The Paulites and others have complained about the lack of attention for Sen. Ron Paul as a serious contender for the presidency. They believe he’s being ignored. OK then, let’s not ignore him.
Because the Paul campaign is not just a campaign for president. This is a campaign — a serious campaign — to re-educate the American people to an alternate universe of reality. A campaign that goes far beyond whatever will happen at the polls in 2012…
..Looming over the interesting and appealing ideas of the Paul campaign is a veritable political tornado of allegations involving anti-Semitism, racism, pacifism, far left-wingism and, at the edges, a tiny flicker of intimidation.
The above excerpt is from an article in The American Spectator by Jeffrey Lord;
Ron Paul and the Neoliberal Reeducation Campaign
Most true conservatives tend to ignore Paul as kind of crazy but mostly irrelevant. However, when you drill down into his philosophy a bit, things start to look a little more sinister.
To be fair, Sen. Paul’s fiscal positions do appeal to most conservatives. But his foreign policies lean decidedly left. Lord suggests a new label to adequately reflect Paul’s species of political animal; a “Neo-Liberal.” Or even a “Quasi-Conservative”.
Non-interventionism – that is, the idea that anybody else’s business is none of our business – can be downright dangerous. We learned that lesson in World War II and we shouldn’t forget it now that technology is virtually shrinking the globe. Now that nuclear weapons can cross oceans in minutes.
If your next-door neighbor is building bombs in his garage and ranting about your maple tree dropping leaves on his lawn, ignoring him is probably not the safest course of action.
But beyond Paul’s wrong-headed isolationist ideas are more nefarious tendencies. Reviewing 20th century history, Lord points out how non-interventionists always end up with a need to scapegoat their opposition. “(It) appears to be inevitable when the core premise of non-interventionism is that some dark force somewhere is pushing America into an unconstitutional interventionist war.” And somehow the “dark force” of choice is usually… the Jews.
And then there’s the bashing of staunch conservatives. Paul’s supporters have attacked at various times; Reagan, Palin, Justices Thomas and Scalia, Limbaugh and Levin.
I believe Lord’s article provides an answer my initial question. With Ron Paul we’re way beyond “annoying”, headed directly into “menace” territory.
Once we’re finally rid of the Master of Disaster in D.C. we’ll need a replacement who has both eyes open to the reality of evil in the world. A leader – not a Blamer-in-Chief. One with the courage and conviction to protect America from potential threats to its security, next door – or on the other side of the globe.
That ain’t Ron Paul.
