I imagine several candidates were looking pretty steely-eyed at Paul's comment, but they chose to show Rudy. And his response wasn't that great -- "issue a retraction"?
Like Rudy thought Paul just made his comments up as he went, and could have been "mistaken" about what he was saying. Maybe Rudy makes things up as he goes, but Paul, bless his troubled soul, is deadly serious and should be treated that way.
It illustrated another of the problems many of us have with Rudy, the inability to work on the plane of ideas and sound reason. Rudy's response was visceral, emotional, and personal. It HAPPENED that in this instance, he was attacking something we all disagreed with so it sounded good, but Rudy could have done EXACTLY the same steely-eyed answer if one of the candidates had insisted that a 17-year-old daughter who was pregnant should be required to carry her baby to term.
That's the tactics the liberals employ and embrace. And let's not kid ourselves we're not succeptible to them. Why else is Rudy even up there?
Wish they would’ve let Hunter take on Ron Paul.
He’d be a bit steely eyed meatier than just demanding a retraction.