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Paul lectures Carl Cameron on electability
By: SGT News | Submitted on: 01/11/08SOUTHERN ARIZONA (SGT NEWS) - The Fox News sponsored debate on Thursday evening featured a good number of one-liners and quick sound bites from a majority of the candidates, and it also provided Ron Paul with the opportunity to school Cameron on true Republican ideals and how electable those ideals actually are.
Towards the end of the debate, Fox News' “senior political analyst” Carl Cameron asked if Ron Paul had any electability, and added “there will always be a question as to whether or not you are [electable]”.
“Well, we've only had two little primaries so far. So it's pretty premature to decide which one is going to be the candidate. But, you know, when you think about it, if you measured everything I've ever said, every vote I've ever taken against the Constitution, you know, I'm a strict constitutionalist,” he said.
“Are you suggesting the Republicans should write me off because I'm a strict constitutionalist? I'm the most conservative member here. I have voted, you know, against more spending and waste in government than anybody else,” Paul added, drawing applause from the audience.
Paul continued by asking if the protection of civil liberties disqualifies him as an electable Republican, and added the fact that civil liberties and a sensible foreign policy used to be a part of the Republican Party platform as recently as George W. Bush's campaign 8 years ago.
“Mr. Republican Robert Taft didn't even want us to be in NATO and you're saying now that we have to continue to borrow money from China to finance this empire that we can't afford?”
Drawing more applause from the audience, Paul then asked how the United States can borrow $10 billion from the Chinese and give it to Pakistan's Musharraf, a military dictator, and still attack Iraq and convert the country to a Democracy, clearly insinuating an obvious disconnect between the two actions.
“I defend the platform,” Paul continued. “We, as Republicans, went and doubled the size of the Department of Education, so where have we gone? I think we've lost our way. And then the insinuation that I am less Republican because of that?”
Paul is primarily known as the anti-war Republican. Paul supports an immediate end to the War in Iraq and a withdrawal of our troops from the area, along with surrounding areas in the middle east and around the world. He views the U.S.'s continued presence in overseas nations to be unnecessary and expensive, citing these expenses as a primary reason for the falling value of the dollar.
Towards the end of the debate, Fox News' “senior political analyst” Carl Cameron asked if Ron Paul had any electability, and added “there will always be a question as to whether or not you are [electable]”.
“Well, we've only had two little primaries so far. So it's pretty premature to decide which one is going to be the candidate. But, you know, when you think about it, if you measured everything I've ever said, every vote I've ever taken against the Constitution, you know, I'm a strict constitutionalist,” he said.
“Are you suggesting the Republicans should write me off because I'm a strict constitutionalist? I'm the most conservative member here. I have voted, you know, against more spending and waste in government than anybody else,” Paul added, drawing applause from the audience.
Paul continued by asking if the protection of civil liberties disqualifies him as an electable Republican, and added the fact that civil liberties and a sensible foreign policy used to be a part of the Republican Party platform as recently as George W. Bush's campaign 8 years ago.
“Mr. Republican Robert Taft didn't even want us to be in NATO and you're saying now that we have to continue to borrow money from China to finance this empire that we can't afford?”
Drawing more applause from the audience, Paul then asked how the United States can borrow $10 billion from the Chinese and give it to Pakistan's Musharraf, a military dictator, and still attack Iraq and convert the country to a Democracy, clearly insinuating an obvious disconnect between the two actions.
“I defend the platform,” Paul continued. “We, as Republicans, went and doubled the size of the Department of Education, so where have we gone? I think we've lost our way. And then the insinuation that I am less Republican because of that?”
Paul is primarily known as the anti-war Republican. Paul supports an immediate end to the War in Iraq and a withdrawal of our troops from the area, along with surrounding areas in the middle east and around the world. He views the U.S.'s continued presence in overseas nations to be unnecessary and expensive, citing these expenses as a primary reason for the falling value of the dollar.
In-house Small Government Times news writers
