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What are you trying to say? Are you denying that Reagan (while he was alive) had endorsed RP?
What are you trying to say? Are you denying that Reagan (while he was alive) had endorsed RP?
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.
There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism—government.
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression -- to preserve freedom and peace.
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
In the weeks immediately after the (Beirut) bombing, I believed the last thing we should do was turn tail and leave. If we did that, it would say to the terrorists of the world that all it took to change Americans foreign policy was to murder some Americans. If we walked away, we'd also be giving up on the moral commitment to Israel that had originally sent our marines to Lebanon. We'd be abandoning all the progress made during almost two years of trying to mediate a settlement in the Middle East. We'd be saying that the sacrifice of those marines had been for nothing. We'd be inviting the Russians to supplant the United States as the most influential superpower in the Middle East. After more than a year of fighting and mounting chaos in Beirut, the biggest winner would be Syria, a Soviet client. Yet, the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there....
In the months and the years that followed, our experience in Lebanon led to the adoption by the administration of a set of principles to guide America in the application of military force abroad, and I would recommend it to future presidents. The policy we adopted included these principles:
-The United States should not commit its forces to military action overseas unless the cause is vital to our national interest.
-If the decision is made to commit our forces to combat abroad, it must be done with the clear intent and support needed to win. It should not be a halfway or tentative commitment, and there must be clearly defined and realistic objectives.
-Before we commit our troops to combat, there must be reasonable assurance that the cause we are fighting for and the actions we take will have the support of the American people and Congress. (We all felt that the Vietnam War had turned into such a tragedy because military action had been undertaken without sufficient assurances that the American people were behind it.)
-Even after all these other tests are met, our troops should be committed to combat abroad only as a last resort, when no other choice is available.
Ron Paul is most definitely not a "middle of the road" candidate. He's probably the most radical candidate currently running in the race for president.
Despite that (or perhaps because of it) Ron Paul has supporters in almost all political camps. Conservatives will vote for him. Libertarians will vote for him. Liberals will vote for him. Centrists will vote for him. Anarchists (it they'll vote at all) will vote for him. Probably the only bunch that wouldn't vote for Ron Paul would be Authoritarians.
No other candidate has such a broad spectrum of support. No other candidate can unite persons from such diverse groups.
This gives him an advantage over all the rest. Unlike the other candidates, Ron Paul is a uniter...not a divider.
The other candidates will divide the vote sharply along partisan lines. Ron Paul has no such handicap.
I was just trying to get a feel for who the people opposed to RP support... so far, it seems to me they mainly support Giuliani, which would make since, as Giuliani's authoritarianism would diametrically opposed to Paul's libertarianism.
IMO it just makes the RP supporters look desperate; trying to get someone elected that they know in the back their minds doesn't have a chance.
You mean "name recognition", not "support". "Support" = committed voters, volunteers, donors, and straw poll voters.
but Dr. Paul has endorsements from Ronald Reagan, Pat Buchanan, Michael Badnarik, Michael Scheuer, Barry Goldwater jr, Chuck Baldwin, Jim Klymer, Kinky Friedman, David Letterman....and the list goes on.
And speaking of donations, how's that coming along? I understand he picked up 1 million last quarter. How's he doing this quarter? 'Cuz Paul picked up over 5 million last quarter and is already edging 8 million this quarter.
Nice to know. Maybe soon he'll have actual attendees at his speaking engagements and he'll start performing on par with Paul in the straw polls.
Of course, I doubt it.
I was just trying to get a feel for who the people opposed to RP support... so far, it seems to me they mainly support Giuliani, which would make since, as Giuliani's authoritarianism would diametrically opposed to Paul's libertarianism.
That explains things then.It seems to me that RP "opposers" mainly support not having another President Clinton for the rest of time.
but Dr. Paul has endorsements from Ronald Reagan, Pat Buchanan, Michael Badnarik, Michael Scheuer, Barry Goldwater jr, Chuck Baldwin, Jim Klymer, Kinky Friedman, David Letterman....and the list goes on