what if Paul holds the balance of delegates?

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write the rest of the story.

Mitt Romney agrees to release his delegates and they vote for Ron Paul, who is nominated as GOP candidate.  After a heated general election campaign, the people of the United States elect Ron Paul the president in November.  Half the bureaucracy of the government disappears within six months of President Paul's inauguration.  Military troops are brought home from all over the world.  Trade sanctions with, and travel restrictions to, Cuba end abruptly.  The federal reserve board is dismantled.  Tax burdens maintained long enough to pay off the federal debt then reduced dramatically.  Commerce rebounds.  The unemployment rate falls.  Peace and prosperity ensues, at first only on the North American continent, but eventually, as the example of liberty catches on, all over the world.  Famine, war, hunger, poverty, and strife become a thing of the past.  

…with US Navy no longer ensuring open sea lanes:  Russia annexes the Sea of Okhotsk, Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, northern Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Bering Sea…China annexes East and South China Sea, Philippine Sea…Iran annexes Persian Gulf…Egypt closes Suez Canal to vessels bound for the West…Drug Lords close Panama Canal.

…and the world suddenly becomes a much safer and prosperous place in accordance to the utopian ideas of the great and all-knowing Ron Paul.

Because the rest of the world (that which isn't controlled by or allied with the US) is filled with cartoonishly evil supervillains who hate making their people prosperous and would prefer engaging in piracy, 18th century style.

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write the rest of the story.

Mitt Romney agrees to release his delegates and they vote for Ron Paul, who is nominated as GOP candidate.  After a heated general election campaign, the people of the United States elect Ron Paul the president in November.  Half the bureaucracy of the government disappears within six months of President Paul's inauguration.  Military troops are brought home from all over the world.  Trade sanctions with, and travel restrictions to, Cuba end abruptly.  The federal reserve board is dismantled.  Tax burdens maintained long enough to pay off the federal debt then reduced dramatically.  Commerce rebounds.  The unemployment rate falls.  Peace and prosperity ensues, at first only on the North American continent, but eventually, as the example of liberty catches on, all over the world.  Famine, war, hunger, poverty, and strife become a thing of the past. 

…with US Navy no longer ensuring open sea lanes:  Russia annexes the Sea of Okhotsk, Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, northern Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Bering Sea…China annexes East and South China Sea, Philippine Sea…Iran annexes Persian Gulf…Egypt closes Suez Canal to vessels bound for the West…Drug Lords close Panama Canal.

…and the world suddenly becomes a much safer and prosperous place in accordance to the utopian ideas of the great and all-knowing Ron Paul.

Because the rest of the world (that which isn't controlled by or allied with the US) is filled with cartoonishly evil supervillains who hate making their people prosperous and would prefer engaging in piracy, 18th century style.

How would doing such things not advance the interests of those nations? You overestimate the value of material wealth and underestimate nationalism- and that's not to say dominating trade in those regions would harm the economies of those nations.

Why doesn't the US do it? You don't seem any more altruistic or friendly than the rest of the tin pot superpowers.

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The GOP establishment will die before it let's Paul become kingmaker. Quit dreaming.

If he did well enough they might make some concessions. If they piss him off too much he could do something like campaign for Gary Johnson and bring his supporters along.