Nickname said:
His ideals are what I think the Republican party was originally fundamentally about but has since strayed into the nonsense it is today.
And notice how the Rebublicans lost almost all political power until the conservative movement took over the party. We will never have someone in office who thinks or legislates like Ron Paul because not only are his policies bad for the wealthy but they’re bad for everyone else as well. Sure he sounds good when he spends an hour preparing for a 5 minute flame to a foreign advisor but when you boil all his rhetoric down you get nothing new from him. All his ideals have been said before and will be said again and again until they realize the majority of the population disagrees with them. He had the largest internet and grassroots effort at the start of the primaries and note how fast he lost.
Also, imagine if the United States was the only major country to NOT send aid to other counties after natural disasters or if we didnt’ help allies recover after being attacked. We’d look pretty silly and no country would want to be our military or political ally.
Another thing that *edited*es me off alot, we have the strongest and fastest responding military on the planet, why we’d want to pretend or act otherwise is beyond me but he consistantly talks about how we own an “empire” and then turns around and talks about how depleted and weak our military is. You can’t say we pwn others all the time and then talk about how weak we are, it just doesn’t make sense to most.
On his domestic policies, sure we need to focus on the needs of our own people but how exactly do we do that? You can’t hand out money to just the poor as there would be no encouragement to get wealthy. You can’t give away healthcare to the poor as it won’t be good or fair to those who pay $10,000/year for it. You can’t give away food because oh wait we already do. Most poor in this country have the ability to make something of themselves if they care or try. FAFSA? [/argument]
Right now all Paul is doing is stealing voters and while that’s all well and good it certainly doesn’t get you any closer to winning. All it does is make someone alot more popular in the party lose.