However, on foreign policy, the guy is just plum crazy. And he says Democrats will do a better job at investigatory oversight? Are you kidding me?
Essentially, his remarks on September 11 can be distilled to read, “we had it coming to us so we deserved what we got.”
Amazingly enough, a Paul foreign policy is blind to the fact terrorists want to kill us at any cost (and despite that), America is not entitled to protect her sovereignty through a strong defensive posture or offensive reprisal.
Well, I’d cut him a break on the Democrats / oversight, personally. He wasn’t saying the Democrats are better at oversight in all cases, at least in my analysis. I think he was saying basically was that Democrats do a better job of oversight of Republicans than Republicans do. I’d assume that he’d say that Republicans do a better job of overseeing Democrats than Democrats do. It’s more a commentary on the 2 party system than anything else.
The particular comment, the quote from the Malkin article really doesn’t boil down to “we had it coming” The “cover-up” line leads to “it was a conspiracy”, not “we had it coming”. Paul has used both arguments, or, Paul’s arguments have been twisted to make people believe that Paul was making those arguments.
But, it is true that on FR, people believe that Paul makes those arguments.