Way to go Ron Paul!
Even though just hearing Brit Hume curl his sneering lips around "enhanced interrogation techniques" was enough to make me hurl, I forced myself to watch some of the Republican debate .. just because I admire Ron Paul.
My, my .. the Republicans do, indeed, need a SINGLE defining issue for themselves each election, don't they? This year it seems to be supporting indefinite military presence in Iraq .. if you don't, you're a Democrat and don't want us to win victory.
Remember all the people they had stirred up on that gay marriage obsession of '04? It put them over the top at the polls.
This year their other obsessions -- abortion and illegal immigrants -- are chugging right along. Those issues will get waaay more airtime than Iraq.
I liked McCain's response to torture -- as a former victim he knows that torture "doesn't often work and discredits and diminishes those who use it."
I was thinking of the 3 missing soldiers.
When Ron Paul speaks about the war he is more articulate than what you hear from many Democrats.
Rudy got huge applause for taking Ron Paul to task about why the Middle East hate us. Paul said what all the experts say -- because of our foreign policy and occupation.
REP. PAUL: "Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we've been over there; we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East -- I think Reagan was right.
We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. So right now we're building an embassy in Iraq that's bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases."
Did you see Rudy's face right after twisting what Paul said into 'it being our fault we were attacked' and he asked him to take it back? Rudy's eyes got very wide and big. He sure knows how to monger fear.
I knew Fox would spin Ron's 9/11 answer and give Rudy an At-a-Boy .. and they did! Following the debate, Ron Paul went head-to-head with Sean Hannity and didn’t back down:
Whatever are the Republicans going to do about Ron Paul? But I guess we shouldn't even ponder it -- Paul will never be elected Prez. If only we lived in a one person one vote democracy.
Ron Paul has done the unspeakable in the Republican party. He made sense. He's a real conservative and the only real anti-war candidate .. I wanted him to rant about how the American people are getting screwed over by Defense Contractors like Halliburton, KBR, etc etc. It's one of his best rants .. he backs it up will all sorts of facts.
This debate had viewers vote on the winner by sending a text message to Fox News. Romney, who has a lot of tech-savvy and youth-oriented campaigners, came in first, with 29 percent. And while Ron Paul is not too popular with the debate audience, many viewers at home appeared to appreciate his libertarian, anti-war message—he came in second with 25 percent.
Of course all the Righties are blogging that Paul lost the debate. Not so. Paul's website is getting more traffic than Rudy McRomney gets.
In fact .. true conservative Barry Goldwater is somewhere smiling.
So are Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.
If I were a Republican I might be frowning a little ...
