With as little offense as possible to my South Carolinian brethren, a pack of emotionally fired up partisans that had listened to six years of how 'they' were 'coming to get us' is not a group to which I'm going to listen. Especially when the answer was twisted not only by the responding candidate (Giuliani) but by the network who spends 23 hours a day hawking for how absolutely grand Rudy is. Hannity may as well start wearing a bib to catch the slobber every time he mentions St. Rudy.
Interpret it anyway you like, that’s the facts of it.
No the facts are that Rudy was disingenuous and apparently hadn't picked up anything to read in the past 5 years. Else he would have known Rep. Paul was not making an 'absurd' statement but one that was given as a reason by a committee commissioned by the government Rudy wants to run
I have seen some stories circulating that Rudy had known about the blowback concerns. Had he remembered during the debate he might have conducted himself in a more reasonable manner.