"-- Meddling in the affairs of others often fosters animosity and a desire for retaliation, and we would never allow other countries to do to us some of the same things that the US is doing to them --"
—and it amazes me to see the scores of people who cannot seem to grasp those facts.
Seems to me it's a fairly simple concept; - why so many here at FR blow up about it [like Guiliani] is a minor mystery.
Wait till you see the reaction to Zawahiri quoting Paul in his next tape. LOL
There is no smear campaign.
Ron Paul is on the skids becuase he is the odd duck.
He is far to idealogical to winover joe everyman
Why does Ron Paul invoke the name of Reagan then? Reagan was the polar opposite of Ron Paul with regards to international affairs.
Mind your own business is difficult advice to follow.
I don’t need Glen Beck to tell me Ron Paul is a nut.
Should we base our foreign policy around the wishes of Osama bin Laden?
Because that’s what a Ron Paul presidency would entail. Paul likes to lecture us about history but he seems to not understand that appeasement has never worked.
If I understand what you’re saying, I fear you’re wrong. We can’t pretend that isolationism would work. It didn’t work before WWII, and it certainly won’t now. And, BTW, as to those online “polls” showing Dr. Paul in the lead, bear in mind they were probably loaded by the libs who’d like nothing better than for the Republicans to nominate him.
If he really had scored high in any poll, they'd be listing the poll and his numbers. The reality is that a small number of people support this nutbag. LGF has a link to all the polls and Ron Paul never gets more than 2% in any of the polls. That's why his loony supporters are stooping to lying about his performance.
Keep on polishin' that turd, Paulians.
Ron Paul is a gadfly. That can be a useful role for a congressman to play, and his constituents seem willing to support it. Fine.
But he will never appeal to the country as a whole, or to the conservative movement as a whole, or to Republicans as a whole. And he would make a lousy president.
Sure the 9/11 comission said that. So what? Do you credit everything that Jamie Gorelik and Co. had to say? They managed to pretend that clinton had nothing to do with 9/11 at all. Some commission.
Being an anarcho-capitalist does not enhance one's credibility.
If only we hadn’t brought Pearl Harbor on ourselves by making the Japanese mad...we could be living safe in isolation today, avoiding entanglements with Nazi Europe and the Japanese Empire of the Pacific.
How easy “Dr” Paul forgets that the reason we MUST “meddle” in the affairs of others is that they have done things like run a 1300 year campaign fostering genocide in search of world domination.
But sure, we should follow your nutsack’s recommendation to remain isolated.
Whatever.
That fool smears himself.
And if you don't believe it, just look at Japan and Germany that we meddled in vigorously. Sixty-odd years of occupation, and they're still quagmires.
Oh - wait a minute - they're actually civilized, peaceful countries?
Never mind.
I think the John Paul Smear campaign has done him in. Too many Americans found it offensive to see him carrying out his blame America for 911 smear
The fact is that neither Paul's Republican foes, nor his likely Democratic foes in the future, have any adequate response to his basic position on the Constitution, economics, or traditional American values. All they have is invective and abuse. Paul is completely correct in pointing out that the Constitution does not authorize most of the grandiose schemes that others have endorsed.
Will Paul fare well in the Primaries? Well, who expected Bill Clinton to get his Party's nomination in May of 1991? The fact that Paul does so well in the straw polls after the so-called "Debates," where he is limited to 30 and 60 second sound bites, where his natural advantage over the sloganeers does not even come into play, strongly suggests that he has a real chance, if he can get the funding for some serious media time. The best chance that he has to get that is a continuation of the ridiculous posturing of the Giulianis and Sean Hannitys, which are provoking the real outrage of true Conservatives and Libertarians.
Time will tell.
William Flax
We used to have something called “The Monroe Doctrine” that promised war to anyone meddling in the Americas.
Paul’s critics won’t admit that other countries, religions, whatever, could have a similar anger at our meddling in what they consider their own back yards. If they do admit it privately they are still eager to play a demagogue’s game in vilifying Ron Paul.
I’m not a Paul supporter, but he’s a thoughtful man who deserves not to be mau maued.