I'm in a heated debate with someone I am trying to convert. Here's what he wrote to me this morning:
"As for ronpaul, I have done the research on him, and he has repeatedly allowed his ideology to sabotage his own ideals.
He's always been a fan of reducing the size of government, yet voted WITH the dumbascraps AGAINST a bill which would have reduced some departments - because he didn't feel it cut their size ENOUGH! In essence, rather than make some small progress, his vote allowed the government to grow even MORE....that bill failed by ONE VOTE...HIS!
I've also heard ronpaul's own words during the debates.
He advocates an Isolationist policy that would have our troops back here in the States rather than over where the enemy is...sure sounds nice, but it verifiably WILL NOT WORK....remember Pearl Harbor? 9/11?
I don't want to fight the terrorists on Main Street, USA when I can be hunting them where THEY live. Wars are won by taking the initiative and going on the offense, not cowering in defense and hoping the bear eats the other campers first and saves us for last....
If we had followed ronpaul's interpretation of the Constitution over the past 100 years, the Allies would have LOST WW2, Japan would currently be dominating Pacific Asia and China, Germany and Italy would have taken over Europe (and most of the Middle East!), and America would NOT be a "Superpower".
As for us "policing the world", if not us, WHO?
Trust me, SOMEONE would be...that is the nature of humans...thus, if we'd stayed out of WW2, WE would currently be being "policed" by the Imperialist Japan and Nazi Germany.
I'm damned GLAD we threw away the suicidally naive concept of Isolationism - which kept us out of WW2 long enough for Hitler and Tojo to kill 100's of thousands of Asians and Europeans in the late 1930's while we foolishly believed we were "safe". That same kind of mind-set allowed over 3000 Americans to be murdered on 9/11.
MILLIONS of people are alive - and FREE - because we got RID of the "ostrich ideal"....both in the 1940's, and today.
How many will be enslaved/killed in the future if we take it up again?
ronpaul's cockeyed ideals bear one very real similarity to those of communism - not that he's a leftist or a socialist, but in that there is one very significant common factor: his ideals and those of communism BOTH "look good on paper" (true communism is really a pretty good idea), however, NEITHER of those ideologies take into account human nature, thus BOTH are forever doomed to self-destructive impracticality.
Neither will ever work in the real world, and both will cost people their lives."
I can easily rebuke everything here except the vote against reducing the size of government.
Can anyone help me out here? I can't find anything on it. Is my friend full of $#@!?
Is there a website that compares each candidate's voting record?
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