The major arguments that I have heard against Wyoming nominating Ron Paul to be the Republican candidate for President seem to focus on these two points:
1. Ron Paul can’t be elected.
2. Ron Paul is soft on defense.
This is my reply to both of these spurious arguments.
Argument 1:
My reply to number one is that Ron Paul may not be electable, but he does come closest of all the candidates to embodying all of the policies needed to put the United States on a path that will return it to its rightful place in the world as Ronald Reagan’s “shining city on the hill” rather than keeping it on the fiscally irresponsible path to financial ruin and the consequent calamities of dissolution and/or a police state.
Rather than worrying about whether we can be part of the winning team, no matter how rah!, rah! good it may make us feel, we need to concentrate on making whoever does win the Republican nomination, AND the whole Republican establishment, aware of the principals for which Ron Paul stands so that the entire party will come to embody those principals. The stronger the showing that Ron Paul makes at the Republican Convention, the more likely those principals are to be written into the party platform and embodied by the Presidential nominee, whoever it may be.
This year, rather than playing the usual popularity contest that will enable us to bask in the juvenile touchdown glow of having picked the winner of the Republican nomination, we need to send a message to the candidates and the national Republican elitists that will put them on the path to saving the United States from the dustbin of history. Putting the Republican Party, the Republican nominee, and ultimately, the government of the United States on the path to saving liberty under Constitutional government in these United States is what is important during this election cycle! The only entity that is powerful enough to grind the socialist, elitist, corporatist Washington establishment into dust under their heel is the American people! America, this may be your last chance! Don’t waste it!
Argument 2:
It is normal (albeit disingenuous) for the brain-dead liberal pundits to bash Ron Paul for being weak on defense—after all, it's part of their job description. However, I get really upset with the neocon pundits who accuse Ron Paul of being in La La land when it comes to national defense! These pundits excoriate the Obama administration for running up the national debt and then turn around and deplore the excruciating naivety of anyone who would even think of cutting the defense budget!
Now, I don’t know if these pundits are just plain stupid or if they have lucrative links to the military-industrial complex, but they certainly don’t exhibit the intelligence that our own soldiers, sailors and airmen exhibit! The last time that I checked, Ron Paul had received more campaign donations from Americans in uniform than all the other candidates combined!
What our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers in uniform, and, I hope, most veterans like myself, seem to understand is that there is a difference between NATIONAL defense and IMPERIAL defense. Granted, even national defense isn’t cheap, but it is orders of magnitude less expensive than an imperial defense that is designed to enable the United States to stuff its big, fat nose into anyplace, anytime, for any reason in order to act like the nanny and the policeman of the whole wide world!
We must be the most paranoid people on the planet in order to justify spending as much money on our military as the next 15 biggest military spending countries in the world—and several of those countries are our allies! Actually, I don’t think that the average American is naturally paranoid, but they are sensitive to the paranoid propaganda that the military-industrial complex has become proficient at feeding us. Yes, Virginia, Dwight Eisenhower’s prophecy has been fulfilled! Fortunately, our patriots in uniform are smart enough to know that they want to protect their fellow citizens and NOT corporate bottom lines!
And finally, while we are on the topic of national defense, it seems kind of strange to me that the ONLY candidate in the running for the Republican nomination who has ever worn the uniform of this country is Ron Paul—and he is the one whose stance on defense is denigrated! Now, granted, Santorum has pointed out that his governmental service is equivalent to military service. And I will admit that dodging paper cuts and sharp remarks is serious business, but for some reason when it is compared to dodging bullets, most veterans’ blood pressure tends to rise.
Every person who has put on the uniform of the United States of America has effectively written a blank check to the nation that can be cashed for any value up to and including that person’s life. When I was in service, I accepted that as part of the price of defending what I loved and almost everyone that I served with understood it as well as I did. However, when we wrote that check, the understanding was that some proportion of those checks would be cashed for full value, but when our commanders had to cash those checks, their value would not be wasted, not be thrown away frivolously or for any purpose other than to defend the Constitution and the people living under its aegis of Liberty.
And we are to believe that Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum understand this compact better than Ron Paul who actually served time in uniform!? Frankly, if I was back in service, I would trust Ron Paul to not waste my life and those of my brothers and sisters in uniform, more so than any life-long civilian who would be more likely to regard my life and those of my comrades as pieces on a playing board!
Wyoming, do yourselves, your children, and all that follow after them a huge favor. Nominate Ron Paul to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America!
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