RE: RE: A landslide for the Lizard Queen

Personally, I believe the GOP losing control of Congress last year had more to do with out-of-control spending and the president's stance on immigration than it had to do with the Iraq war.

I tend to agree. I think what Vox is missing is that while two-thirds of the country is opposed to the war in Iraq, better than 80% do not want funding cut off and do not want a timetable for withdrawal set by Congress. In other words, had Iraq been the major issue for people, they wouldn't have given the Democrats control of Congress because they knew what the Democrats would do.

Ron Paul's appeal to me has to do with his beliefs on domestic policy more so than his beliefs on foreign policy.

That is definitely his strong suit with most Republicans.

I happen to agree completely with his ideas on foreign policy, which are not, as the press and mainstream Republicans would have you believe, isolationist. Paul believes in actual free international trade, not the statist fairy tales of NAFTA and its clones. He also believes in non-intervention and is opposed to adventurism. In other words, no nation-building and we have no business being the world's cops. We will defend our allies and ourselves, but "exporting democracy" is tyranny in disguise.