Another Ron Paul Letter in the HSV Times
Posted by BrianRelated content:Even though I think the characterization of people as liberal and conservative is overused, I feel it is necessary to respond to Elbert H. Sanders’ Aug. 10 letter.
Sanders claimed presidential candidate, Congressman Ron Paul is a “wild-eyed liberal” and he “has no idea why he is running for president as a Republican.”
In Paul’s 10 terms in the House of Representatives, he has never voted to raise taxes, never voted for an unbalanced budget and never voted to raise congressional pay. Along with his stellar record in Congress, he has earned the nonpartisan National Taxpayers Union’s annual award as a “Taxpayers’ Friend” for the 10th consecutive year in 2006. He was one of four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president against Gerald Ford in 1976.
Perhaps the more interesting and possibly more historically Republican issue on Paul’s platform is a humble foreign policy. Traditionally, Republican presidents have been elected to bring unpopular wars to an end. Eisenhower and Nixon were both elected to end the Korean and Vietnam wars.
In fact, George W. Bush ran a campaign in 2000 that was highly critical of Clinton’s policies of “policing the world.” The American people are yearning for an end to this endless war in Iraq. If any Republican candidate plans to run in the general election on a continuation of President Bush’s Iraq policy; then they are surely wasting their time.
Matt E. Delaplane,
Harvest, 35749
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Wow, great letter. j/k
I enjoyed the conversation on the Dale Jackson show this afternoon. Maybe the straw poll, letters, activities and such are paying off in a way.
I thought Dale was fair and pretty open minded for a talk show host. I can definately respect his position that most of the front runners stink. He likes Duncan Hunter, which I can respect. At least Duncan has some integrity and the betterment of the country at heart. The others are only in for their ego.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:53 pm
One more thing. Seriously, how does the GOP expect to win if they “stay the course”. The GOP is in the doghouse in a major way, and I don’t see any chance of them in the whitehouse unless it is Ron Paul.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:27 am
I’ve tried to make the point before that if the GOP wants to retain the White House they cannot nominate a candidate who parrots Bush’s war policy. They can continue to wrongly assert that foreign intervention is a conservative, Republican policy and they will lose badly.
The only exception would be Huckabee, who supports the war, but can effectively undermine the Democrats demagoguery of capitalism and capture some of the populist vote since he seems more “Main Street” than Romney, Giuliani, etc.