Rand Paul will NOT rule out running as Vice President

[Sal Featherstone]

Romney would not invite Rand onto the ticket unless there were going to be accompanying changes to the platform. The idea would be to attract Ron's voters and keep them fired up.

What if Romney agreed to:

1) Full audit of the Fed
2) Fire Bernanke and replace with Jim Grant
3) Bring troops from Afghanistan, Korea and Europe
4) Appoint Rand "budget cutter in chief" with the task of cutting 1 trillion per year

Would this be enough?

 

[Beitel]

I'm not sure. Ron Paul said himself on CNBC that he'd nominate Jim Grant, though.

Edit: Control the Fed, and you control everything. I don't see how we can sustain our empire, welfare state, and police state without the Fed monotizing everything and keeping interest rates artificially low. If we had real interest rates (~5%), interest rate payments would take up an even HUGER part of our budget.

 

[Sal Featherstone]

i agree it would be tough to get Romney to agree to reign in the Fed. that would be the toughest thing.

 

[economics102]

If Romney doesn't keep his promise, you better believe Rand Paul won't keep silent. Now that'll be REAL DRAMA.

Very true. Nothing could be more disastrous to a presidency than a public feud with the VP who represents the energized libertarian/conservative wing of your electorate.

Reminds me of that season of 24 where where President Wayne Palmer feuded with Vice President Daniels...

 

[HigherVision]

Compromising with the establishment is a horrible strategy for libertarians in my opinion. Look at the trajectory of the increase in support for Ron from '08 to now. In relatively short time our positions will be the most popular among voters so there's no need to water them down. The true blue, stick to my guns quality of Ron is what's attracting so many people to his campaign from a diverse array of backgrounds.

 

[lib3rtarian]

Before this gets whisked off to Hot Topics, let's stop for just a moment and think about this. Two years ago, Rand was an unknown eye doctor from Kentucky. Now he has a real shot at becoming Vice President of the United States and making a serious impact on this country.

What if part of the deal was a full audit of the Federal Reserve? What if part of the deal was appointing Rand to be in charge of cutting the budget? I mean SERIOUS cuts. It's worth at least discussing here rationally, without screams of "sellout!" or "defeatist!" Can we have a serious discussion about this?

A VP does not have the power to do any of this. If they make Rand a VP promising to do all this, get our votes in return and if they go back on their promises tomorrow, there is nothing we would be able to do.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Look at who is funding Romney's campaign. Now, do you really believe he would let Rand change the system?

 

[TruckinMike]

This thread needs to be deleted -- it serves no purpose --- and can only be harmful to the Ron Paul for PRESIDENT campaign.

TMike

PS-

---As God as my witness I will never again vote for the lessor of two evils, I will not ever vote for some Liberty thieving hack in the GOP. I refuse to vote for any more treasonous scum in the GOP ---

(even if Rand is VP)

 

[Dsylexic]

THIS IS CLASSIC COUNTER INTEL PSY OPS BY RAND. he is just confusing Mitt and making them lower their guard. HOLD everybody

 

[Rudeman]

All of this is assuming that Ron Paul isn't the nominee. So really it's presumptuous and hopefully we won't even need to consider such a scenario but I'll play along.

The VP has little power to do much so I don't really see the point of Ron Paul getting involved when he's fighting a battle of ideas and principle. He'd be better off leading the charge of getting more like minded individuals into Congress and maybe uniting coalitions to achieve certain achievements. Basically leading a Revolution.

Ultimately I think Rand Paul would be better off holding back and not getting tainted by Romney.

Really the only person to be VP for would be his father. If Ron Paul decides not to go for a 2nd term then Rand could carry on the torch (imagine 12 years of Paul, that should get us back on the right track).

 

[Cap]

Maybe, just maybe Rand is keeping the option open to run on his fathers ticket as VP. Have you thought about that?

 

[islather]

I think Ron is gonna win. But if not what about Romney/Rand and Ron in charge of the Fed.

 

[Jtorsella]

I would be interested depending on the situation.

 

[Patrick Henry]

I couldn't agree more.

A VP does not have the power to do any of this. If they make Rand a VP promising to do all this, get our votes in return and if they go back on their promises tomorrow, there is nothing we would be able to do.

 

[trey4sports]

I'm pretty sure Rand is just being accommodating and trying to stay above board. I don't believe he would honestly take the veep slot.

 

[FreeTraveler]

Rand's NOT going to get the VP slot, for the same reason Ron won't, and the same reason Ron wouldn't name Romney his VP. One three-named crazy and everything changes 180 degrees. Nobody's going to take that chance.

 

[Fredom101]

Once again, it's Ron Paul or NO ONE AT ALL! Hell no to a Romney/Rand scenario.

 

[moderate libertarian]

Why would any senator rule out hypothetical options about future?

Why should be this question a focus on this forum at present? It's a distraction.

 

[parocks]

The intrade odds right now are

87% Romney
3.4% Ron Paul

to win the Republican Nomination.

Some would say those numbers indicate that Romney has a chance to win.

Others might argue that it's more likely than not that Romney will be the nominee, based on those numbers.

So it's not folly to conjecture about what we would want Romney to give us to get our vote in the fall if Romney was to get the nomination.

 

[justinjj]

Romney/Rand is about as shitty as McCain/Palin. - I'm not voting for anyone but RON Paul.