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Originally Posted by joshgirls
you know the republican field is so weak, & the base so open to new leadership that his purity of message may actually give him a shot.  |
Here is the problem with that. . . Ron Paul doesn't want to be president. You can tell just by how he campaigns. It is easy to be Ron Paul and have all the answers and make it all seems so easy. It is not so easy to be president and then have to carry those promises out.
Obama is finding that out first hand. He made a lot of promises and is now finding out that making good on them is not so easy. If somehow Paul made it to the white house he would have to deal with the house and senate and they really wouldn't be willing to play along.
But back to why he doesn't want to be president. It is simple. Money. Paul doesn't want to take any big corporate money and he doesn't want to finance his campaign the way the crooked politicians do. That is noble, but not realistic. If you want to run for president and be able to compete you need 600 million or more (estimates say that Obama will have 1 billion dollars for his campaign in 2012). The only way to do that is let the machine work for you and he is unwilling to do so.
If he really wanted to be president he could just let the machine work for him and get the money, get elected then simply not give in to the powers that be that helped finance him when they come calling. He could even use that as a campaign slogan for his re-election and let everyone know how he turned special interests away.
I think the guy has some great ideas, but I think he is far more interested in selling books than he is actually being president. It isn't a coincidence that each of the last three presidential elections that he has run in he has also released a book that same year.