How about some fun "trivia"...what party was conservative Senator Robert Taft, the leading proponent of the views held by Dr. Paul's (pro-American, non-interventionism)? Here's a hint..."Mr. Republican" was his nickname.
Actually, the Jeffersonian Republicanism of the 1930's wasn't classical Republicanism either. Classical Republicanism was the nineteenth century Puritan heritage of the Federalist, Anti-Masonic, Whig, and Know Nothing parties: loose construction, implied powers, opposition to Jacobinism, a private central bank (take that, Mr. Paul!), a strong industrial base (making for industrial independence), protective tariffs, and public morality (blue laws and laws against liquor). That, my friend, and not Jacobinical Jeffersonianism, is Classic Republicanism!
In #110, Gondring makes the common error of imagining Robert Taft the Elder as somehow a precursor of more modern conservatism without limit. Actually, Taft was a "good government" type (a "goo-goo" in the parlance of the day) as well as being somewhat conservative. As a US Senator, he sponsored federal housing programs in the late 1940s and, as an Ohio state legislator, he sponsored a bill authorizing a municipal personal income tax for Cincinnati during the Depression. Taft was an impressive man for numerous reasons but NOT consistently conservative on a number of important issues and not just his pre-Pearl Harbor Midwestern isolationist disease.
A little known event of approximately 1915 deserves mention. In that year, the Civil War veterans organizations: Grand Army of the Republic and Confederate War Veterans held a joint "encampment" at Gettysburg and re-enacted the critical and disastrous (for CSA) "Pickett's Charge" (without weapons, of course). When the two groups of old men came into contact on that tragic long hill, they spontaneously wept and embraced each other in a spectacular outburst of genuine emotion. The USA has fought many foreign nations in its history without any similar scene playing out among the veterans of the respective forces.
Anyone who admires Taft's memory as to his conservative issues, should be embarrassed to tout the sorry and unworthy likes of paleoPaulie as the reigning heir of a far greater, though flawed, man like Taft. Such notions are also disrespectful to Taft who was certainly a man of personal integrity unlike Galveston's phony treasonweasel and addicted fiscal porkmeister and earmarker.