You could take the record of ANY contemporary Congressman, including Ron Paul, and cherry pick votes that make him appear like a drunken sailor with a weekend pass. That’s b/c of Christmas tree bills, in part. But Mr. Paul is a menace on foreign policy, ans Santorum is a realist. Paul is the GOP’s Neville Chamberlain. The rules of engagement are set by the agressors, and there are fiends in every corner of the world. Paul supporters can’t accept this, and blame America, and Israel, first. Every time I hear or read a Paul supporter’s defense of him, I feel melancholic, and it solidifies my fear that our freedom will soon perish. You are good people, and even many of YOU can’t accept the intractability of the fight between good and evil, or maybe you can’t tell our enemies from our friends. It’s all crazy, IMO. Bob
Friend you are wrong about me, and likely about the world. There is a very good chance that if we just came home and quit meddling, that everybody would leave us in peace. Nobody wants to attack the big sleeping giant, especially if its minding its own business. Paul isn’t going to disband the military, far from it.
If we come home and they attack us, we can crush them again.
But if we don’t come home, we will be engaged in a state of perpetual war like we are now, 22 years and counting. And its costing us trillions we can’t afford. The US is a lot more likely to die in a fiscal crisis than because some guys in Iran hate us. Fiscal disasters are how most empires end.
There’s a reason why Paul gets the overwhelming support of the armed services, with more contributions from them than all other candidates combined, including Obama. They understand that what we are doing over there is worse than useless. And they also took an oath to protect the constitution, and they recognize that Paul is the only one who is going to take that oath seriously.
Also:
you could not cherry pick Paul and make him look like a spender. If you think you can, be my guest. Show me.
These guys who have been drunken spenders, will be drunken spenders again. What, do you think they’ve taken the 12 step program? You are in denial if you think Santorum is going to cut the increase Obama put into the budget out. Santorum will maybe, cut the growth in the budget over its current projections. I absolutely guarantee you you will never under Santorum see a US budget lower in $ terms one year than the last. Wanna bet?