If not wanting to be nanny-stated or daddy-stated to death "sounds like the Left" to you, then you are completely turned upside down and backwards -- and couldn't find "the Left" or "the Right" with a guide and a magnifying glass.
"The Jews"? WTF? Yeah, someone whose name was once Goldfarb is going to "blame the Jews". LOL! Thanks for the laugh -- even though I am sure it was unintentional!
Not protecting our Nation is exactly what the Left wants, a Paulist policy. And it is primarily the Left which has been hyperventilating about Big Brother whenever Bush wanted to wiretap Terrorists and their supporters.
It would not shock me to discover that much of Paul’s financing is from Leftist sources happy to tie him around the neck of the GOP.