There’s not a dimes worh of differnce between Benito (Rudy) or Lazy Thompson, and Countress Bathory(Hitery) or Dip-stick galore Obama. There isn’t a differnce one bit. Big Governent, Higher Taxes, more Undeclared Wars fought under so-called UN “orders”.

“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” Ronald Reagan said that. You guys remember him right? Or has he been replaced by Woodrow Wilson?

You probably should have put a language warning on the link to my post. Paul’s latest bout of insanity sent me over the edge.

If I were China I would use economic means. The U.S. is a consumer nation and does not have enough sense to only purchase what they can buy so they would easily get into dept to me.

You’re right. That is a realistic scenario. I just so happens that Dr. Paul talks about this regularly. Here is one such example.

I would also use third parties such as N.Korea, Iran, Sudan and Burma to cause the U.S. to spend more money.

Yes. So why is it that most of our politicians are encouraging us to take the bait?

We could not even handle their numbers during the Korean war and that was without the technology they have obtained from us in the meantime.

Depends on the location. I said “conquer”, so I was implying that they would defeat us here.

Numerical superiority wouldn’t help them much in that case. They would need air and naval superiority in order to capitalize on their numerical advantage. That’s certainly possible (probably even inevitable), but not in the reasonable future.

Fred Thompson made his debate debut in the 2008 Republican presidential campaign Tuesday, then blend

Good idea! We’ll just nuke any country off the face of the earth if it even dares touch us. Nuclear fallout and/or retaliatory consequences be damned!

He said “could”, not “should”. His point is that we have many layers of defenses. If you disagree, I would love to hear you outline the strategy by which a country such as Iran (or even China) could conquer us.

Iraq had a significant military…Iran also has a significant military

Those statements are truly only in the sense that Nigeria doesn’t have a significant military. Neither Iraq, nor Iran, have, had, or will have a military that can seriously challange, let alone defeat any industrial nation, let alone us.

Paul wants to get rid of the CIA

Be careful not to twist this. It’s the bureaucracy he wants to eliminate, not the function. He has stated clearly on national TV that he believes the gathering of foreign intelligence is a necessary and proper function of the federal government.

Taking in all those positions in addition to others mentioned earlier just emphasizes the fact that he does not take into consideration how implementing the ideas that he’s presenting will affect the world…their beliefs seem to be largely divorced from any sort of real world impact that may occur or the political reality that has to be dealt with.

You can win pats on the back for your purity or you can accomplish something in the political arena, but you usually can’t do both. Ron Paul does not seem to have figured that out.

John Hawkins has clearly not read past the headlines.

I have devoured virtually every public word spoken by Dr. Paul in the past 6 months, and I have heard absolute nothing that led me to believe that he expected to create anything remotely resembling a libertarian utopia in the next 8 years, let alone 4. He knows full well that the monstrosity that is our federal government took decades to build and would take decades to dismantle.

The Ron Paul campaign is about changing the direction of the federal government, not about taking a sledgehammer to it.