Ron Paul 2012

In order to debate the resolution "Ron Paul is the most reasonble republican presidential canadate" we first need to establish what 'reasonable' is and what it is in context of Paul as a 'presidential canadate'. obviously because we are talking about the Republican Primary election, what would make a contender in that race the most 'reasonable' to pick is there ability to win the General election defeating incumbant president Barack Obama. Given our understanding of this ultimate fact that republicans should be considering going into caucuses next year to vote, the 'most reasonable' options to pick would not be Ron Paul. Even Rush Limbaugh on his talk radio show admitted that you do not want to pick the strongly conserviative that you as a republican would like the best but should rather just start out supporting the modorate canadate to sweep in the votes from not just your own side of the isle, but the conservative democrates as well. That best choice of a canadate could only be considered someone like Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman. I could go into details on how they are modorate if my oppoenent wishes but its a generally undisputed fact that they are except by Romeny himself these days so I will press on. Besides the issue of being able to gain conservite leaning democrates away from obama in order to defeate him, there is also the issue of resorces to campaign against the President. We all remember how well the president was at campaigning last election when he became presdient. My state Virgina has been considered a Red state for all my life until that election. after Obama won it they are now calling us a purple state that could swing either way. Obama is such a good campainer that he took Virgina. that say's a lot. the vote was not a close call between him and John Mcain last election so whoever is going to be taking him on this time is got to have serious skills and resorces to take on the president. one of those resorces to consider is money. here are some stats on both Paul and Romey . http://www.opensecrets.org...; . http://www.opensecrets.org...as you can see Mitt Romey has spent more money that Ron Paul has raised total througout his campain and he has more on hand that Paul has raised total. This is a huge edge that Romeny will have on Obama that Ron Paul will not. Paul only has 3 million on hand to start throwing at running againt obama in the general election while Romney will have 14 million on hand left. Huntsman has not raised near as much as Paul to Ron Pauls credit . http://www.opensecrets.org... but that does not make much a difference in hunstams case because he has access to and infinite amount of cash called 'calling dad' . http://www.nytimes.com... His billionair father is helping him campain so you cant really say huntsman is short on resorces. another factor to consider is that Romney, while an excellent debater, is also a succesfull busnessman. and busness experince is going to be the needed stats to campaign against Obama with such a focus on his failure with the economy this election and turning to supporting Job creators. Romeny has created many jobs in his careree on a very large level with several different industries, Staple the most often cited example of is success. In a nation thats plauged by a problem of a debt crisis of several trillion dollors, unable to create a budgets with surpluses to pay that debt off, you need someone with a history of knowing how to cut cost. and no one is a greater master at cutting cost and removing ineffeciencies than Mitt Romeny . http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com... So in short. ..1) Romney will out debate Obama in the General Election. ..2) Romeny can beat Obama dollor for dollar in the GE. ..3) Romenys record as a busnessman is going to outshine Obamas as President in terms of Job creation and fiscal budgeting smarts4) Romeny will be able to pull in modorate votes5) Romeny will not look weaker than Obama Mcain did as a shorter and much older man last election6) None of those things hold true for Ron Paul.