How about a ticket of Giuliani and Duncan Hunter?
Absurd Rudy?
Who call the cattle black here ROFL
I notice that the Fox text poll puts Ron Paul in the lead at 30%. That tells me that liberal democrats are spamming the poll to sabotage the polling. There aren’t 30 Republicans in the USA who support his bizarre opinions.
I notice that the Fox text poll puts Ron Paul in the lead at 30%. That tells me that liberal democrats are spamming the poll to sabotage the polling. There aren’t 30 Republicans in the USA who support his bizarre opinions.
About the only thing I’ve really liked from Rudy....in the debate. No one should let Ron speak like that.
I notice that the Fox text poll puts Ron Paul in the lead at 30%. That tells me that liberal democrats are spamming the poll to sabotage the polling. There aren’t 30 Republicans in the USA who support his bizarre opinions.
rudy julie looked ‘absurd’ with those female reading glasses. he actually reminded me of my grandmother.
I wasn’t watching the debate, from the written accounts, it sounds like Paul blew it, and Rudy was there to pick up the rebound.
I like Ron Paul, but that statement was just dammed idiotic.
What was absurd was Giuliani flat out dodging hard questions while 60 million people looked on.
Peace be with you,
Why is is so hard for the media, _including_ Fox News to report what Congressman Paul actually said? Why do they have to rephrase (read: twist) his words to make him say something he didn’t, then “cheer” for Mr. Giuliani’s unprofessional non-rebuttal of a statement that wasn’t made? I don’t understand why Congressman Paul’s statements were omitted from the coverage of Mr. Giuliani’s applause line. Stating that geo-politics have Newtonian properties, such as every action leads to a reation, isn’t insane or unpatriotic. Understanding one’s enemies and their motives is instrumental to victory, to paraphrase Sun Tzu.
James R. McClure Jr.
Anti-Federalist Democrat
Rudy did have his moment to shine, but that’s all it was, a moment.
Rudy certainly did better than the first debate.
In the next debate Ron Paul will be talking about his crazy Aunt in the attic. Where did they find this guy?
Ron Paul was stating a positin well laid out by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the CIA, and FBI.
Here is the entire August 23rd, 1996 fatwa from Bin Laden:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
FreeRepublic isn’t conducive to frank discussion on the matter, so try some of the books, reports and other source materials from the 9/11 Commission report:
Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Yale Univ. Press, 2000),
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars:The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to Sep-
tember 10, 2001 (Penguin, 2004),
.....
Rudy Guiliani damn well knows the truth, and he damn well knows that 90%+ of the intended audience for this debate does not know the truth, and he made a snap judgement on stage in front of millions of eyeballs, he decided to pull the wool over your eyes, and decided he’d try to get away with it.
And from viewing the responses on FR so far, Rudy correctly calculated the odds he’d get away with grossly twisting the words of a US Senator using his New Yorka vaudeville song and dance.
Guiliani destroyed Ron Paul tonight, and I am not pleased to say it.
Quite frankly, there were too many abortion questions.
But there were Republican lines that captured my notice (approximate):
Takes more money to do it over than to do it right . . .
Let’s set benchmarks in Washington . . .
Spending money like John Edwards in a beauty shop . . .
China is cheating in trade . . .
I’m beginning to hear a lot of conversions here . . . It’s truly beginning to sound like more conversions than at a Baptist convention . . .
My fear is that McCain-Kennedy would do to immigration what McCain-Feingold has done to campaign finance . . .
It’s a national security issue to move away from petroleum products (dependence) from countries that want to kill us . . .
(The scenario - ) . . . prevent . . . elect a President who will prevent the need to ever go there (torture) . . . the real question is how you prevent the bomb from going off . . .
(The scenario - ) . . . What are you measuring here? U.S. lives or your standing in the world? . . . protection of U.S. lives, that is the responsibility of the President . . .
(The scenario - ) . . . it will never, ever, be business as usual when you attack Americans on our own soil . . .
(The scenario - ) . . . when we go under, Western Civilization goes under . . . you better respond in a way that makes them fearful of you . . .
Now, even though I don’t think I made mention of a remark Giuliani made in the second debate, it seems Giuliani may benefit from this second debate. Romney did the best in the first debate as far as making an impression. In the second debate, Giuliani’s personality came out and probably benefited the most (e.g. vocal interruption to Ron Paul, “I’ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th – and I would ask the congressman to withdraw . . .”).
The concise/bumper sticker/cartoon version of the right foreign policy (and the traditionally Conservative one) is Theodore Roosevelt's 'Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick'. We've not been doing that.