[mnehring]

His position is supported by those of such greats as Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe.

All of these people are dead. We don't know what they would say about the current conflict. It is far too complex to simply take some quote by Washington and attribute it to the current situation. I do doubt, however, that any of them would want our country to commit suicide.

[Equality 7-2521]

So you have no comment on the incorrect use of the term “surrender”?

[Chi-townChief]

I guess they want us to read this stuff and say, “see, Ron Paul is just like George Washington!”

[wideawake]

You know that when a column begins by citing Wikipedia as a magisterial authority on its subject, the rest is going to be amusing and appalling in equal measure.

[bamahead]

All of these people are dead. We don't know what they would say about the current conflict

"We can't know for certain what the founding fathers meant by this or that, and of course it doesn't apply to 'here and now', so lets just do what we think they might have meant."

Phrases such as the above are always thrown around by those deciding which of our constitutional rights to trample on next... Your use of the same logic here is absolutely NO DIFFERENT.

[italianquaker]

Lets see ru pauls foreign policy is to surrender, his domestic policy is 8 million dollars for shrimp and beside this stupidity he blame us for 9-11. I think he sounds more like obama and company every day