I thought Ron Paul could have been a great presidential candidate for the Republicans in 2008 and 2012. He'd certainly have given Obama a stiffer fight than Romney in 2012, where Obama handed Romney his ass in the debates. He's just too sane for the Fox News nuts. Probably the only Republican candidate worthy of being president in a long while. Is Rand Paul similar to his dad?
Even though I don´t agree with all of his domestic policies, I think Ron Pauls foreign policy and the way he attacked Pentagon/CIA/NSA, Wall Street, crony capitalism and the federal reserve would have been a real "change" that the World and America needed, they were seriously scared of him, you could see that in the debates and in the media (especially the idiots at Fox both also the more left liberal media who sadly supports the same kind of foreign intervention and endless war policy like the neoconservatives).
Ron Paul was probably the most courages and smartest presidential candidate for decades, Obama had the same potential, but when he started to taking huge donation from Wall Street and the military industrial complex and choosing the same financial and hawkish security advisors as Bush there was never going to be a proper change. Hopefully he can make some changes during the last term, I think the Iran Deal was one of the best things he has done actually as a president, something he wouldn´t dared in his first term.
It’s funny because Ron Paul had the biggest grassroots support of them all, he got more donations from serving Soldiers then all the other candidates COMBAINED (republican and democrats), and still people like John Mccain, Romney etc accused him of being unpatriotic and anti-military.
Still think his son is the most reasonable republican out there, but it ain´t hard to be, he don´t have the same aura and courage as his father but I rather have him then Bush, Trump etc. His domestic policies could be weird but there wouldn´t be any more catastrophic endless war like in Iraq, Libya etc and NSA surveillance that effect the rest of the World as well, that’s why I like him.
Bernie Sanders vs Rand Paul would be my ideal choice from the two parties.