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Im in a holiday mood. let me just say, this i usually dont comment on dicks analysis, but i will here briefly. first of all, you have to understand the historical context of libertarians. it goes back a long, long way. theyve held the same positions for a long, longtime. hes been on both the republican ballots and presidential ballots as a libertarian. libertarians who follow this guy agree you that ought to legalize drugs. they agree we should not have been in iraq. hes got a fervent group of f...

Ken? >> ron paul certainly has more of an isolationist foreign policy and economic policy. so to the extent that thats what were talking about, were talking about free trade and, you know, sort of isolationism, more generally. youll hear a little bit of an economic populist message from ron paul. thats not really very consistent with the gop orthodox. in fact, thats one of the many ways in which he is outside of the gop mainstream, and probably one of the things that will hurt him, if not in iow...

Im in a holiday mood. let me just say, this i usually dont comment on dicks analysis, but i will here briefly. first of all, you have to understand the historical context of libertarians. it goes back a long, long way. theyve held the same positions for a long, longtime. hes been on both the republican ballots and presidential ballots as a libertarian. libertarians who follow this guy agree you that ought to legalize drugs. they agree we should not have been in iraq. hes got a fervent group of f...

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Response when they heard that gadhafi, whos a bad guy, was heading to benghazi to wipe out an entire province, practically, because they were rebelling. he was going to wipe them out. he said, im going to kill everybody there. people had -- hillary clinton, to her credit, and samantha pour and susan rice at the u.n., the three people in foreign policy community said, no, we are not going to stand by for another rwanda. were not going to let another african government just come in and kill everyb...

Problem. >> chris: we will get to that in a minute and i should point out of course, it was the illinois straw poll. the iowa straw poll was back in august. >> i will take both of them. >> chris: there you go. you almost won the iowa straw poll. many conservatives say they like your views on less spending, smaller government, adhering to the constitution. but the problem they have, the bridge too far is foreign policy. they are upset with what they view as isolationist views especially when it c...

Gadhafi, whos a bad guy, was heading to benghazi to wipe out an entire province, practically, because they were rebelling. he was going to wipe them out. he said, im going to kill everybody there. hillary clinton, to her credit, and samantha power, the three people in foreign policy said, no, we are not going to stand by for another rwanda. were not going to let another african government just come in and kill everybody because they feel like it. that was a gut reaction. it seemed to me that mr....

Involvement in libya. the house appears to be close to a vote aimed at limiting financing for the u.s. role in the air war being waged against moammar gadhafi, and the key word in that sentence very well might be war. the white house is arguing that air operations over tripoli do not constitute a war and an argument that at least one democratic senator flatly rejects. >> it is true that the war powers act is an infringement on the presidents power as commander in chief and so does the constituti...

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Articulate outspoken, someone i agree were on issues but i disagree with more on national defense issues. you dont identify yourself a libertarian. >> i call myself a constitutional conservative when i talk about what government should be the primary numb rated power is national defense bar none. its what the federal government should do and what no one else can do. >> you find yourself disagreeing with your dad? >> i say that but we dont always disagree. for example i think this foreign policy ...