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.
Guess I'm just 'old school' when it comes to that topic. Thought Bush became infected with ridiculous libtard ideas when he started chastising people with " who says Arabs can't handle democracy' or somesuch nonsense when the country was obviously strongly religiously divided and would never have remained intact without a strongman of some sort.
In the old days conservatives understood these basics and would have just went to the second in command and said hey you going to ball with us or not until they found a willing ally, then quickly install him. Sorry but breaking up the military and other things that his administration did was the height of folly and something I can only associate with a liberal influence within his administration - a real conservative would have never done something so stupid. No offense just being real about it.