Sarah Palin Praises Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said the following on Sean Hannity’s FOX News program yesterday:
“You’ve got to give it to Ron Paul. Whether you agree with everything he says or not, at least he is one there in Congress trying to make our President stick to the law and understand that Congress does have a role to play in these foreign policy decisions that are made and Ron Paul, I think hit the nail on the head, when he came out and said Obama had better be careful when he interjects himself and our country in other nations’ business.”
Of course, Sarah Palin is right.
Mrs. Palin was seconding Paul’s criticism of President Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya, but I would add that unless the rest of the Republican presidential field also begins to become more selective about U.S. interventions, it will remain politically and mathematically impossible to actually reduce our debt in any serious manner. Our annual deficit is $1.5 trillion. Our total so-called national security spending is $1.2 trillion.
Again, do the math. Ron Paul has. This is why he—alone among presidential candidates—was able to put together a budget featuring $1 trillion in real cuts.
Ron Paul does not cut one penny from our actual defense. He cuts our irrational offense in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and gets rid of foreign aid. Paul agrees with Gov. Palin, that President Obama should be more “careful where he interjects himself and our country in other nations’ business.”
Perhaps most importantly, it should be pointed out that although every conservative Republican claims to be for limited government, those who still think it should be virtually unlimited in the area of foreign policy will never be able tackle government spending in any substantive way.
