[no dems]

I'm no Ron Paul supporter but Fox was wrong for this. This is suppression of Free Speech in it's rawest form. Anyone who supports Fox in this decision has no right to, ever again, slam the McCain/Feingold bill.

Don't be surprised if the Ron Paul supporters storm the auditorium and disrupt the Debate. I'd like to see it. I guarantee you I'd be pissed if they excluded Fred. SHAME ON YOU ROGER AILES AND FOX ! ! !

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Don't be surprised if the Ron Paul supporters storm the auditorium and disrupt the Debate.

Dr. Paul has directed his supporters not to do so. He has bought his own air time in that hour anyway.

This, plus the fact that NH voters saw the other candidates giggling at Paul in the stupid debate, is going to help Paul.

[sourcery]

Fox is wrong; the NH GOP is right.

[Scarchin]

Yawn

[joebuck]

Besides, Paul is always good for few laughs......especially when Fred rolls his eyes and giggles in the middle of his rants.

[hsalaw]

I think they should include all the candidates, even Keyes, who I didn’t know was running until he was in the Iowa debates with Schoolmarm.

[MaxMax]

And yet the Rats refuse to accept an invitation to a Fox debate.

[kingu]

The only people who can suppress free speech is the government, and the only people who are forbidden from doing so. Fox News, a broadcaster that only broadcasts on privately owned channels, is a private entity, welcome to invite whomever they choose to the debates.

You want to take issue with their decision on the grounds that you won’t watch it because of their exclusion, then do so. But making the connection to McCain/Feingold, or calling this a suppression of free speech is a leap of fantasy.

[nmh]

Ron Paul is a waste of human being. I don’t want to see time wasted on someone who has a snowballs chance in hell of winning. Let REAL contenders speak and debate. I agree with FOX on that decision.

[incindiary]

I’m boycotting Fox. I’m sick and tired of the controlled media trying to make our decisions for us... which is nothing new, but it has become much more apparent in recent years.

[Kozak]

This is suppression of Free Speech in it's rawest form. Anyone who supports Fox in this decision has no right to, ever again, slam the McCain/Feingold bill.

In words of Ronald Reagan they paid for the microphone, they get to decide who uses it.

[Perchant]

What they do with the fruitcake Ron Paul is irrelevant.

When they leave out the last conservative in the field, Duncan Hunter, that is an attempt to destroy the Republican Party.

Watch for Fox to set up lots of little fake skirmishes with Democrats, like that fake O’Reilly-Obama hoax that they set up today, to keep selling a phony impression about Fox. The rest of the networks can’t kill conservatism, only Fox can.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hey faux is really starting to suck out loud.

[hodaka]

I wonder if Sean Hannity put any pressure for Fox to eliminate Ron Paul from the debate. I noticed that after the Iowa caucus that the Hannity and Colmes show did not mention once that Paul finished ahead of Guliani and was not that far behind McCain.

[RetiredArmy]

Everyone who is running should be there. The Republic needs to see some of these fools for what they are so that they can be eliminated and move on. The damned press has NO RIGHT to determine WHO should and who should not be running for president. They all should have the same advantage to be heard. The actually let America decide. I cannot stand Paul, McScream, Rudi, or Rummmmmmmmmmnie, but they deserve to be there the same as anyone else. Then the voters decide.

[Vanbasten]

Please. It wasn’t simply Paul they are excluding. Paul has had his say (if you haven’t had a chance to hear his blame america wailing....I don’t know what to tell you). It’s time to narrow the field and have more substantive debates.

This has nothing to do with free speech. He’s welcome to stand outside, and preach his strange, libertarian, pseudo-liberal on foreign policy, rhetoric.