I can stomach Paul except on Israel. That is a deal breaker for me as a Christian, what with Israel beiong the lumchpin of the end times and all. Romney is a non-starter. The Wall Street/Politician axis has to be broken. Romney is one of them, like Geithner, Rubin, and Corzine. We need a Wall Street/Washington outsider.
“I can stomach Paul except on Israel. That is a deal breaker for me as a Christian, what with Israel beiong the linchpin of the end times and all. Romney is a non-starter.”
You’ve hit on the biggest problem I have with Ron Paul: foreign policy. And here is how I deal with it. I stand back and recognize that regardless of how dire the situation is in the middle east or how compelling the situation for us to get involved with, we simply don’t have the economic or political resources to engage at this point.
The economic problem is simple: we’re broke. Who is going to finance another engagement in the middle east? Saudi arabia? China? Who is to say that their interests are in line with ours? I just see it as being economically untenable right now. We have to get our financial house in order first.
The political problem I think is more easily dealt with, but still a problem. There is no stomach whatsoever outside of traditional conservative circles for another military engagement in the middle east. Zero. Absent an attack on US territory, I don’t see that changing soon. It’ll change with time I think, but not within the next four years.