2012-01-06, 05:22 PM
Coogi Wrote:This guy is what America needs. A lot of people don't like him because of his foreign policy but it's really not that bad. Everyone's worried and "thinking" RP "wants" Iran to have Nukes, Lol. Iran is nothing but talk, look how many years we have been going through this with them. Iran WANTS us to attack them, they would never dream of attacking us because they can't.Foreign policy that presumes opponents won't ever accomplish their goals is rather shortsighted.
Quote:If they attack Israel let them defend themselves...can a country defend themselves for once?Just like Britain in WW2, I take it
It's impressive someone could be so libertarian and yet be so utterly repulsive in terms of foreign policy as to alienate 70%+ of the Republican primary vote, but hey, Ron Paul really is something.
Let me put it this way, Romney repulses a plurality of Republican voters for being utterly fluid on every issue - they feel they can't trust him. Paul repulses Republican voters for the inverse reason - you know exactly where he stands on everything and a number of those stands are horrific, there's no room for you to hope he won't do something stupid because he already promises he will. You have to agree with him on everything or you are guaranteed he will do something severe you are opposed to. There's an even more basic problem with Paul that's related to this one, and it's why if it was only a Romney or Paul vote for the nomination, I'd vote Romney:
President Romney may do something you disagree with. President Paul is going to try to do something most disagree with, get stonewalled in Congress, and be completely incapable of compromise or actual politics. He's refreshing to his supporters for the exact reason he'd be inert in executive office. And Republicans don't want inertia on the tail end of Obama's presidency, they're going to want action. Even if it's of the wishy washy Romney variety.

