Huckabee Takes Unfair Shots at Ron Paul

TheStreet.com ^ | 9/7/2007 | John Fout

[oblomov]

Huckabee... he's that pro-amnesty governor that lost a lot of weight, right?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Paulbarers are good at spamming polls to inflate these nuts agenda.

[StarCMC]

BTTT.

[MNJohnnie]

You right. He should of asked the demagogic fraud Paul, to explain why any limited Govt Conservative should support a candidate, like Ron Paul, that has over $400 million in earmarks to his name. Why we should support a candidate such a complete hypocrite that he votes against bills he knows will pass yet makes sure to stuff as much personal pork as possible into those bills.

[Greg F]

Boo freaking hoo. Is only Paul allowed to lob hand grenades?

[popdonnelly]

Aw, Freepers pick on Ron Paul all the time.

[John D]

Paul repeated an assertion from a previous debate: "The fact that we had troops in Saudi Arabia was one of the three reasons given for the attack on 9/11."

I guess cut and run feels we have not done enough to appease the terrorists.

[ejonesie22]

According to the Paulettes, yes...

He is the only one with Constitutional authority...

[mvpel]

Sent to the author:

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It’s factually incorrect to say that there were “no” WMD in Iraq.

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.

[RamingtonStall]

Ron Paul is an embarrassment to the GOP and he is an embarrassment to Libertarians.

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

[uxbridge]

You right. He should of asked the demagogic fraud Paul, to explain why any limited Govt Conservative should support a candidate, like Ron Paul, that has over $400 million in earmarks to his name. Why we should support a candidate such a complete hypocrite that he votes against bills he knows will pass yet makes sure to stuff as much personal pork as possible into those bills.

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?

[xjcsa]

Huckabee may be a nanny-statist, but he’s right about Paul.

[NavyCanDo]

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.

[StarCMC]

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.

[pnh102]

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 1784 when the Barbary Pirates were openly attacking US shipping and taking US citizens as slaves.

Fixed it for you.

[pnh102]

It’s factually incorrect to say that there were “no” WMD in Iraq.

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.

[bmwcyle]

Who cares Ron Paul is an idiot.

[uxbridge]

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.

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?

[George W. Bush]

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A good article, click through to read the rest. TheStreet.com has a growing interest in Dr. Paul.

[Liberty2007]

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.