Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

I know the odds of this happening are way out there, but what the hell, humor me...

So, the planets align, money keeps pooring in, blah blah blah, Ron Paul gets nominated for the repubs.
On the other side, everything goes as expected and Hillary gets the nomination.

What does this do to their respective bases?
Suddenly, the repubs are running an anti-war candidate and Hillary is the hawk?

Does the dems anti war base vote repub?
Does the current anyone but clinton camp, switch their entire tune?

I just think it would be an interesting, although highly improbable scenario...

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

Wouldnt be the first time in history though, would it? George Will said that conservatives are actually SUPPOSED to be anti-war.

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Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

The Neocons revert to their liberal democrat socialist roots and back Hillary but don't admit to it.

Conservatives, libertarians, and the xtian right back Paul.

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

It would be a strange race. You'd see more people cross aisles than any race in the past century and the percentage of people actually bothering to vote would likely jump 10-15% or more even.

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

Canis busted his $3.86 roll. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

I had that thing forever too. It was even at 13 recently.

As a liberal, it is hard for me to care about money enough to pay attention to something as boring as nlhe.

Oh yeah, I am gonna switch to republican to vote for Ron Paul, just to mess with the media.

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

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the xtian right back Paul

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I don't know about that. I suspect the Christian Right just wouldn't show up.

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

Hilary would run commercials of Paul's appearance on the Morton Downy Jr. show non stop and his support would die out faster than you can say massive government.

Re: Longshot Theoretical Question: Paul v Hillary
 

The republican establishment would back a third candidate in order to siphon votes away from Dr. Paul. There by ensuring neither candidate would get the needed 270 electoral votes giving the presidency to Hillary because of the Democratic control of Congress.

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the xtian right back Paul

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I don't know about that. I suspect the Christian Right just wouldn't show up.

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I think RP is in a great position to win the xtian right vote. First, his abortion position is very helpful with them, especially when running against people like Romney and Guiliani. The "get the govt off my back" feeling are actually fairly strong in this group. The last issue is that Ron Paul seems to be the "most likely to be sitting next to me in church" of the bunch (besides Huckabee probably).