I voted for Ron Paul today in VA. I'll be voting for him in November, no matter who they put on the ballot.

Paul is against the exercise of political power overseas unless it is in the interests of corporate bodies.

His foreign policy and economic platforms are 200 years too late. Whatever nuggets of merit his positions have, are drowned in a sea of raw sewage. He is still hero to the stupid.

The man's view of freedom only extend to companies and not personal liberties. He would encourage discrimination at the level where it happens most often (state and local levels). He encourages the destruction of the middle class and working class by removing all protections to them.

The only reason anyone takes him seriously now is the GOP race is so pathetic this election cycle. Its like watching the performances of the latter plays of Marquis de Sade. The perverse performed by the insane.

Even his touted ending the war on drugs is a bullcrap platform. He would only end it at a federal level, this means states will decide to go "full amsterdam" or "full Rockefeller" or something in between.

He is a racist and proud of it. He wants ultimate federal power so he could destroy it.

Ron Paul's common sense foreign policy ideas put to shame, the support Israel at all cost dogma, of the rest of the pathetic cast that comprises the republican candidates.

Then again its not difficul to look brilliant when you argue foerign policey with likes of Bachmann, Santorum and Gingrich. Fools that publicly declare that the US should get Israel's permission before formulating any foreign policy regarding the middle east.

Thank you Mr. Preble for a very fair summation of Dr. Paul's positions and his impact on the foreign policy dicussion. It has been beyond frustrating to have folks say "I like RP on everything but his foreign policy"--even though RP's FP is one of the strongest pieces of his platform.

Hey Spood, why don't you go join the Reserves...maybe you'll get the pleasure of fighting in one of the wars that Ron Paul is against "for all the wrong reasons". All I know is that if we'd listened to him on foreign policy alone, we'd be $1T+ richer, and tens of thousands of folks who are dead for no reason, wouldn't be. That puts him head and shoulders above his competition to start with.

Peace be with you.

Spood we have talked before. Too much time. Walts blog. His piece on Ron Paul. Copy paste. Guys he will still be nuts by the end. Don't even bother.

Because, frankly, Romney vs. Obama?
However, really, you have to ask yourselves "where is that money to bomb Iran/send people to the moon/smash China (or whatever they can think of) coming from?"
And Paul is absolutely right on that one! We are broke. How are these empty promises that others claim going to be kept?

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As the article points out, American people are increasingly getting educated about the corrupt political establishment. They realize that our foreign policy and financial industries have been hijacked by the zionist supremacists that use the massive fraud on Wall Street (as protected by the FED) to finance the lobby system in Washington and use it to drag us from war to war. The establishment which is highly dependent on this corrupt system and votes from the angry old white men is dying out. The young generation and the immigrants do not want unending wars on behalf of an Apartheid state and wasting trillions to bailout the banks.
Ron Paul might not win but what he stands for will only gain more traction.

Ron Paul has these two things going against him: intelligence and common sense. He is brilliant, down-to-earth and no-nonsense. I appreciate that, coming from a Marine Corps background. With more laws, and offices/personnel to administer and enforce those laws, comes more expenses, stress and exertion. There was a time when the bureaucracy that today micromanages the daily lives of the country's citizens was much more basic, a time when simple intelligence and common sense (and significantly more personal and corporate discipline and ethical behavior) ruled the daily lives of people. I think you could also say the natural principle of "survival of the fittest" applied then; but that has now been replaced by mandated survival of everyone, ensured by the government. Intelligence and common sense are no longer necessary nor even desired in either political party. Nay, these attributes are considered too radical in a candidate for the President of the United States of America.

everyone knows what this cat is all about...he disguises it well, but when one drills down, you find the swamp he comes from....isolationism/jew hate/anti immigrant.

he is a national disgrace.

Hello,

I heard Senator Rand Paul (Ron Paul's son) speak on TV the other night. He stated emphatically that he would explain his father's position on Iran if the others on the program would just give him a moment. They did and this is what he said:

"My father's position is that he is opposed to Iran getting a nuclear bomb, but that if they do Iran should be contained."

Trust me. I am not quoting out of context. That is exactly what he said.

Certain obvious conclusions can be drawn from the son's allegedly authorized statement:

1) Ron Paul's opposition to an Iranian nuclear bomb capability is verbal only. Sure, like every other decent American, Mr. Paul does not want Iran to get the bomb. But as President, he would take no specific action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb capability.

2) In the event that Iran succeeds in getting the bomb - a possibility which he clearly envisions - Mr. Paul thinks the right action then is to contain them. As everyone knows, containment was the policy of the West towards the Soviet Union and its fundamental pillar was MAD, mutual assured destruction.

