When Ron Paul doesn't get the nomination, I will either vote Libertarian or write Paul in, depending on who the Libertarian candidate is. I haven't investigated the latter yet.
I simply cannot in good conscience vote for the warmonger McCain. A lot of Americans, being sheltered from the effects of war, don't mind perpetuating it and then watching it on TV. This is wrong. No one should support a war unless it's a war of
necessity rather than a war of choice -- meaning that you are
so certain that our nation's future depends on it that would be willing to die yourself in that war or even have your family members die in it, if necessary.
I also don't like McCain on a number of domestic issues. He would be better on that score than a Democrat, of course, but probably not much better.
Am I worried about losing my guns under Hillary? No. It's not up to her, Congress, or anyone else whether I keep my guns. As I keep saying, if people comply new gun bans, then they deserve to lose their freedom. You will retain the freedom that YOUR courage merits.
You folks are about as whacked as paul is if you think he has a remote chance of being President. Our fault that the extremists attacked us???? paul is zipped!!!!!!!!! He thinks it is OUR fault that they have been attacking us!!!!!!!! GET A GRIP, PEOPLE!
I think you might be the one who should get a grip, my friend. No need to yell like that.
US foreign policy absolutely was the reason why extremists attacked us. They don't "hate us for our freedom." They've told us why they hate us: because of our one-sided support for Israel apartheid, our propping up of Arab puppet dictatorships, and our military presence in places like Saudi Arabia.
Experts on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, most notably
Michael Scheuer, have concurred with this assessment. And traditional conservatives such as Pat Buchanan predicted prior to 9/11 that our foreign policy would lead to a catastrophic attack on our soil.
This isn't rocket science. There's a reason why Muslim extremists hate the US rather than, say, Mexico. It's because Israel-first groups like AIPAC and JINSA have a stranglehold on our foreign policy.
None of this
justifies the 9/11 attacks or other attacks on civilians, mind you. It merely explains them. At the same time, the US government
should change its foreign policy -- not out of fear, but because it's often immoral and hypocritical.