Now that the shock of Donald Trump's election is abating, rumors abound of who the president-elect will appoint to his cabinet.

One of the more unusual speculations: Ron Paul for Secretary of State.

This one is more of a pipe dream for libertarians/nightmare scenario for neoconservatives than a real possibility, since Trump has not actually floated Paul's name for any cabinet position.

Jennifer Rubin, a conservative blogger for the Washington Post, started the rumor earlier this year when she tweeted:

Ron Paul as secretary of state #thingstoworryabout — Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) May 4, 2016



Ron Paul responded, without exactly putting the rumor to bed:

Neocon Panic Attack! What If Ron Paul Becomes Trump's Secretary of State?https://t.co/eD0rXz7ink — Ron Paul (@RonPaul) May 5, 2016



Now, many Trump supporters are hoping their candidate will consider appointing Paul to his cabinet as Secretary of State or Treasury. There is even a petition that currently has over 11,000 signatures.

Joe Hank, who started the petition, argued that "the entirety of Trump's candidacy has been made up of unlikely scenarios. And while Ron Paul might not align with Donald Trump politically, the similarities of their candidacies are striking; both didn't buy into special interests, both exposed corruption on national TV, both weren't afraid to speak their mind, both are fierce critics of the current foreign policy of the United States and both made the establishment shake in their boots."

However, Daniel McAdams, writing for the Ron Paul Institute, said Trump and Paul are very different when it comes to foreign policy.

"...there isn't all that much for non-interventionists to get excited about when it comes to Donald Trump," McAdams wrote. "He just threatened to shoot Russian planes, he wants to confront China, he wants to dump more money into the military-industrial complex, he just told Bibi to build build build more settlements on occupied Palestinian territory in Gaza, and so on."

McAdams continued, "the ideas Ron Paul openly espoused in his recent two presidential campaigns have planted a seed especially among young people, who may in fact be settling for Trump but whose hearts are still with Dr. Paul's prescription for peace and prosperity: non-intervention overseas and in the US economy. Sound money. Free markets and free minds."