Dear Mr. Neocon:
Very interesting to see you call quoting Jesus of Nazareth 'dishonorable'. One expects warmongers to consider the words of the Prince of Peace irrelevant. This is no surprise. But not even a Muslim would ever consider His words dishonorable.
No, Mr. Neocon, Dr. Paul does not hate the United States. He loves it enough to want to save it. He loves it enough to want the military here protecting it, instead of abroad protecting the interests of certain multinational corporations. And he loves his fellow veterans enough to wish them to be performing honorable duty. Defending the United States is honorable. Searching the world for mythical yellowcake uranium is not.
Conservative Republicans know what we want. We want to conserve what is great about this nation, and to revive what used to be great about this nation before it was carelessly thrown away. This is why we conservative Republicans of all ages refused to vote for Romney. We could not tell him from Obama. It isn't possible to be flexible and open-minded enough to pervert his socialism into conservatism.
Liberty does involve license. It even involves enough license to leave you free to call Glen Beck a libertarian. Unfortunately, some through history have used this license to call liberalism conservative and to call reckless, unaffordable police actions responsible. And they, to this day, refuse to take responsibility for it. This has resulted in two generations of Republicans who call defecit spending conservatism, and as a result the irresponsible Democrats have had no check and our great nation is now hocked to the Chinese. This has resulted in playing fast and loose with the Constitution conservatism, and as a result our birthright, and our protector of basic human liberties and rights which date back to the Magna Carta have been thrown to the winds. My grandfather did not fight in the Great War, and my father did not fight in the Big One, so that I could do without habeus corpus.
We are sick of criticism from people so determined not to listen to Ron Paul that they think he advocates a return to the Gold Standard--as sick of it as we are of our wealth and our wages being inflated away before our very eyes. We are sick of the bipartisan tax and spend policy being described as the sole province of 'The Left' as though it weren't a Republican that got us into two simultaneous wars (under false pretenses--no bin Laden in Afghanistan, no yellowcake uranium in Iraq) and a Republican who raided the Social Security Trust Fund. We are sick of giving Israel money, and hearing that we hate all Jews if we don't. And we are more sick of giving more money than we give to Israel to Israel's enemies. Yes, the world has changed. But one thing hasn't--despite assurances that American voters have conservative choices, spending the nation into looming bankruptcy remains a bipartisan activity.
In light of this, one does indeed wonder what part of liberty comes with responsibility is not understood.
In the end, it's deliberately disingenuous to accuse Ron Paul of dividing the Republican Party. Neoconnery which says it's all right to spend the nation into the poorhouse, abandon all principles, and follow The Left's lead in considering the Constitution a 'living document' subject to misinterpretation is truly responsible for dividing the Republican Party. If it were not, the Libertarian Party would never have been created. Ron Paul did not divide this party. Dr. Paul merely attracted the true conservatives because he had integrity--more integrity than McCain, Romney, Boehner, Graham and McConnell combined. If he had not been the rallying point for these principled, neglected, disenfranchised genuine conservatives, someone else would have been.
Enough is indeed enough. Now that the Democrats are no longer able to feign interest in peace, however, I am happy to report that neocons can have a happy home in the Democratic Party. And this is good, because you have irreparably damaged the G.O.P. We will pick up the pieces, and make that institution relevant again. We will carry on the traditions of Calvin Coolidge, who created the economic boom called the Roaring Twenties. The world may have changed in ninety years, but principles remain the same. And our principles can and will repair the damage. With you closet liberals out of the way, we can and will prove it.
Insanity is temporary. If you won't get over it and bring the Republican Party past it, then with God and Barry Goldwater as our witnesses, we will.