Actually, he's near the bottom of the pack in the Iowa, and for damn good reason.
He’s manufacturing Leftists. Shame on Ron Paul.
He says 9/11 was the American people's fault. He says Iran is not working to get nuclear weapons. His newsletters published under his name had many racist comments but he says he has no idea what is in his publications.
He accuses Americans of hating Muslims. He attacks America's armed forces and says he hopes they are defeated.
Anyone who supports Ron Paul is either brain dead or mentally ill.
I just can’t understand why Ron Paul is a member of the Republican Party. He is so at odds with the other candidates which isn’t so bad in some cases, but it’s not that he’s more conservative, he’s just odd.
Not everything Wright and Paul asserts is illogical and wrong. If the US gets involve with inter tribe, territorial disputes and power struggles of other nations, what do you think the side we are against is going to do???!!!! Since many of our opponents are weak in a conventional war confrontation they will resort to asymmetric warfare. Out of good intentions we stuck our nose into Middle East conflict by helping refugee Jews establish a homeland in Israel (a nation that ceased to exist after the Romans destroyed it) amongst intolerant Muslim Arabs. That is like asking for major trouble with the Arabs (whom the Soviets gladly stepped in, armed and trained). Add the Islamic religion, modern arms and American support for Israel, you don’t need much to motivate the Arabs to find an effective way to come at the US.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US had an opportunity to rest and rebuild. Instead a new type of thinking took over the US, since we are the sole super power let us use our power to change the world before we lose our power to do so. Neocon vision of transforming the world into a huge American type democratic society under the guise of UN action became our new mantra. Again we attack brutal dictatorships, destroy the glue that holds together the artificial nation, chaos reins and we are forced to rebuild the entire country from scratch at great expense to US taxpayers and Treasury to the point it plays a role in the budget deficits along with the other big two programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Plus gaining hatred from the defeated fractions with the nation.
We probably could have gotten away with the neocon crusades and its costs until Wall Street and big gov did us all a favor, implode the banking systems from all the fraud and ponzi schemes. Now we are totally broke with 15 trillion in debt and 70 billion in unfunded liabilities. Broke and yet still encouraged to go out and get more “bad guys” and wonder why some people in the world hate us?????
If the US had practiced half of what Ron Paul preached after the end of the Cold War, we won’t be so broke and hated by the world as we are today (its disturbing when polls taken in the world show substantial numbers of people see the US as one of the potential threats to world peace).
Actually, he's near the bottom of the pack in the Iowa, and for damn good reason.
On the one hand, people like Paul make some sense when saying that had we not been involved in the middle east, we might not have been attacked on 9-11.
On the other hand, when you look into WHO did the attacking, was that really the rationale? There is never an excuse to muder anyone much less 3,000 of my countrymen.
I think that Paul is using the attacks as a reason for his brand of isolationism. This is a connected world, you cannot just roll up the sidewalks and put out no vacancy signs Mr. Paul.
Maybe that would have worked in the early 20th century but not now. Not with the advances in technology.
Ron Paul is a Confederate. His advisory chairman, Tom Woods co-founded the League of the South, a pro-confederacy website. Everything he believes goes back to the South’s Civil War ideals of governing. Their version of Limited government is a government not capable of being a superpower. As far as national defense, they want to abolish the FBI and CIA and end our military presence everywhere. These guys are true isolationist, so much that we could never intervene with foreign affairs. They would prefer a national economy over a global one, so expect new tariffs on businesses operating oversees. Looks like the Confederacy is still bitter about losing the Civil War and this is their chance to win, by having Ron Paul as their man. He is successfully marketing Libertarian mixed with family values of independent freedom to gain support from the youth, the evangelical and reformed Christians, and targeting the anti-war people as their advocate. He promotes appeasement, which always sells well emotionally to the masses. I give him credit he is winning a lot folks over to his cause mostly because they are not aware of who he really is, but some of us recognize his strategy and are not deceived.
The mitt supporters sure do like to stick to their talking points, don’t they?
I can just picture Paul bowing, or getting on his knees, to every foreign leader and profusely apologizing to them.
But apparently thats what Republicans/conservatives in Iowa want him to do.
