After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism.Not going to do it, said Dr. Paul to cheers. And why should he?Observing developments in U.S. foreign and defense policy, Paul's views seem as far out in front of where America is heading as John McCain's seem to belong to yesterday's Bush-era bellicosity.Consider. In December, the last U.S. troops left Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta now says…
from: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/03/ron_paul_reactionary_or_visionary_113008.html
WASHINGTON — I wish Mitt Romney's cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it's much worse than that. The Republican front-runner seems dangerously clueless about the nation he seeks to lead.When I first heard the now-famous quote — "I'm not concerned about the very poor" — I thought it might be fodder for a snarky column about the wee little Mr. Monopoly who lives inside Romney's head and blurts out things like "Corporations are people, my friend," or "I like being able to fire people." But I…
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"I don't smoke, and I don't chew, and I don't go out with girls who do." My, how times have changed since kids amused each other with schoolyard doggerel like that one. Tobacco's out, but now nearly everything else is "in." Modern voters no longer pursue clean-living good boys, but good ol' boys with a little sin on their rap sheets.If he is the Republican nominee — and he took a big step toward a coronation convention in Tampa, Fla., with that solid win in Florida — Mitt Romney's goody-goody-two-shoes reputation could hurt him worse than…
from: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/03/romneys_risks_in_clean_living_–_voters_expect_a_little_sin_on_a_rap_sheet_113010.html
