This goes to Tom Perkins, Libertyship46 and other “conservatives” who think there is another choice.
The only two other front runners are indistinguishable from one another. They share Obama’s fundamental view on the role and authority of the government on the individual mandate and most other aspects of Obamacare. Gingrich supported Cap and Trade before it became a liability. Both have a few plans on how to trim taxes while absolutely no credible plan on how to even cut the federal deficit by 50% to a level that goes from “Greek intoxicated on Ouzo and PCP level insane” deficit spending to simply “crack whore with a stolen credit card” level of irresponsibility. They support continued aggression overseas while having no credible plans on how to fix immigration which is the only–only–major vector by which terrorists can infiltrate our borders.
Some of you don’t seem to grasp the concept of a non-interventionist. It is as simple as Ron Paul has tried to explain to you. It means we stay out of other countries’ problems. It doesn’t mean we won’t sell or lease weapons to allies or retaliate with manly forcefulness when attacked by a nation or its proxies. It means we walk softly, carrying a big stick and don’t act like the annoying scold/do-gooder.
Then there is the entire matter of the fact that neither Gingrich nor Romney have the stones or belief it is even necessary to bring the Federal Reserve to heel before Bernanke can loan another $7.7T behind Congress’ back to every bankster with sad puppy eyes and a hand out.
This election, you have to put up or shut up. If you think Gingrich or Romney are materially different from Obama in any substantial way, you are either stunningly ignorant of their actual positions or a blithering idiot. It is that simple. You cannot claim to be a person who is informed, sufficiently intelligent to juxtapose their stated positions and actually believe the deviation between them is more than them quibbling about which hairs need splitting.
Ron Paul is “crazy.” That is why we need him. We need a man who is crazy enough to actually say “damn the consequences” and order the Secretary of the Treasury to bring the full wrath of that department down on Bernanke and company. We need a man who is not only now calling for criminal charges, not charges of impeachment, against Holder, but who is more likely to ask him which Mexican prison he wants to do life in than which Mexican beach he wants to vacation at in retirement. We need a President whose slashing and burning of many career bureaucracies to reduce the federal budget is so extreme that he’s regarded as morally analogous to a serial killer by public employee unions.
Ron Paul, after Michelle Bachmann, is the only candidate crazy enough to give you the real “conservative” agenda. You want limited, financially sound government? He’s the only one with actual marching orders ready to hand out to make it happen. You want a military that is modestly large, not stationed at 700 some bases overseas, fatigued and too wary to go toe-to-toe with China if they use their military to crush our trade relations with our allies in Asia? Ron Paul is your man.
As for the issue of Israel, consider an inconvenient little fact about our foreign aid. Ron Paul is the only candidate who would stop sending foreign aid to their enemies, especially the Palestinians. Unlike Gingrich, Romney and others, Paul isn’t going to continue arming their enemies. Israel has one of the very top economies in the world and engineering capabilities that rival our own on defense matters. Israel doesn’t need our money; they need us to keep all of our foreign aid. Then there is the fact that if you look at what we’ve really done with them, and what most of their “friends” in the establishment end up doing (no matter how much they claim to be a Christian, hard on terrorism or supporter of Israel) is telling the Israelis that American support is contingent upon them castrating themselves in the face of their enemies, laying down and dying in the face of their enemies’ demands. Why do you want a non-interventionist in office? Because he would leave Israel alone to choose the defense posture its people want.
