Comments on: ABR? http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2011/11/19/abr/ A First Things Blog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Stephen P http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2011/11/19/abr/comment-page-1/#comment-15472 Stephen P Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:19:29 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/?p=4608#comment-15472 It’s not really accurate to call Ron Paul an isolationist, which requires both non-interventionism and economic protectionism. On military matters, he’s a non-interventionist: he doesn’t think the U.S. should use military force in countries unless we’ve been directly attacked. However, he’s not protectionist, as he is about as pro-free trade as any politician out there.

I agree that the non-interventionism will bar him from winning the full support of the Anyone-But-Romney crowd—as long as a substantial portion of the Republican Party clings to the belief that our national security is served well by nation-building, they’ll refuse to support him.

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