Shane Writes

think-progress:

Ron Paul is effectively acting as Romney’s on-stage surrogate during the debates. The key question is: what is Paul getting out of it?

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Have you Paul-Romney-Alliance pushers ever thought about the possibility that maybe Ron Paul isn’t attaching Romney because Romney has more money than everyone combined and if Paul took a shot at him this early, Romney would do to him what he did to Newt in Florida and point all the guns and open fire? 

You have to pick and choose your battles wisely. And Mitt Romney doesn’t threaten Paul’s voter base the way Rick Santorum does. Rick has been increasingly marketing himself to the Ron Paul voters. He’s been saying he’s a Constitutionalist and a “true” Conservative and that he believes in Liberty. The fact is that he does not do any of those things and Ron Paul is trying to defend the voters that he’s already won over. 

Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of Ron Paul. Mitt presents absolutely no threat to stealing the voters Paul has already won over. In fact, Mitt and Ron couldn’t be any more different than they are. Polar opposites.  

If you just thought about this strategy for more than 2 minutes, you would have realized this.

Or do people just not think for more than 2 minutes anymore?