Posted on 01/13/2012 7:06:58 AM PST by Veritas_et_libertas
Interviews with New Hampshire voters on Tuesday gave a glimpse into the issues that drew these newcomers to a campaign that has been trying to gain mainstream support for its message since Paul first ran for president in 1988.
Most said they were initially drawn to one element of Paul's platform, but came to support the rest of it later.
'Painfully, Very Slowly'
One voter, James Kelley, said he supported Paul at first because he seemed like the only candidate who was serious about cutting taxes and spending. But as he researched Paul's platform, he found himself reconsidering his hawkish foreign-policy views.
"Before him, I was basically like, nuke the Middle East and get it over with," Kelley said. "I started hearing what he was saying, and painfully, very slowly, I was like, yeah, actually, it makes sense."
From listening to Paul, Kelley concluded that it was the United States' own interventionist foreign policy that posed the greatest threat to national security.
"Initially, it [non-interventionism] didn't make any sense, because you keep hearing about all these threats and risks," he said. "But pretty much every single conflict we've been in, we've somehow preceded it. We armed the mujahedeen to fight the Soviets, and then we fight them as the Taliban. We put [Fidel] Castro in power; we put Saddam Hussein in power."
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I’m curious as to who you will be voting for in your primary.
I will certainly agree that the mess in the Balkans goes back at least to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman emprires.
But if you start looking at that (and the aftermath of the Spanish-American War before that), you see the beginnings of our current foreign policy philosophy. And, one can certain argue that involving the U.S. in the Great War was wrongheaded. It did advance the cause of American influence in Europe, but I’m not certain that was such a good thing.
If you were a Democrat ward healer in Chicago you would still be overjoyed ~ or Cleveland even!
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