Posted on 05/15/2007 8:49:20 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
On defense for much of the evening, Giuliani switched to the attack nearly an hour into the debate, challenging Rep. Ron Paul's suggestion that the U.S. bombing of Iraq had contributed to the terrorist attacks of 2001.
As someone who lived through 9/11, the man who was New York mayor at the time, Giuliani said sternly, "I don't think I've ever heard that before, and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations."
His rebuke to Paul drew some of the loudest applause of the night from the partisan audience at the University of South Carolina campus.
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I never said you called him a traitor. My comment was specificaaly adressed to those who did. Apologies for not making that clear enough. :)
Giuliani said in the post-debate interview that he didn’t understand what Ron Paul said about “blowback”. That is not surprising from someone who doesn’t understand how interventionist foreign policy can contribute to hatred of Americans by the 10 foreign nationals who committed their well-coordinated suicide in his city on U.S. aircraft on September 11. Giuliani will obfuscate how his disdain for INS policy in the weeks/months before 9/11 with his promotion of sanctuary laws allowing foreigners on expired visas protected by Giuliani’s santuary to hijack U.S. aircraft from NY airports and turn right back on them ! Rudia’s personal contribution to the attack in his city will come out further in the New Hampshire GOP debate on June 5.
Until last night, I was unaware that Hannity is in the tank for Giuliani. Wow. Is he EVER.
I project the results of that’d be as successful as boiled ice cream.
Maybe you don’t reognize an anti-war kook when you see one.
In fact, after the debate, I plan on donating some money to his campaign. He’s got my vote.
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That’s apalling to me.
It possible - for at least two reasons:
1. The level of intelligence and ability to vote for what is best for the long range benefit of America has been diminished by the dumbing down of Americans and the invasion of immigrants - both legal and illegal whose voting instincts are driven by the leech reflex.
"What's in it for me"?presumptively
2. The "conservative" party in America has been diluted by cowards, morons and professional appeasers.
Unless a major new strike against America by our enemies, angers and stiffens the resolve of Americans to FIGHT.
NONE of the Democrat candidates or the Democrat party of today can be relied upon to fight external enemies.. They're too busy fighting for power within the country.. Republicans, Conservatives, Christians and producers are the only attractive enemy to Democrats....
I hate this.
People can’t support Rudy here anymore, but useful idiots can quote propaganda straight out of the mouth of fanatics like Osama bin Laden.
Literally.
FreeRepublic.com has turned into bizarro world the last few months.
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I agree 100%.
Yet they are supporting Ron Paul!!
Ron Paul is right on the money.
I thought HE was the crazy aunt in the attic.
“I am quite aware that the manner in which we entered into that war was not on a sound Constitutional footing.”
It’s on the same constitutional footing as John Adams’ Quasi War, Thomas Jefferson’s First Barbary War and James Madison’s Second Barbary War. Ron Paul also voted to authorize force in Afghanistan without a declaration of war.
Neither scientific, both open to Paul's natural allies: leftist anti-American nutbars.
He won the poll because DU was all over it.
That's a strawman right there. Paul might not have used those precise words, but he sure as hell blamed the US for 9/11.
I am comforted by the fact that Ron Paul will never be President of the United States.
Ron who?
“Although Congress never voted on a formal declaration of war, they did authorize the President”
However, Ron Paul’s apologists here always claim that the war in Iraq is unconstitutional because Congress didn’t vote for a formal declaration of war.
And what about Mexico?
And on this issue, Rudy is absolutely right. Paul is just a different kind of nutroot.
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