For your theory to hold true, Rand would have to be Romney's VP, or be given a power position in his potential cabinet. I seriously doubt that the Establishment Pubes want anything to do with RPs folks, most of whom won't be bothering to support Romney.
I seriously doubt that the Establishment Pubes want anything to do with RPs folks
I think it's likely that that the Establishment Pukes will try to throw them some kind of bone. Unless they can rip 'Bama a major hemorrhage between now and November, they'll need the damn votes.
But Rand Paul is not on anybody's short list and that list is depressing reading. It's like being orphaned for the holidays by your folks and you get to pick which drunk uncle you're gonna stay with. Come to think of it, I'd rather hang out with my drunk uncle that spend the summer with someone like Rob Portman.
#68. To: Cynicom, randge, Jethro tull (#35)(Edited)
I am not naive enough to think that voting for a Romney/Paul ticket will further the cause. It might set up Rand for a run for Pres in the future but it will have to be without my vote.
It appears as if the pubs are melding into two blocs, Romney/Pauls, the other the Bush cabal.
Doesn't look like that to me. More like two oldtime blocs -- Romney's and the Bush cabal's -- and a new party wing arising for the Ron Paul Revolution.
That would be an experience a lot like a good tar and feathering: if it weren't for the honor and recognition it brings, most people would pass on going there.
Yeah, it only gets interesting when some dumb son of a bitch picks a VP candidate who can see Russia from her front porch, does a Thomas Eagleton, or any sort of mistake that creates genuine and lasting entertainment.
McGovern may of been behind the senator from Missouri 1000 % as he first claimed, but the momentum from that mis-step brought him far less of a voter percentage then that; to say the least.
Oh well, Nixon's the one took a new meaning then it did in the 1968 campaign during the Watergate scandal. This was all good entertainment. I even got to watch the Watergate hearings during class instead of doing classwork.