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.
Yes, Ronpaul backed Reagan in 1976. From 1988 onward Paul has stated Reagan was a “dramatic failure” as President. Yet he still quoted him and praised Reagan during the GOP primary debates. Rank hypocracy from the leader of libertarian fringers.
Thankfully Ronpaul will never be potus. Sadly, you will remain a blithering idiot.