is ron paul anti american??

Question

A lot of stuff ron paul says sounds very anti-american, i think he needs to reword a lot of the things he says, and he needs to make his debates more american "user friendly" he speaks like we all understand him. many people do not he needs to realize that

Answer 1

Nothing I've ever heard him say sounds anti-American. Unless you find our founding fathers to be anti-American, you wouldn't find him to be so either.
Ronald Reagan repeadedly said how much he LOVED him (as do many true republicans, NOT neoconservatives).
Many democrats and moderate Americans seems to like him too.

Answer 2

This "anti American" stuff is really very tiresome. He is an American. He wants to change certain things about his country to make it better (in his mind at least).
So cut this anti - American BS. Change is not anti-American. Without change we would not have formed the USA. We would not have abolished slavery. We would not have abolished segregation. I am sure people who wanted these changes were labelled as well.
I am no fan of Ron Paul - I strongly believe he is wrong on most of his more controversial agenda items.
But he is not anti-American. No candidate is. This is just a cheap and tacky put down used by those who seem to think they and they alone should be allowed to define what is American.

Answer 3

He is the most American man I have heard in many years. He is anti-corruption.

When the country was first started there was always alot of debate of State or Federal size... that is should State government be bigger or Federal government be bigger.... Now the Federal government is so huge it cannot bend over and do much at all except rage war. It could not respond to Katrina, it runs the education system like the army, it is now giving bouncing checks to many established services.... it got too big. so it is time to cut it down to a size where it works and also cuts out the "pimps" the corruption.

Answer 4

I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for. I asked a question earlier about the National ID cards and which presidential candidate has come out to oppose them. The only one was Ron Paul. That man is definitely not anti American. I'm going to have to do some more research on him but I like what I'm seeing so far.

Answer 5

Quite the opposite, he's Pro-American. People who don't like spin what he says in an Anti-American perspective to discredit him. He says that a lot of the things this and former administrations have done in regards to taxation, domestic policy, and foreign policy are Un-American in that go against the Constitution, which they do. The IRS was created by the 16th Amendment, which was created because the Supreme Court shot down Congress' first attempt at taxing income as being unconstitutional. The Patriot Act requires us as citizens to trade in our civil liberties in the name of security. The Department of Homeland Security was developed after 9/11 because the FBI and CIA failed to communicate with each other. For decades the federal government has lived by the idea of when in doubt, create another federal entity; which has increased spending and the national debt. Ron Paul doesn't want to disband our military, he simply wants to use it as the founding father intended - for defense rather than imperialism. I agree that our federal government needs to be streamlined and limited in its authority, with those powers returning to the states as they rightfully belong.

Answer 6

That Democrat is an Australian. He doesn't support him; he doesn't even know him. He just says Assange is media, and arresting him for publishing something he was given and didn't steal would be like arresting the NY Times. He also points out that an Australian can't be arrested for treason, which is what some were calling for. And the bit about 'in a society where truth is treason, we are in big trouble'. Kind of liked that line, myself.

Answer 7

Its anti american to go to war withour a decleration, which 95% of the canidates last night support.

Ron paul in 2008

Answer 8

Ron Paul is pro-American. He is anti-establishment.

Answer 9

He wants to uphold the Constitution. It's not anti American, it just sounds strange to people because we haven't had a President willing to do that lately.

Answer 10

Are you suggesting that he thinks the American people are smarter than they actually are? If that's the case, yes I think he needs to adjust what he's saying to keep certain people from distorting what he says.

I think that the Republican base wouldn't find much to disagree with in his views on foreign policy if they would understand what he plans to do as president. Whereas other candidates support going attacking countries which never attacked us and which actually pose no threat to us while doing nothing to catch Osama bin Laden, Ron Paul wants to focus on catching Osama (he is the only candidate with a plan to catch Osama, which is to follow the Constitution and issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal, in specific, he would pay a defense contractor $1 billion to catch Osama in 6 months) and to stop trying to police the world and interfering in places where we have no business being (for example, we still have military bases in Germany and Japan, neither of which are threatened or are even potential enemies of ours) so that other people won't have as much reason to hate us. Ron Paul's plan for foreign policy is to ensure that we can protect our country, but not to interfere in other countries without a good reason for doing so.

It would be nice if more people would recognize that the people who are actually "anti-American" are those who support intervening in countries when we have no national security interest in that country (for example, the Democrats and their "Save Darfur" coalition). We actually prolonged the Cold War by subsidizing Communism (the 2 parties repeatedly sent foreign aid to the Soviet Union, which prevented the laws of economics from dismantling it sooner, a practice which Ron Paul attempted to end back in the 70s during his first stint in Congress) and by intervening in countries such as Vietnam to try to prop up dictatorships (which only made the people to associate us with the Imperialism of the pre-Capitalist European monarchies and the Communists with liberators and bringers of progress). The Cold War was a disastrous policy that prolonged Communism and this War on Terrorism, likewise, is a disastrous policy that will only lead to more terrorist attacks (other than 9/11, we haven't been attacked in America, but we now have far more terrorism over there).

Ron Paul's point about 9/11 is that it happened because we were over there, which is a concept called blowback. Basically, as a result of our actions in the Middle East for 50 years (propping up dictators such as Saddam Hussein, the King of Kuwait, and the Saudis, and our policy of aiding Osama bin Laden, not to mention numerous other foreign policy mistakes), many people in the Middle East came to hate our country, which allowed an Osama bin Laden to get enough influence to find 19 people who would hijack airplanes and crash them into buildings.