Ron Paul is only the symptom. Unfortunately the GOP has chosen to self destruct in an attempt to eliminate the symptom while clinging to the disease.
Ron Paul is no Reagan and Reagan was not a war president but he did understand the need to make sure everyone knew we carried a big gun.
For SURE! bttt
"....One cannot simply blindly apply first principles to every situation, for this ends in a dogmatic and false absolutism.
"This is, for example, what creeps people out about Ron Paul.
"He says plenty of things -- derived from first principles embodied in the Constitution -- that make perfect sense. However, he always goes too far, in that half of what he says results from a blind application of first principles, irrespective of empirical reality.
"The same moral confusion afflicts leftists who wouldn't waterboard a known terrorist with information about an imminent attack, owing to an unthinking allegiance to the principle of "non-torture" -- which any normal person shares, up to a point, the point of suicidal insanity. ..."
Even if Paul "wins" the Iowa caucuses with less than a quarter of the vote, that doesn't mean the GOP is self-destructing. There is no way he will win the nomination with his wacko neo-isolationist foreign policy.