Ron Paul: One True Conservative
I love to watch Ron Paul shake up the Republican presidential campaign. He understands how far the Republican Party has strayed from conservative principles. Nothing exemplifies this more than the War in Iraq. Empire building isn’t compatible with smaller government. You can’t cut the cost of government while spending a trillion dollars in a foreign country. And if you refuse to raise taxes to pay for a decade long hot war, it means you’re saddling future generations with mountains of debt.
Apparently Ron Paul is the only Republican presidential candidate to have read Page 1 of the Constitution recently. As he pointed out to Mitt Romney in a recent debate, in our country Congress has the power to declare War. The current president seems to believe that he alone has the authority to launch oversees invasions and Congress is nothing more than a nuisance. Fortunately Ron Paul doesn’t see it this way. He isn’t running for King of the United States.
There’s nothing conservative about the George Bush presidency. He has modified our national defense policy to emphasize pre-emption. Through his words and actions, George Bush has made it clear that he thinks that the president has the right to launch attacks on sovereign nations if he believes that those countries may one day pose a threat to the United States. And he believes that it doesn’t matter if a majority in Congress and a majority of Americans disagree with him. As I watch candidate Ron Paul’s support grow, I’m comforted in knowing that not all Republicans have bought into this arrogant and extraordinarily dangerous world view.
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