I caught the first third of the debate, then just saw Newt’s clips from after that.
What did Paul say? He almost sounded reasonable the little bit I’d heard of him.
On foreign policy, Paul went completely off the reservation saying we killed a million Iraqis and that it is our policy that is driving Iran to get nukes but also saying there is no evidence they are working to get them. He got two dings from the mods but kept on foaming.
After Paul's "moment of sanity" that you heard, it went WAY south.
Paul was asked by Brett Baier about Iran and how he would stop them from their well publicized and publicly spoken views and current actions of trying to destroy Israel and "The West".
The best explanation I can give you, IMHO, was when in the 1988 Presidential debates, Bernie Shaw of CNN asked Michael Dukakis if he would want the murderer of his wife Kitty to receive the death penalty.
Paul's answer was stupifying, Code-Pink sounding, very upseting and audibly non-reassuring to those in the room and to those watching and listening at home who care about Israel and the military defense of the US against idiots like the Iranian militants and other mudlum radicals set on world domination.