Washington Post Interviews Ron Paul
In an interview with Washingtonpost.com's PostTalk program, the Texas congressman said he could see "no reason" to justify military action if he were elected president. He compared the United States to a schoolyard bully and said the country has no reason to flex its muscles overseas.
"There's nobody in this world that could possibly attack us today," he said in the interview. "I mean, we could defend this country with a few good submarines. If anybody dared touch us we could wipe any country off of the face of the earth within hours. And here we are, so intimidated and so insecure and we're acting like such bullies that we have to attack third-world nations that have no military and have no weapon."
As for the idea for Ron Paul to run as a third-party candidate, he has no plans to do so because the current system is undemocratic and so biased against third-parties, so Paul would need a Ross Perot infusion of cash, and enough volunteers to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states. Hmm, I wonder if Perot, Bloomberg, and others are interested in helping him out...
National Review also does a take on Ron Paul too.
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Comments
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: October 12, 2007 02:06 PM
Well, Ron's been there, done that, with an actual third party even, and of course he's absolutely right. Note that he didn't rule it out entirely. But he'd have to be an LP/Constitution/Dobsonite fusion candidate for it to work, and I don't see that happening...not when there are videos out there with Ron Paul having a hard time declaring homosexuality to be a sin :-), and not with a scad of pro-war libertarians who will toss out the 99% of Paul they like because "fighting the Islamic menace is ALL that matters right now." The limited-government Republicans have to suck it up on that too, as Paul is the only bona-fide limited-government candidate out there, but they won't...they'll pick some lifestyle nanny like Huckabee instead because they don't want to rock the boat.