“If you dig into Ron Paul’s motivations for taking specific positions on issues ..”
I am not interested in Ron Paul’s confused motivations; I am interested in results.
He doesn’t even understand Jihad, and he blames America that we have been attacked, even though Jihad has been in existence for centuries before the U.S. was even born.
Ron Paul voted to allow groups like Planned Parenthood to take minors across state lines for abortions without their parents’ knowledge.
No, I am not interested in Paul’s confused motivations; I am interested in results.
There are reasons why Ron Paul received a 66% or so rating with the aclu, and Duncan Hunter received only 4%.
ACLU, trying to take away our religious and other liberties, one liberty at a time.
Yes, he talks about blowback. It's a fact that bin Laden resented American involvement in Saudi Arabia. Did you know that in 1979 zealots took over the Grand Mosque with the Kabah and our CIA directed the plan to retake it and free the hostages? In exchange for a fatwa against the zealot by the national clerics, the Saudis agreed to fund international Islamisim. A RAND corporation researcher has pointed out that since then, the Saudis have outspent the former Soviet Union year over year on anti-American Islamic mosque building, madrassa building, and prostletyzing.
Blowback is a fact. I say that what we did, for the most part, during the Cold War, was necessary. Now we have an opportunity to change directions. We do not need to keep the same level of military involvement in the world. We simply do not understand the consequences. Consider our support of moslems against the serbs in Kosovo, and moslems against the Russians in Croatia, and so forth. We are making one mistake after another, and you can look straight at the State Department for these twisted, erroneous policies.
Ron Paul is seriously talking about changing all of that.
Ron Paul voted to allow groups like Planned Parenthood to take minors across state lines for abortions without their parents’ knowledge.
Or did he vote against a package that had other unconstitutional issues? That's the problem with looking at his voting record. He may appear not to support your favorite issue, but the larger piece of legislation he refused to support may have been flawed in many other ways.
Ron Paul has an excellent pro-life record, by any standards. I would rank him well ahead of any of the 'leading' GOP presidential candidates in that respect. He did not have a conversion on the way to Des Moines like the others.