Ron Paul will be elected President of the United States in 2008.

I'm very disappointed, Libertarian, that you didn't even read my opening argument. You said: "If you're forgetting, John McCain is old. He refuses to release his medical records and has constantly avoided the questions with postponements. It is very likely that John McCain, the oldest candidate in all of US history to be nominated, will (unfortunately) die before the convention. " But in defining the terms for this debate, I clearly said: "I want to debate someone who thinks that, assuming of course that John McCain will live through the election at least, Ron Paul will be elected. " Clearly, you should never have accepted this debate. However, I'll address what you said anyway, just for the sake of argument. "McCain will die and the nomination will be opened back up. " McCain may have had cancer, but not everyone who has cancer ends up dying from it, especially if they have already survived it once. Skin cancer is one of, if not the, most common type of cancer, and hundreds of thousands of people have lived healthy lives after beating it. As for not publishing his medical records, why would he? He isn't required to, and the only people asking him to are people like you who want him dead. I don't think I would publish all my personal records in those circumstances either. I don't think Paul published his records, although of course he IS a doctor (lol) so I guess he might know better than the American Public. Hmm, I wonder if John McCain has a good doctor? Oh yeah, and he also survived five years of torture in the Hanoi Hilton. I know he must be really stressed out, what with all the competition he's facing for the republican nomination from Mr. Paul, but I'm pretty sure he can make it through another three months at least. All in all, the chances seem much greater that a crazy Ron Paul zealot will assassinate him. So, assuming that happens. .. "Huckabee is a loony tune who once had a chance at winning but annoyed the party by staying in so long" Ron Paul has stayed in much longer, and I don't think Huckabee is commonly perceived as being that much more Loony than he is. Either way, I believe the Huck still has more delegates, and he has Chuck Norris. "Romney has proved to be a quitter by quitting so early and the party will not nominate a quitter against a fighter like Hillary or Obama. " Wait, so if you quit too early, you're a quitter, if you stay in until you're mathematically eliminated, then you stayed too long and you're selfish, but if you stay in long after the majority of the delegates have voted for other candidates, you win? That logic may seem sound to you, but I think you might be affected by a little thing called the "self-serving bias". Anyway, Romney still has more delegates than Paul, so the convention would be inclined to choose him first. "Giuliani will not get nominated because of his poor political strategies. " Ok, maybe, but he STILL got way more votes than Dr. Paul in the states, and was at one point considered a front runner. Paul has never gotten that much support, anywhere. "Thompson will be the only formidable candidate against Paul. " Um, no. Thompson was never a formidable opponent against anyone. I do believe, though, that he would still win over Paul just through name recognition. "But the Libertarian Party will use all its resources to get Paul in office. " Well, if the Libertarian party has so many "resources" then why didn't Ron run as a registered Libertarian? He would have a much better chance of getting on the Ballot that way. Truth is, though, that he didn't, because he knew would still lose to a Republican, which demonstrates why he will never get the nomination over a prominent party member. "The Republican Party wants and needs a moderate Republican, which is proved by the McCain nomination. So they'll pick Ron Paul, who is great on fiscal conservativeness. Paul will be able to argue that they need a fiscal conservative during a recession that can transcend party lines. " The thing is that Ron Paul isn't really that moderate; he and his supporters are very radical. In fact, the only reason he still has any support is because many conservatives are afraid to go with a moderate like McCain. However, this support is so negligible that even here in the North Carolina primary, which really had no impact on the election and thus had a ridiculously low turnout, Paul didn't even come close to winning any delegates. If he can't even drum up support among people that supposedly share most of his beliefs, how is he ever going to "transcend party lines"? "He will be nominated. And can move onto to compete against the Republican nominee. " I'll assume you meant to say the Democratic nominee. .. I don't think you're THAT crazy. Anyway, to win this argument you have to actually explain how he will BEAT the democratic nominee as well. So, in conclusion, my opponent has GIVEN ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that RP can be elected without McCain's death. Even if McCain dies, he hasn't given adequate justification why Paul would be chosen before the two other candidates that have more delegates than him. And even if Paul gets the nomination, my opponent has not given any reasons why RP would beat the democrats in the general election. Although I admit this topic was one-sided from the beginning, I did accept the possibility that there might be some esoteric way I was unaware of that RP could become the president.