Who would have been doing the laughing though? I've seen more here on FR deriding him [undeservedly] than I have elsewhere.
And imagine someone to the left of Obama on foreign policy.
Even so; why do you think the Congress is involved in Cabinet approvals? To act as a moderating influence against radicalism. (But he's right that we simply cannot afford to be "Team America, World Police".)
Paul couldn’t win a state-wide election, let alone a national one.
Apparently "ABO" really doesn't mean 'Anybody But Obama; I never swallowed that thinking (after 2008 I said I'd not vote for someone simply because "he's not the other guy") and it became clear talking to those who spouted it off that thy really meant something different: what they meant was "vote for the candidate we want you to vote for because he's not Obama."
Fact is Paul couldn’t win the GOP primary - the one where most conservatives vote. Paul won one state.
And you think he could have won a national election?
Pot legalized where you are is it?
:)
In the end it comes down to two candidates.
if it comes down to three and two of them are ours, we lose.
So we have a primary to hash and fight it out. To decide who we will send against their candidate. We agree to do our fighting against each other then and live with the results.
If a conservative takes his marbles and goes home pouting after this primary, he or she is just, putting it gently, politically stupid.