Posted on 12/16/2011 3:18:22 PM PST by seanmerc
Here is Ron Paul in the debate last night. This is Bret Baier. [SNIP] Bret Baier: "Congressman Paul, many Middle East experts now say that Iran may be less than one year away from getting a nuclear weapon. Now, judging from your past statements, even if you had solid intelligence that Iran, in fact, was going to get a nuclear weapon, President Paul would remove the US sanctions on Iran, including those added by the Obama administration. So to be clear: GOP nominee Ron Paul would be running left of President Obama on the issue of Iran?"
PAUL: You know what I really fear about what's happening here? It's another Iraq coming! It is war propaganda going on, and we're arguing... To me the greatest danger is that we will have a president that will overreact, and we will soon bomb Iran -- and -- and the sentiment is very mixed. We ought to really sit back and think and not jump the gun and believe that we are going to be attacked. That's how we got into that useless war in Iraq and lost so much in Iraq.
RUSH: Now, you may have astutely noticed that Ron Paul didn't answer the question. So Bret Baier, after the applause died down, said, "Congressman Paul, the question was based on the premise that you actually had solid intelligence as President Paul" that they got a nuke. We're not talking about being on the come. "I'm asking you about solid evidence they've got one, and yet you still at that point would pull back US sanctions -- and, again, as a GOP nominee, be running to the left of Barack Obama on this issue?"
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
Paul misstated Clappers testimony last night. Clapper didn’t say Iran DIDN’T have nukes or was close to getting them.
He said he DIDN’T KNOW if they did or were.
Frankly I would trust the MOSSAD over Clapper anyday.
Obama’s intelligence chief ignorant of U.K. terror arrests?
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/31391
You are clearly as insane as RP.
Agree with that, and so does my imaginary military family.
LOL Good grief! None of the muzzies ever mention our ME policies, with the exception of bin Laden who knew he was yanking the lib’s chains, as their reason for hating us. RP needs to go tell them what it is that they think.
“You are clearly as insane as RP.”
I anticipated you would have a response as cogent, honest, and respectful as your earlier post. Boy, was I ever right. I suppose you will just have to continue helping others to find the right candidate for them with your persuasive rhetoric. Keep up the good work!
I heard the Luntz segment on Hannity but I hesitate to confuse fanaticism with organization. The crazy Paul supporters have *always* been able to engineer polls and they did so in the last campaign. I do not fear the Paulbots will turn out in any substantial amount and even if they do, like you said the Iowa caucuses are a terribly poor predictor of eventual success.
Paul is crazy. This is not an insult. I’m simply pointing out that “Dr. Paul” says things that are provably false and uses them as ammunition *against* the United States. Bachmann was correct when she said that he was dangerously naive. Paul might have reasonably coherent answers on domestic policy. The problem is that his foreign policy answers - which have ranged from naive to insane to dangerous - are an automatic disqualifier. I don’t care how well you can remodel my house if you aren’t going to luck the f***ing door.
Get this through your head. Ron Paul is *not* Presidential material.
Well said
Thank you. There is no reason to waste time with nutballs.
There are a BUNCH of folks like that on FR, but they have nothing in common with Ron Paul!
Well...
...we kill a million of our own people A YEAR and we Conservatives don't seem to really care about it.
We conservatives disagree with your opinion on that.
I’m not running for the job that has to deal with it....he is.
Those with tin foil definitely do...they view him like they view the original cult of personality....Obama.
“Get this through your head. Ron Paul is *not* Presidential material.”
So he doesn’t have the right stuff to be president, but barky does? Barky is after all the President.
I find these anti-Ron Paul threads fascinating. If Ron Paul were as insane, delusional, evil, wicked, antisemitic, pacifist or naive as the bulk of the posters seem to think, there is no way he would be doing as well as he is. He’d be getting the 1-2% that John Huntsman is getting. But in actuality he’s got a fair shot at winning in Iowa. And depending on the poll he’s either number 2 or 3 in NH.
Oh, I forgot. Everybody except those who are anti-Ron Paul are insane, delusional, evil, wicked, antisemitic, pacifist or naive.
It was more of rhetorical question. Thanks for the links I will most certainly use them.
At least he is consistent with his views
There you go again trying to make sense in a world of GOP global imperialists. The elite just bring up the scare tactic of international threat and all other issues are forgotten, and the reactionaries chase the bait. Wait and see, Romney will eventually be the one with a plan that best seems to take on Iran, the knucklehead Republican voters will flock to him and he will be the nominee. Once again we will have been suckered, and Obama will get another four years.
Back in 1996 Rush was used to help take out Pat Buchanan by effectively labelling him a kook. Ever since then I have believed that when it gets down to nut crackin time Rush will always perform the role of GOP elitist shill. No matter what he says he is in bed with the elite or he has been compromised by them.
First, Paul complains that we’re flying drones over Iran.
Second, he says we have no evidence Iran is building nuclear weapons.
To get evidence you have to collect it. Paul is so far off the rails he doesn’t even know he’s contradicting himself.
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