No one requires perfection. However when the candidate in question makes the core of his campaign being that he ALWAYS votes the constitution with such a fervor as Paul has, and there is such a glaring example of him NOT doing that it makes for a hypocrite.
Which candidate do you support? Let's see how much they follow the constitution compared to Ron Paul. Care to play? I assure you without reservation that Ron Paul would look like a founding father to the candidate whom I most assuredly assume you are voting for. But, hey, let's play if you dare.
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More importantly however, I can't stand Paul's diatribe about how the war was unconstitutional. I'm sorry, but the constitution doesn't require wars to be moral, wise or just. It merely requires congress to sign off on it, and they did so here.
Have you actually read the constitution stage 2? You do realize, then, that the constitution calls for a declaration of war, not that the congress "sign off" on it. The "declaration of war" was intentional as a "higher bar" so that it would keep us out of trifle conflicts. If you would like, I can post that part of the constitution here for you to read.
I shudder to think that some people think we should just allow our leaders to ignore the constitution without questioning them.
Darn'd pesky constitution.
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Thats funny. I don't recall Reagan saying that if we left europe, that the soviets would just go home.
Soviets? Oh. You mean Russia.
Well, some of our leaders do want us to police the world at US taxpayer expense. I guess you are among those who believes that we need troops in Germany, and Italy, and Japan, and Iraq, and Kuwait, and South Korea, and Pakistan (oh yes, they're there) and Georgia, and the Ukraine, and Britain, and Saudi Arabia, and..... did I leave a country out???
All of that empire is costly. It is impossible to sustain on the backs of the American people.