[Chaossaber314]

I don't want this to sound terribly belligerent but I keep finding myself more and more Anti-Ron Paul. It's like he has a decent point but then has a crazy idea that will supposedly solve it. For instance, Yeah, we shouldn't provoke the Mid-East with entanglements or needless wars like Iraq. Ok, but his solution is to...

-pull out completely from the Middle East, which is tactically stupid. If our military is required which it is from time to time, particularly in the already unstable atmosphere, you don't simply leave. You stay back on the sidelines if and when your assistance is necessary. Along the same lines, he wants us to pull out all of our troops from foreign bases. Does the man have any idea of a concept like tactics? I can understand leaving Iraq, but closing bases around the world?

-leave NATO, and essentially ruin any relationships we've spent about the last century developing.

-leave the UN, and basically separate ourselves from any form of diplomacy with the rest of the world.

-dismantle just about all federal agencies including the CIA, FBI, NSA etc. I can understand the harsh inclination but these organizations need reform and much greater accountability, not dismantling. Furthermore, he has no solution to what we're supposed to do without these organizations. Just to eliminate them and hopefully everything will work out.

We have a clown like Bush who insults the collective mother of the world at a dinner party and is asked not to come back. This guy sounds like he's about to get drunk, feel up the party host's daughter, and piss on the dinner table. We're going to have enough problems repairing our image with the rest of the world after Bush. At the end of Bush's term we're going to have strained relationships with other nations. Paul seems to intend that we have NO relationships with other nations.

Maybe I'm completely mistaken about Paul's views. But, I just keep getting more and more underwhelmed with this internet-demigod. Also, for someone described as a strict constitutionalist, he sure doesn't seem to understand a basic introductory government course concept like the Necessary and Proper clause.

And before anyone suggests it, I'm undecided on who I'm voting for so this isn't coming from any sided bias. Perhaps I'll change my tune if I'm completely off base about what Paul is suggesting.