3) This implies that Mr. Paul thinks containment is possible, even viable in the case of Iran. What does he think containment looks like in the case of Iran? Mr. Paul doesn't say.

4) Mr. Paul offers no answer to the many experts who feel containment will not work to prevent threats to the security of the United States or Israel, because Iran, as the world's largest sponsor of terrorism, could secretly give a bomb to a terrorist and the first anyone would know about it is when it was blown up in the middle of an American or Israeli city. Even as millions were vaporized or lay dead in the streets, we would never know where the bomb had come from.

5) Finally, if such a calamity were to occur it would obviously be devastating to the USA and terminally life-threatening to the entire state of Israel. Mr. Paul's response, if he is relying on containment, is to say that only then would he act in retaliation against Iran, probably blowing up one or more of their cities. The point is that, containment means MAD, so if Israel or the US were attacked while Mr. Paul were president, only then would Iran suffer any consequences. And given Mr. Paul's other statements on foreign policy, he would only act in retaliation if he could prove beyond a doubt that the bomb that exploded had come from Iran and even then only after a declaration of war from Congress. Given the improbability of attaining such proof, that makes it unlikely that Iran would have to suffer from a retaliation. In any case, it would be little comfort to Israel after it had been wiped off the earth, or to one of the American cities after it had been attacked, to know that a million or more innocent Iranian citizens had also been killed thanks to the evil actions of a small number of mullas in Iran.

Whatever Ron Paul's other merits as a candidate might be - and I think they are many - the scenario his stated policy paints, is just simply too frightening to contemplate.

I also get Ron Paul's newsletter in the mail every month. In a recent edition he specifically stated the US should withdraw its membership from the United Nations. Now we all know the UN has some serious, serious flaws. But does anyone think international diplomacy and politics will be made any better by a flat-out US withdrawal from the UN? Really?

I, for one, support much of what Mr. Paul says about the economy, sound money, eliminating the debt, and so forth. He shows much wisdom and credibility in these areas. Unfortunately, his ideas on foreign policy go too far and would represent a danger to the US, to Israel, and to much of the rest of the world.

Sincerely,
Ed Price

votes in American elections, Ron Paul will the clear winner. Who doesn't want a fool to be American president. OK, W was an idiot but he wasn't foolish.

Interesting that the people opposed to Ron Paul here seem to be the usual rabid Israel supporters.

What's more fascinating is that these are the same people who routinely express bigotry, call for war and killings, yet have the nerve to call Paul a "racist".

I guess if you don't repeat the, support Israel at all cost, dogma of the current republican establishment then you must be racist.

One of the main reasons the Lobby opposes Ron Paul is because he is the only person speaking against the massive fraud being committed by the FED and Wall Street. Since majority of the funding for the Lobby comes from the Lobby, they will do anything they can to shut him off.
Great majority of the people in America disapprove of the FED, the Congress and the Wars in the middle East. It is only a matter of time until the population connects the dots and rises up against the enemy from within.

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I always put Ron Paul on the back burner. He never went away but I never took him seriously either until this election cycle. Then I did my due diligence.

First, there are some things on which I agree with RP. But there are some things that I agree with Al Sharpton on.

I'm a lot closer to RP on FP than I am with W or Obama. Still he's too reflexively isolationist.

He's opposed to the drug war as are most sentient adults that don't have a vested interest in the prison industry.

I don't agree with his Hayek economics at all. Libertarian nonsense. Not even libertarian. Just drivel.

Lastly should have been firstly. He started and financed his political career as a cryptoracist and he's still a StormFront fellow traveler. And that's where he loses me permanently.

I find Paulians to be cultists. No matter what he's on record for having done, no matter what people say, it's a conspiracy. Sorry, he's a Lyndon LaRouche for the libertarian set.

A lot of people confuse non-intervention with isolationism. There are differences.

Just because some bad characters support a particular candidate, that does not necessarily mean said candidate agrees with them in return.

Unless that is you can prove that the candidate is pandering to those groups.

Hey spood, eat sh*t!

Ron Paul is the only candidate who predicted and warned against the economic crisis, who understood and explained the reasons for it, and who offers a viable solution. when he says he wants to bring our troops home and scale down our unsustainable and unreasonable empire.
Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535? on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren

Ron Paul is the only candidate who predicted and warned against the economic crisis, who understood and explained the reasons for it, and who offers a viable solution. when he says he wants to bring our troops home and scale down our unsustainable and unreasonable empire.
Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535? on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren