Ron Paul’s 2008 Ideas Being Understood by the President in 2025 IS WILD

It's worth taking a moment to think about how much things have changed and the man who had a significant hand in his own party's evolution on foreign policy. #17

Gage Skidmore

When Ron Paul ran for president in 2008 and 2012, he boldly campaigned on antiwar themes in a Republican Party that was still very much George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s GOP.

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The 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had said that the United States could stay in Iraq for a hundred years if that’s what it took, and campaigned to continue to the neoconservative foreign policy of Bush-Cheney.

The 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, found himself in a Republican Party that was demanding fiscal responsibility in new ways through the Tea Party movement, but on foreign policy the GOP was still fairly firmly in the neocon camp.

Ron Paul told them they were wrong. He told his party it was wrong. Repeatedly. Loudly. Firmly.

That we should take care o…