(10/26/11) Ron Paul on Fox News - Official Thread

[Diurdi]

The art of rhetoric...

Brain rape disguised as mental masturbation.

 

[WarNoMore]

lol, OBL, Iran, border fence. Why didn't they throw Heroin into the discussion too? Or gay marriage and prostitution? Certainly the most important issues to talk about when the financial system is collapsing. Especially when the guy you're talking to predicted the financial collapse.

 

[georgiaboy]

volumes are spoken just by his appearance on this panel.

Keep teaching them, President Paul.

Keep teaching us, too.

 

[LibertyEagle]

It has nothing to do with his personality, it's totally about addressing the issues in the proper perspective. When you're teaching a child basic math, you teach it to them in a way they can understand, using blocks or holding up your fingers. The same applies to GOP voters, they turn hostile when hearing the words "empire" or "occupation", like giving a kid his booster shot. I wish RP understood this, I know Doug Wead certainly does. Wording his message in a way that GOP voters can fully understand is how we can win, he doesn't need to change his personality or his policies to do this.

Yes. You put it well.

 

[trey4sports]

lol, OBL, Iran, border fence. Why didn't they throw Heroin into the discussion too? Or gay marriage and prostitution? Certainly the most important issues to talk about when the financial system is collapsing. Especially when the guy you're talking to predicted the financial collapse.

Yeah they got to Heroin on the online segment.

 

[sailingaway]

Almost everything out of Ron's mouth in the on-air segment has been typed by Rockwell over the last few weeks. Also reiterated his desire to move towards free trade and travel across borders.

Thumbs up.

GOP primary voters aren't big Rockwell readers.

 

[sailingaway]

lol, OBL, Iran, border fence. Why didn't they throw Heroin into the discussion too? Or gay marriage and prostitution? Certainly the most important issues to talk about when the financial system is collapsing. Especially when the guy you're talking to predicted the financial collapse.

heroin was in the on line segment.... well, crack methamphetimine, anyhow....

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Also built the organization for him in Iowa before the election. He has an open line with the social conservatives there. That's his job you know? Networking.

He burned some of those bridges when he betrayed Bush & co a few years back.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

GOP primary voters aren't big Rockwell readers.

GOP primary voters are pro-war, anti-gay, and at one point a few months ago overwhelmingly thought Obama was born in Kenya. Time to change the electoral map and infuse the Republican party with new blood.

 

[RDM]

Is there a Tube of the online version yet?

 

[cityoflight]

After reading these comments I feared the worst but I didn't think it was as bad as some made it out to be. Not Ron's greatest interview but I didn't think it was a train wreck by any means. The Iran, OBL, and fence answers had substance... he just needs to get a couple of one-liner talking points in there that people are going to remember. Doesn't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater and become a walking soundbite (not that he would, or could!), just cut a little of the philosophizing out of each answer and replace it with a couple short, solid statements.

All in all I would be disappointed if he does not step it up from this level at the foreign policy debate (should almost know what questions are coming word for word by now), and I would have loved to see him dominate tonight, but I think he at least broke even in a tough setting.

 

[bluesc]

He burned some of those bridges when he betrayed Bush & co a few years back.

You mean putting out conversations that painted Bush positively?

 

[Eric21ND]

Do we have a full video of the online segment?

 

[Lucille]

...

Does Baier's show really get high ratings? Really? I liked the other guy better (which isn't saying much). Baier looks like he belongs on cable access, or a college TV station.

 

[WD-NY]

This was Ron's big chance. 30 minutes in front of 2M+ people, with a chance to make them understand his foreign policy and stop them being afraid of it. I wish he would let Doug Wead prep him properly.

Dammit you can understand the huge pressure, but all it takes is for him to slow down and have a few talking points on the big issues .

yeah... pretty disappointed with the on-air segment as well. He went into his philosophical/educational/talk-about-the-merits-of-the-question-instead-of-just-answering-the-friggin-question mode WAY too many times in this interview... almost like it was 2007 again.

I don't get it. He's been keeping the philosophical/educational nonsense to a minimum lately... was IN THE ZONE ON MEET THE PRESS... and yet ... when he finally gets invited to the biggest GOP interview YET, he reverts back into "libertarian wingnut" mode.

::sigh::

 

[sailingaway]

Do we have a full video of the online segment?

that same guy may have put the rest up. I was watching it myself so I didn't go back....

 

[bronxboy10]

heroin was in the on line segment.... well, crack methamphetimine, anyhow....

Gotta love how Dr. Paul was hushed quick when he mentioned how consuming cannabis is significantly less harmful than consuming alcohol. Keep spreading the truth Dr. Paul!

 

[Eric21ND]

By the way, some of you guys are overly hyperbolic. Ron was pretty solid in this interview. He could work on some things like everyone could. I think he should use the Vietnam example again that we achieved much more in peace than we ever did going to war. Same with Nixon going to China. We could do the same with Iran, being open to trade and talking to them.

 

[sailingaway]

yeah... pretty disappointed with the on-air segment as well. He went into his philosophical/educational/talk-about-the-merits-of-the-question-instead-of-just-answering-the-friggin-question mode WAY too many times in this interview... almost like it was 2007 again.

I don't get it. He's been keeping the philosophical/educational nonsense to a minimum lately... was IN THE ZONE ON MEET THE PRESS... and yet ... when he finally gets invited to the biggest GOP interview YET, he reverts back into "libertarian wingnut" mode.

::sigh::

4 or 5 different people switching topics and viewpoints at will is a lot tougher.

I thought it was fine and thought the Fed guy looked like he caught it... the others have an agenda on foreign policy.

 

[LibertyEagle]

GOP primary voters are pro-war, anti-gay, and at one point a few months ago overwhelmingly thought Obama was born in Kenya.

Primary voters almost won the Iowa Straw Poll for him. Primary Republican voters have him at 12% in some states.

Be careful with that brush you are using to paint. It's way too broad.

Time to change the electoral map and infuse the Republican party with new blood.

I can't argue with that.