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What Paul could do would be entirely dependent on whether his candicacy generates coat-tails for down party candidates. If congress remains divided, he will be no more effective then obama.
even if he got the repubs in both chambers, he would still be limited by the fact repubs don't support some of his ideas, like ending the Fed & returning to gold.
He will also be limited because he does not have the charisma necessary to get congress to pass his agenda. Like Obama, i question whether he will be the leader of his party.
I think the budget would get balanced within his first term, assuming the economy is not knocked off its recovery by terrorism. Some of the dreams of killing the dept of education might actually come true. depends if dems use republican tactics in the senate to kill everything that happens there. most likely they will.
Obamacare would likely not be enforced, assuming it cant be repealed.
His isolationist foreign policy will be welcomed by our enemies, & hated by the europeans & countries that are freeloading off american foreign aid (cough, israel) I think many of the cold war troops, sitting in germany, korea for nothing, would wind down. I would hope the ridiculous military projects like missile defense, & building a new nuclear arsenal, will get killed. Depends on if Paul sticks to principle in the face of the defense lobby. as you can read i am projecting my hopes on him.
i would agree with dems that his policies will likely make the income gap even worse. He remains in support of free trade, & deregulating banks, so another round of wall street gambling/bubbles is likely.
i like him because my pet issue is a balanced budget. & he is radical enough to make the difficult decisions to fix the bleeding. I also like his isolationist foreign policy. But most likely his agenda will be limited by an uncooperative congress. Sadly its the congress that is the main problem with the government, not the executive.
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