I might have been able to repect his view in respect to the troops in Iraq, I.E. get then out as soon as possible(assuming we have the situation stable over there), but in the same breath he wants to pull out all our troops around the world.
To say nothing of saying that Iran wasn’t a problem and we should just let them be. This guy is a loon of the highest order.
Not anymore. 'Conservative' is now defined by whatever the administration says it is for that day.
Throw the bum out!
My only question, do we stay in Puerto Rico, FALN terrorists motivated by the occupation being a fact. There's hope for the Aztlan movement as well.
I'm not a candidate, but when he speaks, I'm usually smirking too.
That's exactly where the majority of the American public stands on the subject, and the other GOP candidates ignore this at their peril. Ron Paul isn't going to win the nomination based on this belief, but the eventual Republican nominee might well lose the general election over it.
What a coincidence! I want Ron Paul to go home too!! ;.)
He does? Well, I want RuPaul to go home.
If we don't do it, someone else will. And I don't think anyone is going to like the results.
We had the luxury of being isolationist in the early part of our history, but technological advances have made it so that isolationism is no longer feasible.
“And U.S. troops in Europe?
“I would get them home,” Paul said in an interview Tuesday. “Having them stationed abroad doesn’t serve our national interest, and that goes for forces in Japan and Korea. “
As if we needed further proof that this guy is an idiot when it comes to foreign policy.
When you become president, you cannot summarily deny decades of commitments made by those whom you may not have agreed with.
I cannot believe I once supported this buffoon.
"Although described as a libertarian, the physician-politician is a throwback on stands that used to define "conservative" in America -- defense of individual liberties, a minimalist federal government and freedom from foreign entanglements. "I call it a non-interventionist, constitutional foreign policy," he said Tuesday. "We should have a strong national defense. But we should stay out of other countries' internal affairs. Our role is not nation building, and not to be world policeman." "
Sounds like Paul doesn't want the USA to follow England's descent from 'the Sun never sets on the British Empire' to 'God save the Queen'. An increasing number of Americans will agree.
“Right now, nobody threatens our national security.”
Except Ron Paul.
this man has to be STOPPED!
Ron Paul's district ain't made up of a bunch of liberal metrosexuals. This will be his last term.
I haven’t read through this thread yet and I probably won’t, because I know what’s going to happen and I don’t need to read the garbage some will post as “comments.”
Several years ago I stood on the local street as a counter-demonstrator to the first Million Mom March. There weren’t many of us but the police presence indicated they thought we all had machine guns ready to mow down those misguided moms. Instead, we stood quietly with our signs while enduring the occasional insult from the marchers. At one point though, some guy came running from the column, stopped in front of us and proceeded to swear at us as if we were the lowest form of life on the planet. Had the police not been so close by I’m sure one of us would have taken the time to “chastise” him for his insults. With the police just a few steps away though we just stood there while he litterally frothed at the mouth, spitting and screaming invectives at us. This was a man with whom no one could reason so we didn’t even try. His mind was so set on what he thought he was accomplishing there was no room for reasonable discussion.
Some of the anti-Paul posters here are much the same. Their minds are made up. To them, Ron Paul is nothing short of the Anti-Christ and they will repeat any bad publicity he has had, even attributing statements to him that he has never made. They are so certain of their positions they won’t even take the time to read the speeches he has made, preferring to read the “reports” of speeches he has made - reports by people who share their views on Dr. Paul. Fortunately, the web doesn’t transmit spittle or their posts would be as wet as the shirt of that idiot protestor who spent several minutes making a fool of himself.
Many have already commented on this, but “Right now, nobody threatens our national security” is the single most stupid, naive, insane, delusional comment made by anyone running for POTUS, including the dems.
There, corrected it.
There, fixed that one too.