here is our reasons for saying so.

1. Ron Paul has the largest online army of every presidential candidate in either party and choosing him as your running mate would allow you to tap into that. Imagine all the free bloggers and YouTube videos posted for you.
2. Ron Paul has the largest grassroots organization through meetup of all the candidates and they will invariably support you for free as they are doing for Ron Paul right now.
3. Imagine all the money that can be saved from having a free online presence and an already established grassroots organization. Use that money to win the battleground states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
4. Ron Paul's antiwar message resonates with the majority of voters and has been able to attract Independents and Democrats into the party.
5. Ron Paul still has the visions of Ronald Reagan: small government, less taxes, etc... and falls in line with true conservatism.
6. Republican voters will not care that you selected Ron Paul as a running mate and not vote for you but you may sway other voters to come into the big tent.

7. By selecting Ron Paul as a vice presidential running mate, you will keep him from running as an Independent third party candidate that spoils a close race against the eventual Democratic nominee. There have been many instances of libertarians running for office and spoiling a win for the Republican party in an attempt to move the party platform.
8. Ron Paul can be no worse than Dick Cheney.
9. Disinterested voters for the cause of liberty who have been fed up with the process are choosing to support Ron Paul and will be excited with Ron Paul on your ticket. Nobody ever got excited about John Edwards, Dick Cheney, or Jack Kemp the way they would with Ron Paul.
10. Young voters, 18-29, make up approximately 17% of the voters in a presidential election. They tend to support the third party candidate at a rate of 2:1 and they favor the Democratic candidate over any other demographic. Look at Ralph Nader and John Kerry voters in 2004. Ron Paul will be able to cause a shift in the young voters. Causing a shift in young voters would have its greatest impact if voter turnout was increased which would be likely to happen.

So it is our contention that if Ron Paul does not win the presidential nomination, the eventual winner whether it is Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson, or Mitt Romney; they should select Ron Paul for the maximum likelihood of winning.

[ejonesie22]

He never show up. He’d hide because of the glare...

[dirtboy]

What do you meanM our shrimp vely yum yum...

Except a Ron Paul spring roll has both shrimp and pork. Yuck.

[ejonesie22]

With big heaping spoonfuls of BS...

[Yorlik803]

1. He can enlist the people from the planet Zoltron to help beat the terrorists.
2. the wearing of tin foil hats will become fashionable.
3. He is strak raving mad, that should be enough to make sure nobody assinates the sitting president.

[DakotaRed]

I only need one reason to never support or vote for Ron Paul. We are at war currently with a very brutal enemy and all he can say about it is, “We marched in, we can march back out!”

No thanks.

[Revelation 911]

Ron Paul voted against the Patriot Act repeatedly

GOOD !

eschelon isnt enough for you ?

[billbears]

the eventual winner whether it is Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson, or Mitt Romney; they should select Ron Paul for the maximum likelihood of winning.

I highly doubt he would accept it. With one of those as the leader? I wouldn't. And as much as some don't want to admit it, it's a four way race right now. St. Rudy, the Suit, the Actor, and Ron Paul. St. Rudy is doing his best to shoot himself in the foot and frankly he's disturbing. And that New Yorkers voted for this man tells me all about why I would never visit New York. Romney is going to spend all his money buying straw polls and Fred has waited too late.

Frankly I think it's looking quite good for Ron Paul. The message of liberty is powerful

[scannell]

This fails to take into consideration that there is no way Paul could accept the nomination and maintain an ounce of credibility with the few people that support him.

[chesty_puller]

eschelon isnt enough for you ?

Not yet, way too slow.

[BlackElk]

I can't speak for Drango but I can speak for me. Reasons why paleoPaulie is and always will be unacceptable for public office, much less POTUS or VPOTUS:

1. PaleoPaulie is a paleopantywaist and unfit to have command of our military when he won't use it and use it aggressively to kill our enemies and break their things.

2. He is Al Qaeda's leading apologist in the 2008 POTUS race and today's equivalent of what the late great Jeanne Kirkpatrick rightfully called a San Francisco Democrat who blames America first (last and always).

3. He actually was not satisfied that the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon were sufficient to justify war against the Islamofascisti. He wants us to hold off until they hit us again on our turf again (and again and again and....)

4. He is a rank hypocrite who demands earmarks for the shrimpin' business, for Galveston trolleys, for Galveston buses. for Galveston nursing scholarships, knowing that his pork will be enacted along with everyone else's pork while cosmetically voting no on the bill "out of principle." (no less).

5. PaleoPaulie poses as a pro-lifer and files pro-life legislation as photo ops while denying that the feds have any jurisdiction over the subject, a rather important subject for such hypocrisy. Very good at posing for pro-life holy pictures while refusing to do anything effective in defense of the babies.

6. He is an antiwar and therefore antiAmerican congresscritter.

7. El Ron Paulie is as crazy as a bedbug.

8. PaleoPaulie, surrender monkey extraordinaire, is apparently trying to sell our country down the river while posing as a conservative. Conservatives do NOT adopt the foreign policy of George McGovern as does paleoPaulie whose default position for our nation is on our knees begging our enemies for forgiveness.

9. PaleoPaulie is a pal of Dennis Cuckoocinich and shares his foreign policy as well. Both should be dropped into Tora Bora so that the Islamofascisti can do something worthwhile for a change.

10. America is a pretty decent nation that deserves to live. Putting a cowardly idiot like paleoPaulie within a heartbeat of the White House will just inspire our enemies as to how gullible and brainless we can be. We won't elect him and they won't be so inspired.

11. Pearl Harbor happened. 9/11 happened. We ain't going back to the notions of Neville Chamberlain.

12. No one but no one who associates with the paranoid likes of Alex Jones and the Truthers gets any respect whatsoever in the GOP or in America nor should they. AND the Birchers and Objectivists will NOT get to preside over the corpse of our party or of our nation.

[CommerceComet]

we have brainstormed this here at our office

I know the first rule of brainstorming is that there are no stupid ideas. However, your office has just provided an exception to that rule.

[elhombrelibre]

Yeah, they’ve really tried to take over the site.

[mhx]

Yeah, I mean, I practically never see any opposition to Ron Paul on here.

[elhombrelibre]

Actually, Ron Paul is worse than you think.

[elhombrelibre]

Well, you do, as you know. And with him representing about 1% of America, that’s as it should be. His enthusiastic supporters think the tail will wag the dog, that the al Qaeda will lie down with the Isolationist, and that dope smokers and Nazis, Holocaust deniers and former Buchananites, will all sing kumbya together and achieve a weirdos Utopia. They’re quite a hoot.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I really take exception to your #8. I think Dick Cheney is fantastic and he could do a superb job in any office. In trying to kick Dick Cheney you make yourself look stupid.

I didn't create this list, bub.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Re-read the thread for a minute and just shake your head in astonishment at all the knee-jerk responses.

I'd never thought I'd see the day when a pro-Constitution presidential candidate gets trashed, ironically on the very website that supports the Constitution.

[jrooney]

BlackElk, thank you for the ping. Great post! I agree and enjoyed reading it.

"Both should be dropped into Tora Bora so that the Islamofascisti can do something worthwhile for a change."

Snicker*

[ejonesie22]

I think, in all seriousness, the issues that are at the heart of any distaste for Ron Paul have precious little to do with the Constitution and are not in any form "knee jerk", just repetitive in the face of repetitive threads about RP...

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

What would a Ron Paul Administration look like?