Ron Paul would be better advised to concentrate on his stengths — tax elimination, the 2A, ...drastically reducing the size and scope of gov’t. But he appears intent on emphasizing his glaring weakness.
Agreed 100%. Paul is a hardcore small-government libertarian with a heavy conservative streak (he’s pro-life), and I guess that’s where he comes off following the LP isolationist line about non-intervention. But man, the guy is just completely tone-deaf. He’s falling into the trap that the antiwar left has laid...they’re cheering him and pumping him up because he’s against the Iraq war, and so he keeps spewing that tripe instead of playing up the things that really would make most Republicans like him.
The irony is, of course, that the Moveon.org and Code Pinko antiwar moonbats who love Paul because he’s antiwar would be the first ones to call him every nasty name in the book if he ever did get in national office.
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“Ron Paul would be better advised to concentrate on his stengths”
Which still means he is going to go nowhere, he and Dennis the Elf have that in common.
This is a great post. FReeper Turbopilot in another thread also stated that Paul was somewhat hurting himself by dwelling on the past of his Iraq vote.
I think your perspective is a little to FR-centric. Remember that most Americans now think it was a mistake to go into Iraq.