The operative phrase there is “all of this”, meaning the article’s prior ravings that the Paul campaign is the captive of left-wing Trojan horse plotters. What nonsense!
The obvious fact is that Ron Paul is the ONLY semi-credible candidate in either party who says he will end the Iraq war in three months, and quite obviously means what he says. Therefore it’s quite understandable that this reactionary Taft-Republican grandpa has scooped up the single-issue antiwar support in both major parties. Why this should worry me, or any other Republican, I can’t imagine.
I started this campaign as a Tancredo supporter, and I still like both him and Duncan Hunter; but neither of their campaigns has taken off at all. Apart from his Liberalism, Giuliani will be dragged down by his closeness to Bush, and Bernie Kerik going to jail. Fred Thompson can unite the party, but his campaign seems to be lagging. Mitt Romney is a talented chameleon who I now consider the front-runner; but does he really believe in anything besides getting elected? As for Ron Paul, the only question worth discussing is whether his proposed policies are right or wrong for the USA. His proposed foreign policy might lead straight-away to Japan and Iran with nuclear weapons and a dire fate for Israel. On the other hand, if we bomb Iran won't the Islamist Pakis just give them another bomb to revenge themselves with? I think they will. And if we are truly too broke to play world policeman anymore, we might as well bring our troops home and pretend it was our own idea. I'm really not sure any more what is the correct foreign policy for our country to follow. What Ron Paul proposes is a drastic break from the recent past, but I'm no longer certain that he is wrong. As a Republican and American, I'd like to hear a further debate. Then we will vote!
There’s a simple way to settle this debate.
Find me a Ron Paul supporter who is not against the war on terror in Iraq? Who understands and supports keeping terrorists on the run by fighting them on foreign soil.
You call it nonsense, yet all of the supporting referrences in the column are legit and credible. That’s fine... if that’s how you see it.
But tell me, are you for keeping the war on terror or foreign soil instead of our own and supporting RP strictly on the basis of his “conservative” domestic comments?
Amen.