If the race for the nomination were to come down to Paul vs Romney (God forbid), I would vote for Paul. I would buy me a football helmet a size too small, pick up some Thorazine, chocolate flavored, dress in a dark blue Spandex uniform with a yellow cape, put on a hockey mask and head out to the streets to support him.
It is smart to pick up Paul’s ideas that are good and leave the rest by the wayside. Perry has excellent ideas, too.
Non-Interventionism is not Isolationism.
He's too damn old.
That high-intensity job calls for a younger, stronger person with a proven financial and economic background in business and/or government. Someone with proven conservative credentials...and one who knows how to pick his way among the minefields of national and international banking, the Fed, the budget, trade, the market, Wall Street, etal....not just a talker on same.
And why would he trade a cushy congressman's job for a politically dead-end cabinet post that is a magnet for intense criticism all the time?
Give the old boy a break.....he's lucky to last the length of the campaign without some Geritol or Jack Daniels or both....although I hear he's in pretty good shape for his age.
No matter...no one will be calling him Mr. Secretary next year or in the future.
Leni