djsherin ,I see you attract the Bush/McCain-bots who jump in your posts to attack Paul. It’s so ironic that the major complaint about Paul is that he was against any involvement of the US in the Middle East. Yet it was Bush leading congress, having is own party for 5-6 years, that bankrupted the nation and our greatly hurt our status as a world power. (and he gave us Pelosi 2006 and then Obama 2008 with a socialist mandate.) Read James Dale Davidsons 1980s book, the “Great Reckoning ‘. World powers are always destroyed and replaced when they bankrupt themselves with multiple wars and welfare spending at the same time(with broad based tax cuts and rebates). It was England before us. So Bush is more responsible than even democrats for our destruction which is why he is blamed by most of public. Ron Paul followers (I was not one) had nothing to do with it and if anything warned us.
Pure, unadulterated BS. I suppose you would have preferred us joining the ICC, kissing Saddam's ass, and trying to understand the "reasons those poor terrorists attacked us".
You know, we had over four years of astounding growth and good economic times....the housing market crash and Fannie Mae were not GWB or the Republicans fault. They tried to regulate FM/FM and were stopped by the Dems. Greenspan and the Federal Reserve set interests rates and money supply.
Good grief, guys. This thread is swarming with Bushbots, McCainiacs, and Party Firsters.
You know, if spreading democracy in Iraq at gunpoint using our armed forces is so wonderful, then why not apply the same methods here? What's good for the goose is good for the gander; yet, those same Freepers who adamantly favor using our armed forces to conduct exercises in social engineering abroad are also adamantly against allowing our Government to run amok at home. [Well, most of them are, at least, the ones who have been indoctrinated. The ones who haven't are in favor of more Big Government bailouts and amnesties. And that interventionist way of thinking is decidedly not "conservative"; it is more...fascist, or what we call "liberal," than anything else.]
As a conservative, I am opposed to anything that expands the scope and the powers of Federal Government beyond the boundaries expressly and explicitly defined within the Constitution, the original "contract with America."
In the meantime, the confusion over what constitutes conservatism is a consequence of conservatives, primarily within the Republican Party, stupidly allowing themselves to be dragged leftward, inch by inch, over the years and the decades.
LLS