Bobert, my thoughts exactly on Obama/Richardson. I think you've pegged that one as the best choice for Obama, if he gets the nomination.

As for a unity ticket with Ron Paul, that, I think, would be like oil and water.Those attracted to Paul's antiwar stance should realize that his libertarian views include laizzes faire economics, which the majority of Americans (thankfully) don't support, and his libertarian non-interventionist foreign policy echos back to the days of the America First committees and the old guard senate isolationists like Wheeler and Borah. Paul doesn't even support humanitarian intervention Darfur! There are better foreign policy alternatives to recklessness than nonintervention.

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