[alexamenos]

Yeah, Ron Paul is wacky....no, wait, Ron Paul is principled and sensible, the rest of the Republican Party is wacky and corrupt.

(ps...the idea that the US was "isolationist" prior to WWI is the same sort of gizz-dribble as the idea that Hoover's was some sort of minimalist government, laissez faire type.)

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incidentally....this has been the state of so-called "conservativism" in the US for many years now...a "conservative" can be pro-choice, favor amnesty for illegal aliens, advocate massive deficit spending, embrace mammoth government boondoggles and welfare, etc., etc....but a "conservative" can't question the empire. The true test of "conservatism" in this day and age is the Iraqi question -- if you favor nation building expidition to spread democracy to parts here and yon and you thought Al-Qaeda and Saddam were in cahoots and if you thought Saddam had Drones of Mass Destruction getting ready to bomb Denton Texas then you might be a conservative, but if you questioned any of these propositions then you're not only not conservative, you're "wacky".