I didn’t mean that the other candidates said “blow them up”. I meant that a lot of people here thought blowing them up would have been just great, and it was my impression watching the focus group that if one of our candidates had said “nuke iran”, they would have applauded.
My angst was that in that particular answer, Paul was pretty much correct, and the focus group essentially rejected him out-of-hand, I believe because he wasn’t sounding like he would blow them up.
I have to disagree. Paul already had his answer ready to rebuke the other candidates for being to Hawkish. Only problem was they all agreed that the commander of the ship was right to show restraint. When he started answering the question Brit Hume stopped him and reminded him that the other candidates were in agreement with him. He then gave that lamea$$ excuse that he could not hear a thing he was saying. He came off looking like a fool and justifiably so.