That first clip is... Kinda funny "What will you do about rising costs of birth control and HPV vaccines?" "Stop printing so many dollars of course!" Some vague attack against the current health care setup and a more concrete attack against subsidies, two attacks I'm inclined to agree with. And as much as I love the idea of letters of marque, he seems to think they're some panacea, when... Well, think about it. The government is either cooperating with us, in which case we're not nationbuilding with our soldiers if we sent them in, or against us, in which case our mercenaries need to battle not only Al Qaeda, but governmental forces as well. That'll go over REAAAAL well, I'm sure...
I swear, whoever wins should listen well to Ron Paul in an advisory capacity. I can see his sincerity, but I don't think he sees the entire picture. I love his answer to "what would you do to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and deal with the regimes that benefit from it?" Long story short: "I wouldn't." Sorry Ron, bad call. The market only responds to financial forces, not strategic forces. Finally, deal breaker, his effectively saying "I'm not going to do anything in Darfur, and I wouldn't have done anything in Rwanda either." Nuh-uh, not on my ballot. I don't say "don't intervene," I say "intervene smarter." But that's me, and that's my vote. Though I think he gets great credit for highlighting the poor utilization of aid to Africa, where the warlords there merely use it to gain power.