Who would you vote for in this matchup?

who would you vote for?


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Ermmmm, tricky. One's the worst President since Franklin Pierce and the other one is a financially insane isolationist, so.... neither!
 
As a non-American, it would be in my interest to have someone isolationistic rather than imperialist. Though they are both terrible men bad for Americans.
 
Paul. He'd be so much less popular that he and his veep could be impeached, or at worst defeated for re-election.
 
Paul.

Bush would be incredibly bad, but not in any sort of morbidly hilarious way; he's bad in a "Jesus Fucking Christ this guy is a moron" way. Ron Paul would do terrible things to the USA, but c'mon, it might be pretty funny, in a sort of "laughing at the end of the world" way.
 
I suppose the sheer fun of watching a Ron Paul presidency wins out.

If we're resetting to (say) 2000 then Ron Paul at the least would not work towards a full-throated security state + trillions down the sinkhole of Iraq & Afghanistan + if he cut taxes he'd also cut DoD funding. He certainly wouldn't bail out the banks either.

Of course I can't imagine I'd like his other policies (he's surprisingly socially conservative for a professed libertarian) and I don't think the gold standard and getting rid of the Fed is terribly sensible, but on balance….
 
I'd look at the way the wind was blowing internationally. Bush would be a moderate disaster if there was a quiet international scene (i.e. nothing on the scale of 9/11 or the clusterfucks he presided over) but an absolutely unfathomably bad disaster if there was a volatile world stage. Paul, on the other hand, would keep America out of any danger overseas (but probably to the point that the US becomes eclipsed) while wreaking horrific damage to the US domestically.

So I'll take the man who would be terrible, but might not be a complete disaster, over the man who would definitely be absolutely dreadful.
 
I'd vote for Paul, as I'm already a supporter of his. I don't think he'd be that bad. While I don't want to see any of his plans implemented all the way, I think I could count on Congress to block him from enacting some of his more extreme stuff.

Ideally he'd be able to cut defense spending and get rid of the patriot act, while having to compromise with Congress to get much else done.
 
Anyone but Ron Paul, so my vote is for Bush. Even if it is to choose between Ron Paul and Rod Blagojevich, I won't ever go for Ron Paul. The worst-ever politician on earth.
 
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