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    IA paper: Paul preaches nonintervention, less government

    http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/arti...30007a76fb.txt

    LAWTON, Iowa -- Pledging a return to constitutional principles, Republican Party presidential Ron Paul contended Tuesday it is time misguided economic, foreign-policy and education moves are turned around.

    So many policies or programs the federal government has enacted in recent decades don't have an origin in the Constitution, so they should be stopped, said Paul, a congressman from Texas. He cited the Federal Reserve System, federal funding for public education, federal income tax and entitlement programs such as Social Security as being outside the bounds of constitutional authority.

    Paul said he wants a government with a reduced scope similar to pre-20th century growth fueled by federal income tax revenue.

    Speaking to a crowd of 50 at Maxine's Restaurant on a steamy afternoon, Paul spoke passionately in criticizing abortion rights and the war in Iraq. It is Paul's strong anti-abortion stance that led Paul Dorr of Ocheyedan to become his Iowa campaign field coordinator.

    Dorr said he has grown weary of Republican Party officials since the mid-1990s "pandering" and paying lip service to an anti-abortion stance, then doing nothing about it while in office. That won't happen with Paul, Dorr said.

    Paul, a doctor who delivered more than 4,000 babies before serving 10 terms in Congress, introduced the Sanctity of Life Act to overturn the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade case that affirmed women's right to seek an abortion.

    On the abortion issue, Paul said, "We as a nation can't bury our heads and pretend we don't see anything." The issue is paramount, he said, since "if you don't have respect for life, you can't have a respect for liberty."

    Paul voted against the October 2002 resolution directing troops to Iraq. He said U.S. foreign policy began to go awry with President Woodrow Wilson, when he departed from the norm of having "no entangling alliances." Paul said he's not an isolationist but contended history has proved that the United States has been making poor military decisions since the Korean War. He said that since World War II, no war has been properly declared by Congress.

    "We talk to people and we trade with them and we negotiate with them, but we don't confront them and try to put tariffs on them and exclude them and threaten them, which we have drifted into," Paul said.

    He said U.S. troops are demoralized and called the $500 billion cost for the Iraq war "outrageous."

    "We have more enemies than ever before and less friends, so we have literally isolated ourselves from the world in many ways," he said.

    To those who say it's a different world fighting terrorism in the 21st century, Paul said: "If you understand why terrorists want to come here, the answer is found in a noninterventionist foreign policy. They don't go looking to bomb Switzerland; Switzerland is a free and prosperous country. They come here because we are over there, we've been in their countries for decades and we overthrow regimes, we have overthrown two recent regimes. We occupy two Arab countries. We had troops in Saudi Arabia before 9-11. Most people forget that 9-11 had nothing to do with Iraq -- they (the terrorist attackers) weren't Iraqis, they weren't Iranians, they were Saudis, 15 out of 19 were Saudis, and some from Egypt. And yet we went to war, unconstitutionally, in order to fight this argument that the al-Qaida were in Iraq. There were no al-Qaida in Iraq."

    With many of his stances seemingly more in line with Constitutional or Libertarian party principles, Paul was asked why he's with the Republican Party.

    In a system in which the process is stacked against minor parties, Paul said, "it is more practical to be a Republican."

    He added: "More importantly, my ideas, maybe at this very moment, seem to challenge the conventional wisdom of the Republican Party, but not traditionally. I'm very Republican. As recent as 2000 (George W.) Bush campaigned on a humble policy and no nation building. ... It has just been in recent years where Republicans thought that they couldn't be patriotic or couldn't be Republican unless they endorsed, unwisely, all the military activity we are doing."

    In spite of his sometimes contrary stances, Paul said he hopes Republican straw poll voters will look favorably upon his candidacy. Like a lot of other GOP candidates, he is buying $35 straw poll tickets for those who support him, up to a total of 500 people. Other candidates are placing no restrictions on the number of people they'll bring to the straw poll.

    Paul, whose polling has been in the 1 percent range, said he turns the campaigning process around. Instead of following the standard practice of telling people what he'll do for them, he said: "All I want to do is to suggest to people how they should run themselves, how the economy can function better without the pretenses of some in Washington, and how we don't need to tell other people to live. Believe me, that brings a lot of people together, you know, conservatives and liberals and constitutionalists."

    Bret Hayworth may be reached at (712) 293.4203 or brethayworth@siouxcityjournal.com
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    "This political train-wreck Republicans face can largely be traced to Bush’s philosophical metamorphosis from a traditional, non-interventionist conservative to the neoconservatives’ exemplar of a 'War President', and his positioning of the Republicans as the 'War Party'."

    Nicholas Sanchez on Bush's legacy, September 30, 2007.



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    What a clear, precise article. I particularly admired the author's allowance of Ron's counter-arguments to assertions made against him.

    Bravo!

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    The statement about Social Security will frighten more people than it attracks. I'm not sure Ron didn't explain that position better. Then again the reporter left words out of the article, there is no telling what all they omitted !!!

    Not bad coverage, just wish the policies that attrack the common voter were put forth a little more, (inflation tax,etc.).



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