Posted on 12/09/2011 5:50:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
DES MOINES, Iowa--Ron Paul, standing backstage before a Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina not long ago, was talking to Doug Wead, one of his senior advisers, about his Christian faith.
In the moments before the debate, Paul explained how his beliefs in limited government and even his opposition to the Federal Reserve had their foundations in scripture, combined with his study of the Constitution. Before he left to take the stage that night in November, Paul smiled and said to Wead, who told this story to Yahoo News, "You know, the libertarians are just baffled by me. They didn't think it was possible for someone to come this direction. A person of faith."
In stark contrast to how he campaigned four years ago, Paul has made a concerted push during this presidential campaign to emphasize how religion has shaped his policy ideas. Through public addresses, campaign advertisements and conversations with voters, Paul has engaged in an intentional effort to articulate the biblical roots of his philosophy. These efforts are most on display here in Iowa, where most Republican caucusgoers align themselves with socially conservative views, and where Paul is building what has become a robust organizational machine to connect with them. Paul has surged into second place in Iowa, according to several recent polls. The Real Clear Politics polling average for the state has Paul tied with Mitt Romney at 17 percent, behind Newt Gingrich's 30 percent.
Paul has brought several Christian conservatives onto his campaign in an ambitious effort to reach believers for his cause. Michael Heath, the campaign's Iowa director, previously worked for a New England-based group called the Christian Civic League of Maine that fought against adding sexual orientation to the state's Human Rights Act.
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Paul IS NOT my guy. I do not like surrender monkeys IE a terrorist he doesn’t make excuses for.
The man is delusional when it come to foreign policy.
Nutcase:
“Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq,” Ron Paul Dec 8, 2011
Paul supports gays in the military and legalizing drugs and prostitution. You’d think, given that, he’d have a hard to convincing conservative Christians he is their man.
Yep.
I never liked the guy before (and good grief, he's got some obnoxious supporters!) but that little dropping pretty much sealed it.
Ron Paul votes NO on reaffirming “In God We Trust” as America’s motto.
Conservative: Someone who plunders and pillages other countries.
To listen to anti-Paul folks, that seems to be the basic difference between liberals and conservatives.
“Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq,” Ron Paul Dec 8, 2011
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Heck, for me that’s just the tip of the iceberg............
But then, again I’m just a “neocon Zionist warmonger”.
What do I know ?
He supports legalized drugs of all kinds, legalized prostitution, and is anti-Israel in his “foreign policy.”
Try selling that to the Southern Baptists!
Just curious, how much American blood would you be willing to spill for another country?
“Just curious, how much American blood would you be willing to spill for another country?”
I assume you understand the concept of allies.
I’d support our allies in a just war, and expect their support in a just war.
We’d spill American blood in their defense, perhaps, but less blood in our defense.
No nation is an island.
We do not have a mutual defense pact with Israel.
"So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."
"As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot... Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests."
You asked me,
““Just curious, how much American blood would you be willing to spill for another country?””
And I responded. If we don’t have a treaty with Israel for mutual defense, then the only blood I’d like to spill there would be in defense of our OWN interests.
You may think we have no interest in defending the nation of Israel. I may think we do. But my reason for defending Israel militarily would be for what I perceive to be our own interests.
A nation’s military is only for the interest of its nation; whether the participation in reasonable treaties of perhaps in staving off muslim hordes.
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