Thank you for your service....
But Ron Paul is a pretender...he is a fringe libertarian, not a conservative with libertarian beliefs.
It is fact that he despised and thought Reagan was embarassing. You can’t be a conservative and despise Reagan.
Ron Paul didn’t despise Reagan, he just disagreed with any foreign interventions or growth of gov’t that was done by Reagan or anyone else.
It’s come to be that conservative is defined by how much one supports foreign interventions rather than how much one supports the constitution. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.
I’m ex-military too. I must state here that I was NOT in combat but I was in a front line combat role. After I ETS’d my unit went to Iraq. A few people I knew did not come back alive. There’s a different perspective of dying for your homeland vs. dying for a U.N. mandate. It’s hard to feel good about losing your friends to U.N. mandates.