Ron Paul came out swinging Wednesday against Newt Gingrich for calling him a dangerous candidate, dubbing Gingrich a chickenhawk who avoided the Vietnam War.
“I don’t want to fight a war that’s unconstitutional, and I’m the dangerous person? You know, when Newt Gingrich was called to service in the 1960s during the Vietnam era, guess what he thought about danger? He chickened out on that, he got deferments and didn’t even go,” Paul said on CNN later in the morning.
“So right now, he sends these young kids over there to endure the danger, and the kids coming back, the young people coming back and the ones in the military right now, they overwhelmingly support my campaign. We get twice as much support from active military personnel than all the other candidates put together. So, Newt Gingrich has no business talking about danger because he is putting other people in danger. Some people call that kind of a program a chickenhawk and I think he falls into that category,” Paul said.
Paul also said his third place showing in Iowa came from voting blocs — particularly young people where the “excitement is” — that will be essential to defeating President Barack Obama in 2012.
“If you’re looking to bringing new people in, the frustrated young people Obama had, you have to look at my campaign. That’s where the enthusiasm is,” Paul said on the “Today” show. “So I would say the Republicans would be very neglectful if they say you don’t need the independents, you don’t need the young people. That’s where the excitement is, and that’s where the changes are coming about, and that’s how you would have to beat Obama.So I think there were some very encouraging statistics.”
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Ron is the only honest, ethical, unwavering, and constitutional Paulitician in the lot.
Ron Paul is right on this. The U.S. hasn’t formally declared war since WWII. At least Ron Paul served in the military. And he is right about the military donating the most to his campaign. The dirty little secret is that certain businesses make millions of dollars in wars. These businesses lobby congress for influence. Dr. Paul sees this and wonders, “Are we going to war because it is in America’s best interest, or is it because certain companies want to feather their nest?” There’s trouble enough in the world without going to war for no reason or on a mistaken assumption. Everyone wants a strong military, but no one wants an unjust war.
Ron Paul is the only one running who gives more than lip service to the Constitution.