So, you aren't backing anyone. Why waste your time bashing Dr. Paul? Personally I think Dr. Paul is a man of character, he could be strong on Terror, although it would be in a different manner than what we see today, as would many of his plans and opinions. He is pro-life, Pro-Gun and strong on immigration issues. More so then any of the others in the field currently and isn't afraid to say it. Now is he electable? That's up to the voters.
So you say. I don't know if he is or not.
So, you aren't backing anyone. Why waste your time bashing Dr. Paul?
Ron Paul is a symbol of pseudoconservative defeatism. While he is a joke as an individual politician, his counterproductive policy positions are more important than he is and more destructive.
Personally I think Dr. Paul is a man of character, he could be strong on Terror, although it would be in a different manner than what we see today, as would many of his plans and opinions.
He is manifestly not a man of character, as his wholesale abandonment of term limits indicates.
But that's less important than the fact that he does not take terrorism seriously at all. He is honestly more concerned about defense spending than he is about the welfare and morale of our fighting forces.
In this he is despicable and unforgivable.
And he inspires an insufferable cabal of "more conservative than thou" conservatives who believe that their personal, idiosyncratic view of the Constitution as an abstract ideal (as opposed to the real Constitution) trumps reality - they would rather allow terrorists to shape the battlefield than compromise their carefully-constructed dreamworld of perfect Constitutionalism.
Yet these are the same people who love Lysander Spooner.
He is pro-life, Pro-Gun and strong on immigration issues. More so then any of the others in the field currently and isn't afraid to say it.
Great. Not enough.
The voters have already spoken on a Ron Paul presidential candidacy.
If he can improve his showing this time by more than 25,000% he may have a shot.
But not on the GOP ticket.
That's a good summary.