Quote from CaptainObvious:
When asked how much revenue would be lost by abolishing the IRS his answer was...A lot. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, obviously. When asked how many troops we have deployed overseas he had no idea. Anyone showing such ignorance cannot be taken seriously. Obviously, he has put zero thought into the consequences of his "ideas".
Lets take just one example. He advocates pulling all troops out of Korea. Can any intellectually honest person suggest that North Korea will not take military action against the South? Can any person with even the slightest gray matter think that nukes won't be used in such an event? Millions will die as a result of just this one idiotic idea of his.
Beyond his pointing out the obvious....government sucks, government lies...blah, blah, blah. We all know that! The man has no substance.
thanks for elaborating. ironically, fwiw and i'm not sure how much that is, he's the most highly educated candidate in the field as far as i know.
i recognize your views. right after the russert interview at christmas dinner i got into a friendly debate with a family friend over the exact same point you raise. was that a talking point somewhere else? paul didn't have the precise number of troops at hand. personally i doubt most of congress or the field would have been able to answer that either at the time. the number is constantly changing, is it not? i forget his answer, but in the same breath he did eventually put out an estimate that sounded reasonable.
to me, concluding that he has put 'zero thought' into his long standing policy stance for that particular reason is like saying 1 + 2 = 99....
a lot of people feel the world depends on our projection of full force, and would stand for that even in the face of overextension. talking to people locally, i hear this one all the time. again, you're making a broad conclusion here... that north korea would nuke the south if we pulled troops out and that no honest intellectual can see it otherwise.
if you and i were north koreans or iranians, and a superpower was starting preemptive wars and accumulating major forces on our border, how would our conversation differ? what would your view be towards self defense? can you honestly, intellectually tell me that you would relinquish your right to a deterrent force, self defense and lay down in response?
if you can say that, that you would lay down and take it... that would be consistent with your standard for intellectual honesty in the context of your views
