I don't stump for politicians. There are no McCain-Palin or Obama '08 stickers on my car. I'm not even registered with a party. But I like Ron Paul enough (and like our Constitution enough, even think we should keep it around) to devote a blog post to him.
A few things about this video:
1. It's dated, produced for his run in 2008, but that says a lot about Ron Paul: His message is exactly the same for 2012. Which is exactly the same message he's had since he got into politics in 1976.
2. He briefly defends the charge that he is an isolationist. Below the video is a more filled out response by Paul. It's great. Read it. You can read up on all of his positions at ronpaul.com.
3. It's corny at times - sorry - but very informative if you don't know much about the guy.
From "Free Trade with All, Entangling Alliances with None" by Ron Paul (Sept. 22, 2009)
Free trade with all and entangling alliances with none has always been the best policy in dealing with other countries on the world stage. This is the policy of friendship, freedom and non-interventionism and yet people wrongly attack this philosophy as isolationist. Nothing could be further from the truth. Isolationism is putting up protectionist trade barriers, starting trade wars imposing provocative sanctions and one day finding out we have no one left to buy our products. Isolationism is arming both sides of a conflict, only to discover that you’ve made two enemies instead of keeping two friends. Isolationism is trying to police the world but creating more resentment than gratitude. Isolationism is not understanding economics, or other cultures, but clumsily intervening anyway and creating major disasters out of minor problems. [emphasis mine]
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