McCain/Paul ‘08
There are some days that I just don’t care who wins the Presidency come November. Sure, I’m going to vote McCain but that doesn’t mean I have faith in him to not screw up this country. I only have faith that he won’t screw up this country as much as Obama will (and that isn’t saying much).
So today I began pondering what would be the Republican “dream ticket” comparable to the Obama/(2x)Clinton dream ticket when it hit me. A McCain/Paul ticket would be a winner. Don’t believe me? Just look at the polls. Ron Paul got 15% of the votes in Oregon the other day. In an election that is going to be pretty close, McCain is going to need every vote he can muster to win and Paul might have those votes.
So lets just go along with this idea that there would be a McCain/Paul ticket in November and by some act of God, they actually won the election. If this happened what would our country be like?
Well, in my eyes, Paul’s libertarian views mixed with McCain’s somewhat liberal views would create an almost conservative policy.
For example, on immigration McCain basically wants amnesty and Paul doesn’t, hopefully something could be reached that would lean to a more conservative side.
Another reason I want to see them in office together would be that Paul would be a loose canon. While McCain seems to be constantly wanting to please the other side and not offend them, Paul never did care what people thought. He always spoke his mind and even would call his opponents dead wrong.
Plus they are both old and them together would remind me of the movie “Grumpy Old Men.” I would love to see them both constantly arguing with eachother over policy in public and then there would be times when McCain would have to physically restrain Paul from attacking a reporter when they asked a stupid question. Can’t you see that happening?
You can’t tell me that you don’t laugh when you imagine them both running the country.
Anyways, that thought brought a smile to my face in an election season wrought with constant disappointments. What VP choices (on either side) have brought smiles to your faces?
