So what are you, just a Fanboy for Ronpaul, or a Paultard? My monies on the latter.
Paul is a pacifist, he opposes war, period. His 5.8% in the GOP primaries was the anti-war vote within the GOP. Paul is an isolationist. A military and political isolationist --- NOT an economic isolationist. Pay attention!
>>>>>Please tell me why you feel that it is necessary...
I explained this to to you once before. link. Bad memory. Put down the bong!
>>>>>Lincoln was a statist...
Right. Anyone who is not Ronpaul, a Paultard or a libertarian, is a statist. You moron!
Why don't you stop whining the same old worn out libertarian-anarchist BS talking points and start thinking for yourself, rabscuttle385.
What ever happened to "Blessed are the Peacemakers"? Or is that yesterday's news, too? Why does everyone -- including self-identified Christians -- assume continual war should be the norm for America?
Paul is not a pacifist; but who shouldn’t oppose war in general? Is war a good thing? He has said many times he is a believer in the “Just War” philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_War
He isn’t an isolationist at all; he just doesn’t think we should be meddling in the affairs of foreign countries. It doesn’t take much to see that such meddling is more isolationist in the end as it hurts our relations with other countries.
Lincoln was a statist and did everything he could to push the mercantilist platform of the whig party which had been promoted by his ideological hero Henry clay.
And yes, Dr. Paul criticized Reagan because Reagan didn’t live up to his rhetoric. But leave out that Dr. Paul was the first to support him when Reagan ran for the presidency because he agreed with the rhetoric.