Perry, Paul Show Stark Differences in GOP Debate
The disagreements between U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Surfside, and all of his GOP presidential opponents were apparent very early in CNN's national security debate Tuesday night with a question about the success of the Patriot Act. After former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the law an important tool in limiting terrorist attacks, Paul drew a smattering of applause when he said the act is unpatriotic because it undermines our liberty.
Audio: Ben Philpott's story for KUT News
“Today it seems too easy that our government and our congresses are so willing to give up our ...
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Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Are you kidding me? The debate showed they have differrences? Who'd a thunk it?
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ones crazy, the other is as dumb as a bag of hair.
Charles Burris
Ron Paul is the most decisive, authoritative, and substantive conservative candidate on the crucial national security issues facing our nation. Americans have always rooted for the heroic underdog, the principled David facing down Goliath. By standing out from the pack of neocon clone candidates in the recent CNN National Security Debate co-sponsored by the Beltway’s two leading neocon organizations, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, Ron Paul once again proved his forthright courage, his dedication to first principles and to the United States Constitution and the rule of law.
Never forget that these were same duplicitous neocons that beat the propaganda war drums of “weapons of mass destruction” in the failed war in Iraq. Many of the neocon questioners cowering in the audience (such as Paul Wolfowitz) were the very same Bush administration neocons who orchestrated and lied to the American people about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ron Paul is our Cicero, our defender of the republic, a statesman of unblemished character and principled judgment. The twelve-term congressman has for decades courageously spoken out for a conservative foreign policy based upon a strong national defense of the essential core principles of liberty and justice as established by the Framers, a defense of the territorial integrity of the United States and its national borders. Peace, prudential diplomacy, international trade and commerce, and the free exchange of ideas are the key elements to a Constitutional foreign policy. Only by setting an exemplary example to the world will the United States of America once again become "the exceptional nation," that "shining city upon a hill."
Ron Paul is first and foremost a realist. America is financially bankrupt due to decades of reckless fiscal and monetary policies pursued by the Fed, the Congress, and the Executive branch of the state. Paul's measured conservative program of strategic disengagement from the unconstitutional pre-emptive wars of the past decade, coupled with a serious analytical reassessment of the imperial over-reach of 900 military bases in 130 nations, is the only wise course dictated by this unsustainable debt situation.