What If Instead Of McCain & Obama, Ron Paul Won The GOP Nomination & Presidency In 2008?

You should probably go to bed since you’re too high op

I think he would have been treated exactly like Trump because the establishment would have viewed him as an outsider, and a threat to their grift.

People on this board voted for Mike Huckabee and Rick fricking Santorum over Ron Paul. We deserve everything that is coming.

Super landslide for Obama

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Where would we be as a country?

Better than now?

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We would have been out of Iraq and Afghanistan far quicker. Putin would have moved on Crimea sooner. We wouldn't have had the ACA nor the big spending package Obama pushed to try overcoming the recession.

We may have had an actual budget in 2008 & 2009 instead of running the government on CR's, but it's doubtful (at the very least there would have been budgets proposed from the WH).

What may have happened is that after a solid decade of a Republican being in the White House, the GOP doesn't take the House back in 2010, thus giving the Dems greater control at least in the House, maybe the Senate as well.

I also think the press would have framed Rand as they did Bush: a bit of a bumbling fool. If so, this would have been pushed hard leading into 2012 and likely insured a Democrat win (whether Hillary or Obama) along with a solidly Democrat Congress. This, then would usher in the spending missed during Rand's term, possibly even worse as the Democrats would have felt frustration at being held back for so long.

I think our debt might not be as high as it is now, but the differences wouldn't be enough to matter and would quickly equal out.