[Olympiad Fisherman]

Ron Paul tries to set forth a perfectly consistent libertarian view across the board - hence his idealism, isolationism and abstractness is very apparent. While his constitutional economic ideas sound great, he gets himself in deep water when it comes to national security issues like Israel, Iran and the Middle East, and ... the issue of legalizing drugs. Staying out of everyone’s business all the time is simply a radical, impossible political ideal in a world full of thugs, mafia clans, terroritsts, communists, druggies, etc. His politics will be just as useless as the politcs we have now, perhaps even worse.

[Buchal]

He says that if Congress declares a war, he will fight it with vigor, and I believe him.

[Samogon]

War on drugs is as stupid and wasteful as Prohibition, admit that. The alternative - legalization. God gives us free will, suicide by chemicals - one of consequences. People make stupid decisions by millions every day, you can't outlaw all of them. Same applies to foreign countries: we can't fix them all. I would rather have them envy us, so we lead by example. That require resources to stay home, hence - isolationism. We would be a lot stronger and capable to respond more effectively to any threat if we keep our peacetime presence all over the world to the minimum. Why do I have to explain such simple concepts?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

While his constitutional economic ideas sound great, he gets himself in deep water when it comes to [...] the issue of legalizing drugs. Staying out of everyone’s business all the time is simply a radical, impossible political ideal in a world full of [...] druggies

What apocalyptic scenario do you see playing out if drugs are legalized?

[jpsb]

There are two components to isolationism, protectionism and non-interventionism. Paul is a non-interventionist but he is not a protectionist so by definition he is NOT an isolationist. I wish people bashing Paul in thread after thread would do a little research instead of just repeating the establishment lies about Paul.