Posted on 09/10/2007 6:10:07 AM PDT by oblomov
In an effort to boost his media exposure, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has tried to discredit Rep. Ron Paul's responses in the GOP debate Wednesday in New Hampshire.
Thursday, Huckabee called Texas Rep. Paul's comments during the debate "ludicrous" and "unacceptable." The former Arkansas governor conflated a previous debate comment with Wednesday's debate to suggest that Paul blamed America for 9/11.
Has Paul made "ludicrous" statements? I decided to look at what he's said in the debates and do some fact-checking.
It turns out Ron Paul had to set the record straight early in the debate after Fox News' moderators misquoted him, suggesting that he wanted citizens to be able to carry guns on airplanes to thwart attacks. Not true, said Paul. His actual words were: "Responsibility for protecting passengers falls with the airline, not the government, not the passengers." Paul favors small government and private responsibility.
Next came the question that prompted the comments Huckabee objects to so much. Chris Wallace asked Paul if he would pull troops from Iraq in spite of predictions of a bloodbath, al Qaeda camps and death for U.S. supporters in Iraq.
Paul's spirited answer: "The people who say there will be a bloodbath are the ones who said it would be a cakewalk, it would be slam dunk, and that it would be paid for by oil. Why believe them?"
(Excerpt) Read more at thestreet.com ...
BTTT.
Boo freaking hoo. Is only Paul allowed to lob hand grenades?
Aw, Freepers pick on Ron Paul all the time.
He is the only one with Constitutional authority...
Sent to the author:
A wide variety of illegal chemical weaponry was found in Iraq, including in-flight-mixing sarin artillery shells which had been used as IEDs and injured American servicemen through partial mixing of the sarin components when the shell exploded.
What was not found were “stockpiles” of WMD. Evidence that such weaponry was smuggled out of Iraq aside, saying “no WMD” is not the same as “no WMD stockpiles.”
I would ask that you post a correction of your misstatement out of respect for the American troops that have actually handled and been injured by WMD in Iraq.
Sincerely,
Michael Pelletier.
Blaming the USA for a War that the Islams have been openly waging against us since 1979 when Jimmy Carter eliminated the Shah of Iran is ridiculous.
Ron Paul is a waste of Oxygen and certainly a waste of time in any GOP debates. Perhaps he can debate Dennis Kucinich in a Battle to land the Idiot Party Nomination.
RamS
Would you rather have a congressman that earmarks nothing and then votes for the bill...or a congressman who puts earmarks in and then votes against the spending? I would assume anyone who wants to see a reduction in government would want the latter, no?
If you're voting against the spending...that's all I care about...if all congressmen did that, we'd be in good shape. Once the money is spent, who cares about the earmarks?
Huckabee may be a nanny-statist, but he’s right about Paul.
I’m not a Huckabee supporter, but I was cheering him on as he was B&%#-slapping Paul around. He did us all a favor.
This anti-war “pull our troops out now” cult like following Paul has smells allot like a Lyndon LaRouche campaign.
It reeks of dishonesty. If he really, truly is against the spending, he wouldn’t take a dime of it even if it was spent. Ron Paul is a fraud.
Fixed it for you.
I completely agree with all of your points. And the fact that Bush never once advertised these facts, and instead chose to go with the anti-USA crowd in saying there were no WMDs when in fact there were was a tactical blunder so great that it might cost us victory in this war.
Who cares Ron Paul is an idiot.
I would ask again...would you then rather have a congressman who votes for the spending?
If a congressman is voting against the spending...that's all he can be asked to do.
Which districts should get the benefit of the money spent? Just those who's congressmen voted for spending?
Ideally...yes...I would support a guy who both votes against the spending and does not request any earmarks for his district...although, again, other than the fact that my district gets less money (hardly a principled reason to object to earmarks), why do I care where the money goes once its been spent?
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actually it may be true that by the time we got there the wmd had been moved. what we found is just crap he forgot about. Most of the wmd was moved to syria a few months b4 invasion. I had read one report , and it could be some debka crap, that sadam had his nuclear weapons program in chad.
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