And so we now have another pro-torture Attorney General...

[A Black Falcon]

Ron Paul is not a Isolationist ; His view has to do with the blow back idea that when you do mischief abroad there is consequences down the road. Non intervention means you don't get in entangled in alliances that serve no benefit and put the country at risk just the like founding fathers said to do.

"If we do anything it'll end up bad, so we'll do nothing" ends up in isolation. I don't see any other possible outcome. And yes, there is often blowback from our actions, because as I said we've made a lot of bad ones... I just don't think that that fact means that we should stop trying and abandon involvement with the rest of the world; if anything I think we should be doing more...

He may oppose abortion and gay marriage ; But he is against forcing the issue nation wide and will let the individual states decide for themselves what to do, He promises to keep the issue out of the federal level; His stance is actually favorable to both sides.

That's exactly what a lot of Republicans want, ASM. In fact, reversing Roe vs. Wade wouldn't ban abortion, it would revert things back to the way they were before that -- when it was up to the states. The more conservative states would then ban it, and huge swaths of the country would have no legal abortions. Women who couldn't afford to go the distance to a state with legal abortion (and in the deep south, that'd probably be quite a ways) would start dying of illegal back-street abortions again like they do in countries where abortion isn't legal.

Sure, some religious right types want a constitutional amendment banning abortion, but I don't think that that would pass... the above case is much plausible than that one.

As for gay marriage, "it's up to the states" IS the current policy. What most Republicans want is to ban it nationally, if they can.