Kyle Hagner needs to do more research

Kyle Hagner of The Purdue Exponent writes up an unsavory opinion of Ron Paul in the 11/27 issue.

Should we go over the obvious differences?

First of all, Ron Paul is not an isolationist. You may think he is, but he is advocating a non-intervention policy. This means establishing friendly relations with other nations, free trade, and open travel, maximizing the exchanges of goods and services and ideas.

We want to stop meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Of course we want to defend our country from outside attack, but does that mean putting troops and bases in almost every country in the world? This is a sign of an empire, not a democracy.

Eliminating the IRS would be quite a task to achieve, but losing 100,000 jobs because of it would be greatly offset by the amount of money we can save without hiring a tax analyst or the amount of bloody taxes to the federal government. I would have thought paying much less in taxes is a good thing for the American taxpayer.

As for saying that every racist, anti-Semite, neo-Nazi, and Holocaust denier are supporting Ron Paul seems far-fetched. Who knows if I can try to find a financial contributer to Mitt Romney, Giuliani, Obama, or Clinton, and they somehow have ties to some far-radical group. It is just so happens that the author on American Thinker went to great lengths to find certain individuals with radical and racist links that have donated to the Ron Paul campaign.

At one recent campaign stop, Ron Paul did say he did not believe that 9/11 was an inside job.

Saying that Ron Paul is hiding behind the internet is a cheapshot.

Some of Ron Paul's ideas are definitely not radical. He wants a more limited federal government, something that the 1990's Republicans were strongly in favor of, but were led astray when they took over Congress and became mad with power and money. He even wants certain federal departments and agencies to be eliminated because of bureaucratic red tape. There are times where we do not need to abide by federal standards when there are sufficient state standards that are in place.

Civil liberties must be protested. The Constitution must be protected. These are not radical ideas either.

I feel it is quite peculiar to see bloggers and opinionists use the radical racists and conspiracy theorists to denounce Ron Paul, instead of actually looking over his campaign ideas and goals and analyzing them in more detail.