Would Ron Paul appeal to more conservatives if he had a different opinion on the Iraq war?

Question

What do conservatives think of the rest of his ideas?

Answer 1

at first I would have agreed with you but listening to him more and more I have come to the conclusion he is truely delusional and incompetant.

Ron Paul, quite incredibly, thinks Iran has no army, no navy and no air force at all and therefore would never attack Israel. Evidently Paul doesn’t realize the utility that ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons would offer an Iran whose president has repeatedly declared his personal desire to wipe Israel off the map. A couple of well-placed nukes could in fact do that, whether Iran has an army or not. Which, by the way, it does. Really. Iran does have an army. A navy and an air force, too, with an indigenously constructed fighter airplane leading the latter into the skies. Paul might want to bone up on that a bit. He’d do well to Google the Shahab series of missiles while he’s at it. Paul also might want to bone up on the US military’s presence overseas and who actually pays for it. He’s against it, though he doesn’t even know how many troops we have overseas or what they’re doing or why they’re there. That also came out in the interview. And he thinks the US taxpayer pays the entire bill, which isn’t true. We pay the bulk of it, but we don’t pay all of it. Host countries pick up a sizable portion of the tab, funding everything from the cost of living allowances to the housing that our overseas troops need. All of that and more was packed into an interview that demonstrated once and for all that however well-meaning Paul is on the small government front (an area where he could and does make some sense), he’s simply too ignorant on foreign policy and too quick to blame America for just about every bad thing in the world to be trusted with the power of the presidency. No good can come of it.

Answer 2

Paul does not appeal to very many social conservatives. If there is anything about his stances that would indicate an appeal to social conservatives, it's that he opposes abortion, and that he wants issues like sodomy laws and gay marriage to be resolved at the state level instead of at the federal level, and that hopefully includes that Paul does not want the federal *courts* to usurp power from the states. That stance *could* be appealling to social conservatives, but most of the conservatives are still going with Santorum, Gingrich, and Perry.

Answer 3

Yes. Conservatives do not want to hear what he has to say about Iraq. They are determined to fight this war with everything we have, no plan B. Otherwise, conservatives agree that government has no business, and doesn't need to be so involved with people's personal lives. Our founding fathers didn't mean for it to be that way. His views on what we need to do to change this country are more ambitious than other candidates'. That will appeal to some voters, and to others it will not. I honestly don't know what the future holds for him.

Answer 4

He would appeal to far fewer.

He wouldn't be a candidate if it wasn't for his Iraq war opinions.

Answer 5

no Ron Paul is appealing to people like those in Yahoo Answers that consistently demonstrate a lack of balance or position politically..

that just want to attack the status quo..out of disassociation or plain old contrarian expedience

because it is easier than having a base formed by a set of values or education discipline

Answer 6

Ron Paul is appealing to conservatives. He doesn't appeal to neocons.

Answer 7

you got it buddy. He basically has broad appeal. Conservatives, Hookers , pimps, Drug Dealers, pure capitalists, tin haters all like his ideas, but he is a cranky old crumudgeon who blames us for the 9/11 attacks.

Answer 8

if by different opinion on Iraq you mean on foreign policy then yes
in a global economy with global communications today we cannot simply just break off with every international organization

the writers of the constitution cannot just be expected to envision the global society as it is today

Answer 9

He would appeal more to conservatives if he talked more about religion. However he understands the constitution!

Answer 10

He would appeal to more Republicans and neocons who love wars and think the US should have a world empire.