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Purple Tang

The only candidate who would seem to have the race locked up is Ron Paul. This is why:
1) He performed the best by far at the debates. The only candidate in the same stratosphere was Romney.
2) Best education by far. Medical doctor & surgeon who has dealt with the stress of delivering over 4000 babies.
3) Military experience. Air Force Flight Surgeon
4) Political experience. Over 20 years in Congress. Noyone else holds a candlestick.
5) Voted no on Iraq. The single biggest issue right now. The 500 pound anchor on McCains ankle.
6) Voted no on the Patriot Act. The second biggest issue right now. Will be a 400 pound anchor on Giulianos ankle when his record on human rights comes under examination.
7) Fiscal responsibility. Our nation is drowning in a sea of debt. The US dollar is in freefall on the global markets. People have lost confidence due to the soaring debt and international relation snafus. Only Ron Paul has the record and the knowledge that will assure the financially savvy and responsible that he can fix this problem...perhaps the greatest of them all.
8) Individual freedoms. Everyday people are becoming more aware that Bushco did everything he could to destroy our freedoms and enforce a police state. Savvy politicos realize that Ron paul will return the freedoms they have grown accustomed to.
9) International relations. The greatest blunder of the Bush presidency. We need to become friends with the rest of the world again. Ron Paul will not conduct himslef like a 600 pound bully. Tensions will decrease and friendships will build.
10) Family values. Most people get married and have kids. They want a safe environment for their children and their childrens children. They do not want a gay activist or an abortionist.
11) Personal conduct & background. Ron Paul is as clean as a soap bar. Thompson was a professional skirt chaser. Those chickens will come home to roost. Giuliano has consorted with too many wives, too many mistresses, too many gays, too many abortionists.
12) Christian vote. Ron Paul also has this locked up. This is the voting base of the party. Can not be under estimated. This is the base that will precipitate Giulianos 10,000 free fall when his record becomes exposed.
13) Internet. Becoming more powerful all of the time. A medium that allows intellectuals to have intelligent debate. These intellectuals love Ron Paul.
14) Taxes. People hate them. Reckless spending is long term taxation. People will realize that Ron Paul is also known as Dr. No. He will severely cut government spending and that is THE ONLY true tax cut.
15) Gun rights. Americans love their guns. Ron Paul has consistently voted for the rights of gun owners.
16) The public wants change. Not business as usual. Ron Paul offers real change.

The other candidates ought to hang their heads and buy a one-way ticket back home. They have no chance. Ron Paul has them beat. He had more support at the last debate than all of the other candidates put together. He is bringing in a sea of cash. More than McCain who had a gigantic head start.

All of the Political Forums best and brightest minds are avid Ron Paul supporters. This is a nice cross section of the politically aware. He really doesn't need the knuckle draggers.

Plus he has great appeal to a lot of democrats. Myself being one of them.

donsutherland1

Qwerty,

The U.S. faces some decisive foreign policy challenges. The next President will need to rebuild U.S. legitimacy on the world stage, resolve the situation in Iraq, strengthen the trans-Atlantic alliance, reverse the fraying of the Russia-U.S. bilateral relationship, among other things, not withdraw the nation from the world stage as Congressman Paul seeks to do. He or she will need to safeguard and advance America's critical interests, some of which are overseas, while mitigating the great risks that confront the nation. He or she will need to see that the U.S. plays a constructive role sustaining a reasonable balance of power that is conducive to stability.

At this time, the U.S. can ill-afford to radically disengage itself from the world at large. That approach proved disastrous in the run-up to World War II. In the end, U.S. neutrality did not insulate it from the ravages of war.

superdude17*

stop making threads about him.

micfranklin

Yeah I like him and all but there's a lot of threads about him.

Purple Tang

We can't have too many threads about our most exciting candidate.


You called him Luke Skywalker a few days ago. What happened?

emptypepsi

This ridiculous attempt to compare situations of today to those of Pre-WWII is still that - ridiculous.

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superdude17*

enough about him. he isn't god. hes a racist who doesn't have any stance on any policy, other than he is against the administration and against big government.

if you would like to comment further, feel free to add to the other ron paul threads. this is not worthy of a new thread itself.

donsutherland1

Emptypepsi,

I can understand your clear preference to treat Mr. Paul's approach to foreign policy as a noble philosophy with boundless promise for achieving perpetual peace. After all, if one can only take a prospective position on Mr. Paul's philosophy, the inherent and fatal flaws of such a course remain hidden from view. Then, disconnected from actual experience, one can predict whatever wonderful future one desires. Maybe in Never Never Land, but most definitely not in this world.

Although examining Mr. Paul's approach to foreign policy through such a lens might be expedient in seeking to position it as a "mainstream" approach to foreign policy, Mr. Paul's approach is neither mainstream nor reasonable. It seeks nothing less than an extreme and dangerous disengagement from the world at large.

Not surprisingly, you assert that it is "ridiculous" to subject Mr. Paul's approach to the concrete experience of the nation's most recent experiment in isolationism. I maintain that it is at least as "ridiculous" to ignore historic experience and that to willfully do so is incredibly reckless. Foreign policy should be grounded in objective reality not utopian fantasy.

A responsible foreign policy should be designed around safeguarding and advancing the nation's critical interests at home and abroad, not on the artificial assumption that a country's sole interests lie within its own boundaries and that what happens beyond its borders is irrelevant to its economic, political, and military wellbeing. A mature foreign policy should be constructed on the synergistic relationship between foreign assistance, hard power, and diplomacy, not on some novel conception that diplomacy can function in a vacuum devoid of foreign assistance and hard power.

Mr. Paul's desired foreign policy does not meet those tests of a sound approach to foreign policy. Given the catastrophic failures with the nation's last application of such an approach, it is a foreign policy that should remain locked in the past.

micfranklin

Do you enjoy making assumptions that aren't true or is slander more of your thing?