Rand Paul As A Potential Anti-Dick Cheney

Judging from the comments in posts below about a Romney-Rand Paul ticket, many libertarians are against such a ticket. I think this is ignoring recent history.

A rambling president with no strong principles coupled with a vice-president with strong principles can result in a very powerful vice-president, for good or bad. Most recently, the George Bush-Dick Cheney administration can serve as an example. Cheney did not take the vice-presidency to be GW's lap dog. He took it to run policy (for evil purposes though it might have been)

Since Mitt Romney blows in the wind on almost any issue, a strong principled, libertarian oriented vice-president could accomplish a lot. He could be a sort of anti-Dick Cheney, a man who could reorient the country back toward freedom and, also, away from foreign entanglements.

Rand Paul would not be a Joe Biden or Al Gore type vice-president, relegated to attending funerals of second tier global leaders. A Mitt Romney-Rand Paul administration would get real interesting real fast.

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