Dick Cheney has served our country long and well. He is a true American patriot. Shame on the Ron Paul people fir such a disgraceful display.
Ron Paul’s vision of America and the world, in particular his isolationism, anti-semitism and anti- Israel positions are not shared by most Americans and certainly not shared by most Conservatives.
Time to end this trashing and remember who the real enemy is.
NOBAMA 2012
What a fiasco for the CPAC name. They have been co-opted, and are a fore runner for co-opting the Tea Party. A shame.
Every candidate has their weaknesses. If he is truly anti-semitic that is a huge failing, but is he?
I've heard him say he's against continuing giving foreign aid to Israel, a first world country but the largest recipient of foreign aid. He is against all foreign aid feeling it is unconstitutional.
Do you agree that foreign aid is constitutional? It doesn't fit into the enumerated powers. There is no way it can be stretched to fit into the commerce clause.
Which part of the Constitution authorizes it?
So, I think there is a principled, conservative stand against it, which people may interpret as being anti-Israel.
Watch the Rand Paul interview with Wolf Blitzer. Wolf asks Rand if he is oopposed to foreign aid to countries like Hati - Rand says that Americans are generous and after huge natural catastrophies of course we should respond .. or something to that effect. Wolf's next question is about Isarel. (Which recieves more than 10X the aid Hati gets. That tells me more about Wolf than about Rand.
I agree most Americans really like the idea that we run the world.
We also have a 1.5 trillion dollar deficit. It is my opinion (which I know is a minority position here among FReepers, and is not shared by the management) that SOME reduction in our "Policing of the World" is possible, desirable and probably necessary given the financial constraints. But, I also agree with Jim that you don't want to go too far. Certainly national defense *is* the primary "only government can do it" job, it is a dangerous world, and we should maintain a powerful military.
Paul goes too far, in my opinion.
I liked Dick Cheney alot and feel that whoever booed him acted disgracefully. Hopefully they were ejected by the event organizers.
Ron Paulers can be just as much a part of the “enemy” as any Democrat. Until you have seen these Paul supporters in action, in person, it might be difficult to understand, but they have made a concerted effort to take over the GOP in WA state and tried for two years in a row to disrupt the state convention and make sure that nothing got accomplished. One of our local Paulers had to be asked to leave.