Orville_third
Banned
1. Well, perhaps his online ads weren't as widespread as Paul's- or as colorful.1. Being active on the internet does not always lead to activity at the polls, Gary Johnson was very active on the internet, I expected him to do better than he did and was surprised he got as few votes as he did, sadly I think the same would have happened to Paul.
3. Once he was exposed by both Romney and Obama for his 500 million in earmarks he wrote between 2009-2011, it would weaken Paul's case I believe and cause more to become disillusioned with him.
5. Paul is not going to pull many Republican or Democrat votes in the 2012 election. The majority of any votes he gained would be from the 10 million people who decided not to vote in 2012, who had voted in 2008. These were people that didn't like the offered candidates and chose to stay home. He would also probably absorb the Constitution Party votes. Note if this 10 million all voted for him, then yes he'd get a higher percentage of the votes, but ultimately would change nothing.
6. War always favors the incumbent party, so if there is a war going on, I mean a serious war not just War on Terrorism which is horribly vague like War on Drugs, then you turn the needle back in Obama's favor. If there is a 9/11 attack by muslim extremists though it would largely destroy Obama's credibility and his appeasement to such. If that happened more would jump to Romney than Paul though I believe, because Paul favors many of the same policies Obama has in foreign affairs.
3. That assumes Romney or Obama would target him. There is one case where a third party candidate was mostly ignored- and won. (Jesse Ventura.)
5. There are the anti-war Democrats- though they might prefer Jill Stein or Roseanne Barr. The Religious Right Constitutionalists might think of Paul as too liberal. Other than that, you're fine.
6. One need only remember the final major party debate and how Obama and Romney stuck close together on many major issues. THEN see Johnson's views on foreign policy. Notice a lot of difference?