Obama has been vetted, Paul has not. A Paul campaign isn't going to be able to say anything about Obama that hasn't already been said. A general election between the two would get real ugly. They'd dig up all Ron Paul's old newsletters where he's said some things that sound really bad. Also you'd have a team of the best democrats in the country explaining why Paul's policies would be a disaster. Paul would get destroyed.
Outside some terrible event happening, Obama has this election in the bag.
Ron Paul never said anything remotely close to what you falsely accuse him off in his newsletters. It has been debunked many times before by individuals who have interacted with Ron Paul.
The newsletter had changed hands and although Ron Paul did not write them said he had a 'moral" obligation to pay attention to something with his name on it. NOT ONE member of Congress has said he is racist. In fact they say the opposite.
How would Ron Paul be destroyed in a debate? Did you miss the 2008 republican debates? What could they possible bring up?
Ron Paul was right about the housing crisis from day one. He tried to pass a bill in Congress to reverse it.
Ron Paul was right about the reasons for the attack on 9/11 from day one. He also warned us ahead of time that we would be attacked if we continued our current foreign policies in the Middle East. In 2003 Ron Paul was right when he mentioned Osama is probably in Pakistan.
When Osama was finally killed (props to Obama) it was by using a small unit exactly like Ron Paul told us to do in 2001 when he mentioned letters or marque and reprisals.
"A "letter of marque and reprisal" would involve permission to cross an international border to effect a reprisal (take some action against an attack or injury) authorized by an issuing jurisdiction to conduct reprisal operations outside its borders."
"The attacks were defined as acts of "air piracy" and the
Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 was introduced, which would have granted the president the authority to use letters of marque and reprisal against the specific terrorists, instead of warring against a foreign state. The terrorists were compared to pirates in that they are difficult to fight by traditional military means. Congressman Paul also advocated the use of letters of marque to address the issue of Somali pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden on April 15, 2009. However, the bills Congressman Paul introduced were not enacted into law."