Arc_DT posted:
-Mithan- posted:
Paul wont win. The regular GOP will never support him because he isn't for starting wars (which fund the defence industry),
This describes the GOP leadership, but I don't think it describes the rank and file. They might find Paul's position on Iran in particular a bit worrisome, but I think overall that the rank and file republican isn't keen on "policing the world" and starting wars every time someone looks at us funny. They're dumb enough to be cowed into not supporting getting OUT of anything, but Obama has taken care of that for the next president, and we'll all be happy to not be shooting at everything that moves.
I think the bigger issues for most republicans are wedge issues, or social conservatism: gay marriage, abortion, and the ilk. I don't see Paul staking out the positions that will cause the social conservatives to flock to him, but if his opposition is Romney, he's breaking even or might in fact have a very slight edge. On fiscal policy, he's definitely their man.
I don't care if Iran has nuclear bombs personally. So what?
All it does is inhibit the Wests ability to give them orders, which we shouldn't be doing anyways as they are a sovereign nation. I know there are plenty of idiots that think the US SHOULD be "taking what it wants" from other countries, but those idiots seem to have an issue when a person breaks into their house and takes their own stuff.
At the end of the day, if they were to ever use them, they would be wiped out as a country and that would be that.
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