Do you support Ron Paul? (Yes/No)
Here’s a question for you: On your website you lament how conservatives are going after each other. If Ron Paul turns out to win the nomination (grant me the “if”), will you support him?
I don't view Ron Paul as a Conservative. I view Ron Paul as an extreme left-wing social Libertarian who tries to paint himself with a fiscally Conservative profile to hide his true views on race, (as published in the newsletter that he acknowledged was his and bore his name) and Israel, who he refuses to acknowledge would be wiped off the map should Iran ever get nuclear capabilities. Those are just TWO examples.
So to directly answer your question of "will you support Ron Paul" if he wins the nomination: HELL NO.
Ron Paul's overly-simplistic world view that the rest of the world will "like us" if only we pulled our military back mirrors that of Barack Hussein Obama, and is just as dangerous as Obama's. That world view is precisely why Islam and evil is on the rise around the world. There's just no way in hell I could ever vote for a Presidential Candidate who espouses such a vew, period.
“So to directly answer your question of “will you support Ron Paul” if he wins the nomination: HELL NO.”
Well, thank you for a direct answer! Let me follow it with another: Is there any amount of evidence or logical reasoning that might change your mind?
Now I will give you a direct answer to your Yes/No question:
Yes, I support Ron Paul. No, I don’t agree with him 100 percent on all of his views, but neither do I agree 100 percent with any of the other candidates. But I agree with enough of his views to support him, and on the issues where I disagree, I’m willing to listen to the other side and to discuss the differences. I’m not insisting on 100 percent perfection, in other words. That seems to me to be a reasonable position.
What are those differences? Well, you mentioned his support of Israel and his position on Iran and nuclear weapons. I agree that those are acceptable objections, but I have also listened to Paul’s answers to them, and I think that his explanations are not as unreasonable as they have been presented in the press, nor as simplistic as those think who have not given careful consideration of them.
Does that make me a “Paultard”? I still don’t know what a “Paultard” is unless it is defined as anyone who tainted by any contact of any amount or degree with Ron Paul’s ideas.
If one insists on 100 percent agreement, and would rather have another four years of the current president rather than accept a candidate with only 80 percent agreement,
then the answer to my question is obvious:
Q: Is there any amount of evidence or logical reasoning that might change one’s mind?
A: Hell, no. I’d rather have Obama for four more years than have Ron Paul with whom I only agree with 80 or so percent of the time! As Wittaker Chambers once observed: “The open mind is always closed on one end.”