2012-01-06, 07:12 PM
Exidous Wrote:Foreign policy that presumes opponents won't ever accomplish their goals is rather shortsighted.
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.
Hope he doesn't do something stupid? People only call things he's suggested because they've never even been tried before, yet we get people like Romney that just wanna do the same pomegranate we have been doing for what the last 8 years? RP would get more votes then Romney if he went against Obama. I'm not saying "hey, vote for RP because he can win and we need to get Obama out" almost every American is saying this but this is not the ONLY thing we need. This is part of the reason McCain lost, that and the fact 97% of African-Americans voted for Obama last year ( the ones that actually voted ).
RP will pull in young adults, 38% of his NEW supporters are young adults. He will obviously pull Independents in and lots of Democrats that are no longer pro Obama. The majority of Democrats would favor in no war with Iran, don't forget USA wouldn't be the only country to want to bomb the pomegranate out of Iran if they attacked Israel.
I just think we should give something a new try, not the same old pomegranate. Is there a president that didn't pineapple up in there term? Afraid not. If there wasn't we probably wouldn't be in situation we are right now. Promises were made to be broken and every president breaks a promise weather it was intended to be broke or not.
Rick Wrote:That's because you can hardly rely on Fox news for fair, balanced reporting. I read Fox news when I need a laugh. I'm serious.Yes, this is true but CNN is just as bad. Some of these media places like Fox get away with so much. They report so much false info it's hilarious.