So even though he continues to get re-elected in a district filled with rational people he is deemed a nut job.
He did a few things for his district that go against his stated principles, like every other politician that has ever survived an election, yet he is the only one that is constantly accused of being a hypocrite.
If Ron Paul had supported the Iraq and Afghanistan wars all along then he would not be considered a nutjob on FR, nor particularly hypocritical.
When the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan finally achieve equilibrium, i.e. those countries are once again ruled by corrupt dictators, then he will be seen as something of a prophet.
But then all prophets are viewed as nutjobs and hypocrites during their lifetimes.
>>> Ron Paul has committed the unforgiveable crime on FR.
Cindy Sheehan endorsed Ron Paul for the presidency over Barack Obama. That’s not a crime. But it puts the man and his agendas in proper perspective.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Cindy Sheehan endorses Ron Paul over Barack Obama
http://wigdersonlibrarypub.blogspot.com/2008/05/cindy-sheehan-endorses-ron-paul-over.html
and also:
Sheehan: “I don’t want to even discuss who is likely to be the Republican nominee, because besides having little foreign policy difference between any of them and Hillary, anyone of them would be a complete disaster on matters of war and peace, with the possible exception of Ron Paul (Tx).”
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1590/t/523/blog/comments.jsp?key=346&blog_entry_KEY=21045&t
The rational point of the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan started as to deny AQ bases and to keep the war Over There instead of here. We got lost in “nation building” and “hearts and minds.” We should have destroyed Iraq’s infrastructure and colonized the oil. We went off on a gooey social working tangent and will now get the worst of all possible outcomes short of quick and decisive defeat. Ron Paul is not wrong. And no, I won’t vote for him. He has no understanding of Islam and the Long War. He will get just as lost with it as Bush and the Kenyan. And he will be involved in it just as those other two were and are. The umma is fighting seriously against the West and will continue the fight so long as the West finances their war. The payninm will always fight against the West and Christendom/atheism/infidels when it has more resources than what are needed to keep its population barely fed and a small group of rulers in opulence.
Ron Paul's neo-hippie world view has been around long before the current wars. He damned Reagan for fighting the Cold War, condemning his build up of arms that ended up crushing the Soviet Union. He said Reagan was a 'failure who made Carter look Conservative'. In the 80s, he said that the US could defend itself with just a couple of submarines and we don't need a standing military. Even in his early years he called for the dismantling of the Air Force as it wasn't in the Constitution (tried to have it moved back under the Army).