Lol, I wouldn't quite go that far, I actually did like and respect his old man though I disagree with him on certain important issues.
A lot of Libertarians are really smart people but not especially worldly and get carried away with their pie in the sky semi-anarchic utopia just like many liberals do. I'm hardly a war hawk and think our intervention in Iraq was probably one of the worst foreign policy decisions in recent memory with its incredible cost and negative consequences, but total isolationalists like Ron Paul are foolish to think that it unnecessary for us to sometimes flex our muscles to project our power and protect our interests in the world. Reagan was a master at it without ever having to get ourselves mixed up in things we were better off handling otherwise.
But be kind to libertarians, they are Republicans who just haven't quite grown up yet, lol.
Thanks for your nice response.
Early on I liked Ron Paul a lot. Hearing what I had heard, I thought his mind would see other issues as clearly as the ones I had heard him address. And then I learned more about him. I was disappointed, and at times rather angry with the guy. It just seemed his ideas were half-baked.
I found Rand to be equally challenged.
I believe Iraq could have been brilliant, if conducted properly. I won’t get into it now, since it’s off topic, but as decent a job as Bush did, I thought he made some terrible blunders. He went 75% of the way.
Now we’re paying for it. Some wasn’t his fault, but he had time to fix this right. He didn’t.
We know what a problem Obama is, so I’ll simply leave it at that.