You get a unity ticket, two civil libertarians, two guys who want to stop the war, and a hard core of dedicated supporters from the far left to the mid right. The republicans laughed at Paul in the debates, so maybe he would be up for it. If Paul ran as an independant he would draw votes away from Obama, not McCain. Also if the entrenched power structure murdered Obama and blamed it on a black guy we would still have Ron Paul.
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