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My answer is cuts across the board.

What a lot people don’t understand, even some Ron Paul supporters, is that Ron Paul really isn’t a Libertarian.

He’s an old-timey, traditional Conservative who believes that the Federal Government has gotten way too big, and has grown way beyond the limits that the Constitution has set for it.

Regulating Drugs is just one of many many things that the Federal Government is doing that they shouldn’t be. Worrying about school test scores. That’s what local school boards are supposed to do. And on and on and on. Many many things Ron Paul would get rid of. Some of those things you like, but most of those things you don’t like.

Every President has grown the Government. Ron Paul wants to make it much much smaller, limited to what the Constitution allows. That’s the main pole, the support for the very sturdy, bolted to the floor, diner stool of Conservatism.

9 out of 10 major cuts and abolition of agencies true hardcore conservatives would support. Ron Paul is going the whole way and saying cut absolutely everything.

More on ending the War on Drugs. If the Federal War on Drugs ended, it doesn’t mean that all Drugs would immediately be legal. State Laws are still in place, or they would be put there. Ending the Federal War on Drugs just means that if states want to start making some drugs legal (and I’d imagine marijuana would be made legal in some states) they can. I do not believe that heroin would be legal anywhere.

About Foreign Policy, well, I would say that I personally don’t agree with his 2008 position that we should close all the military bases. He probably does have the same position, but I don’t know for sure.

I think the idea is just for the federal government to scale back it’s foreign policy objectives. Focus on keeping the US safe, and less on making sure every other country does what we want it to do. We really should be getting away from the idea that the US wants some other country to do one thing or another. Maybe we can move toward a “I don’t care what happens” policy. But, I really don’t care all that much about Foreign Policy, actually, except I think Ron Paul shouldn’t talk about it that much.

Also, wanting to close the bases doesn’t bother me, because I’m fully aware that if Ron Paul became President, he couldn’t just close all the military bases. And I’m fully aware that if Ron Paul became President, there is no way that he’d be able to accomplish everything he wants to do. But what won’t happen, is growth of the Government. Everybody will be expecting cuts. And everyone will be howling about the size of those cuts. And everyone will be trying to save this thing or that thing. But it will be all about cuts.

I would recommend thinking not about what would happen if Ron Paul became President and if every Congressman became a carbon copy of Ron Paul. Because not every Congressman will become a carbon copy of Ron Paul.

He’ll have a Senate and a House with a lot a Democrats and a sizeable number of RINOs. Will massive massive cuts pass?

Think just of the direction. Going from what new spending to what new cuts. And that’s the direction I want.

The biggest problem we have right now is the Federal Government does too much. Ron Paul is the one I trust the most to make the necessary cuts, to focus only on reducing the size and scope of the Federal Government.