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Agh, I read it wrong. I thought it asked, which one do I like the BEST" and selected Ron Paul when it actually meant, the LEAST. Sorry Ron Paul! Ron Paul is my favorite though! But I suppose Bachmann would be my least favorite. She comes off as being an attention seeker to me.
So tough to choose but I had to pick Cain because he is playing the race card even though conservatives were outrage because some liberals played the race card with Obama plus his stupid 999 increase taxes plan.
In politics, "wrong" tends to be a matter of personal perception/beliefs. Dr. Paul is quite the intelligent man as well, but some of the others....not so much. If Dr. Paul could just be a little more realistic on foreign policy, I believe he would gain far more supporters. He makes a lot of foreign policy points I agree with, but I would be a bit nervous of his approach if push comes to shove so to speak.
What's unrealistic about his foreign policy? It's the only sustainable foreign policy out there. What's unrealistic is thinking we can continue to manage this global war machine in perpetuity. What's unrealistic is thinking that we can continue to stick our noses in the affairs of every foreign nation on earth and attempt to dictate what everyone else does and not expect to make any enemies.
Any so called "small government conservative" that supports our ever expanding war machine is laughable at best. War is the health of the state. The more war we have the more we expand the government. We go into these undeclared unConstitutional wars and they never end, we create more and more enemies and the state uses that as an excuse to grab more and more power and diminish our rights. War is expensive so we either have to raise taxes or have the Fed print more money. This causes inflation which is a tax in and of itself, a tax primarily paid by the poor.
As a "tradeoff" Democratic "opponents" of war demand handouts at home. They demand more welfare, more state control of the economy. Republicans gladly go along and our welfare/warfare state only gets bigger. Meanwhile the state rigs the system so the banking cartels and the MIC contractors reap all of the benefits. Meanwhile the rest of us are forced to deal with an economy that's in the tank and a weakened dollar that's so overinflated that it's on the verge of being worthless.
Anyone who calls Ron's foreign policy "crazy" or "unrealistic" is at best mistaken, at worst a liar. What most Americans fail to see is that foreign policy and domestic policy are joined at the hip, they are two sides of the same coin. How many rights must the state trample on, how many lives must we lose in illegal undeclared wars of aggression, and how crappy is our economy going to get before America wakes up and smells the coffee? Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, etc none of them have the slightest clue as to how we got to this point in our nation and none of them have the foggiest idea of how to get us out of this mess. The establishment and the status quo are the crazy ones.
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