I am trying to go to each “example” of Paul’s “looniness” to understand them in context.
In this case, you have misquoted and mischaracterized what he said in the interview. He gave a lengthy and reasoned explanations and (paraphrasing) said that it was heroic to stand up against unjust laws.
In context, I really don’t see what the problem with his statement is. Didn’t the original Tea Party folks break the law of the day when it was unjust and related to taxation? Were their “illegal” efforts heroic?
I am trying to go to each “example” of Paul’s “looniness” to understand them in context.
In this case, you have misquoted and mischaracterized what he said in the interview. He gave a lengthy and reasoned explanations and (paraphrasing) said that it was heroic to stand up against unjust laws. ...
:Like you, I have found, any time I have been able to track down the entire newletter referenced in a Ron Paul smear, the smear has been a dissembling partial truth.
Like him or not Paul, brings to the campaign serious questions that warrant discussion, questions about big government, how US taxpayer money is spent, foreign policy, the role of the Fed...
While my research thus far leads me to believe that Ron Paul is naive regarding the most basic motivation of Jihadis, consider the following:
GW kept reminding us that 'Islam is a
religion of 'peace'. Never mentioned that Islam is a total political system and peace is achieved when there is a world wide caliphate under Sharia.
Ultimately Paul's foreign policy would be better for both Israel and Christianity.
While Israel would get no foreign aid, neither would its enemies:
2011 Interview
Newsmax: What should our relationship be with Israel?
Ron Paul: We should be their friend and their trading partner. They are a democracy and we share many values with them. But we should not be their master. We should not dictate where their borders will be nor should we have veto power over their foreign policy.
... Stop and consider America’s policy: We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel’s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.
... We should share intelligence for mutually agreed-upon goals. We should honor our pledge to refuse any arms sales that would undermine Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region.
As a result of nation building, promoting 'democracy' in the middle east, and PC immigration:
Iraq's Christians Near Extinction
Per Pamela Geller
"US policy regarding the refugee resettlement program would shock most Americans if they only knew. The UN picks who becomes US refugees. Christians are being refused refugee status and face persecution and many times certain death for their religious beliefs under the sharia, while whole Muslim communities are entering the US by the tens of thousands per month despite the fact that they face no religious persecution"
Paul would stop funding the UN and pull us out of all treaties that impinge upon our sovereignty. His proposed budget would shut down entire federal bureaucracies while preserving military pensions. Could shutting don the tax payer funded trough be what has the political elite so p*ssed and resorting to smear tactics?