Oh he most assuredly is rectally pained, he goes to absurd lengths to try and pin a Youtube video by some random Paul supporter, which just HAPPENS to be hurtful towards said authors colon, as though it were the campaign plans of Paul himself. It's not, no more than your love of Trump, Perry, Cain, Bush, or whatever flavor of the month not-Obama Republican is actually indicative of their platform. At no point does it discuss in any sort of detail what Pauls actual stance on economics is, nor his plans for the economy or record on voting. It waxes for what seems to be near hours about how 'evil' the damned commies were, yet ignores any reason as to why that is relevant to the discussion of Paul in the presidential race. Other than he's different from Reagen of course, because if you don't pray nighty to both Jesus Christ AND Ronald W. Reagen, you're just a liberal commie, or some other such non-sense.
As the article aptly points out, it has ALWAYS been a conservative position to oppose Communism, and always a Liberal initiative to appease them. That hasn't changed a bit, as we can tell by your smart-assed condescending remarks. The author does go into great detail on the people who Paul claims are his mentors, people he admires and looks up to. And it points out their wrongheaded views of old, going back to before Reagan was even in public office. Hardly some blowhard harping on a youtube from some irrelevant Paul supporter, a concise dossier on the Libertarian movement, and how they came to hold so much influence in the Republican party. Turns out, it's mostly a ruse.
Clearly you've never struck a glance in a mirror then. We were in no way isolationist during the course of WWI. We continually supplied the allied powers and accepted the biggest bullshit propaganda cause to go trouncing off to fight across the Atlantic. Nor was isolationism in any way prevalent during WWII. FDR tried desperately to intervene at the earliest moment, selling off war materials to the Allied powers from the start. It is the rarest moment indeed when America has actually practiced isolationism, because for nearly 200 years we as a nation have meddled in the affairs of other foreign powers.
Again, your post confirms precisely what I said earlier about your ignorance of history. Look, you can slice and dice things any way you please, you can construe and misconstrue facts and skew them to whatever means you wish... that's all clever and cute, and I am sure you are proud of yourself for being able to manipulate historical facts in such a way, but you are just flat out lying through your shit-stained teeth. Prior to WWI, the political sentiment of MOST of America, was isolationist. The VAST majority of Americans did NOT want to get involved overseas, with whatever was going on... same with the period just prior to WWII. It took an attack on Pearl Harbor for Americans to justify intervention in WWII. Prior to that, it was overwhelming consensus that we should stay the hell out of it. I don't give a damn if you want to not believe that, or if you want to try and rewrite history about it, that's the facts of the matter, and most intelligent thinking people know this. Unfortunately, you rely on finding really stupid people to believe you, people who listen to you yammer and think you sound like you know what you're talking about. You are totally full of shit.
And just how, pray tell, did we try to appease Communism? By intervening in civil wars? By supplying insurgents to fight communist governments, or prevent communist governments from rising? By planting dictatorial leaders as heads of state? By pointing and threatening them with nuclear weapons? I'm really curious to know just where we attempted to appease communism or communist nations.
I never said we appeased Communism. I said there was a political contingent who WANTED to appease Communists, just like there is a political contingent NOW who WANT to appease radical Islamists. You're simply and quite frankly, on the wrong side of history. Are you trying to claim there weren't any political figures, during the Reagan years, who didn't want Reagan talking tough to Gorbachev? Who freaked out when Reagan walked out of the talks at Reykjavik? Who were more than willing to give up our nukes in Europe in the hopes the 'appeasement' would please the Soviets and they would play nice? Were you living under a rock at the time, or in a drug-induced coma? Or maybe you weren't even born yet, and have no fucking clue what the hell you're even talking about here? Which is it, skippy?
