>>>A Conservative would never call his country “imperialist”. William F. Buckley didn’t. Barry Goldwater would have committed hara-kiri before doing it, as would Ronald Reagan.<<<
I posted this earlier, but I’ll repeat it:
Native Hawaiians, Puerto Rico, Palmyra, the Northern Marianas, Guam, Cuba (Guantanamo) and the U.S. Virgin Islands (maybe others) might disagree with you about American Imperialism, but what do they know?
Maybe Ron Paul’s biggest “handicap” is he is just too damn honest.
Fine. He honestly hates America. He’s a traitor.
There is no way on God’s green and cooling Earth any Conservative should vote someone who calls America “imperialist”. That spits on the grave of any American who died for this country. If that isn’t heinous enough, it also sounds just like Chairman Obama and his puppet $oros.
Just like I don’t tolerate their intellectual treason, I reject Ron Paul’s.
I don’t see any of the folks you mentioned in revolt.
I lived in Hawaii in the early nineties, mostly in Nanakuli, and I got to know the locals pretty well, which isn't easy. Very nice people but they don't just let you into their community. It takes a while to be accepted.
I knew one of the organizers of the sovereignty movement and my take on it was that it had less to do with American Imperialism than it did with plain old power and control, like any political movement.
I will say this though. The Japanese are hated there much more than the American presence, and if I had to guess, they would much more likely keep things the way it is now, than whatever it would hve been under Japanese rule.
That's just my opinion.