(11/22) Republican Debate On Natl Security - Heritage Foundation & AEI - OFFICIAL Thread

[Matt Collins]

This is the OFFICIAL thread for the AEI Heritage Foundation debate on Tuesday night 11/22 regarding national security:

http://www.heritage.org/Multimedia/Video/2011/11/Republican-Debate-on-National-Security-and-Defense

[URL="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/10/National-Security-Debate-Moves-to-Nov-22"]http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/10/National-Security-Debate-Moves-to-Nov-22


[/URL]It is my understanding that Wolf Blizter will be the moderator.

 

[bluesc]

Seriously?

 

[AuH20]

They should cancel this.

 

[Matthew Zak]

Imagine the judge moderating one of these debates. He'd probably kamakazi his career to pimp Ron Paul.

 

[Ben Bernanke]

Does anyone know where to get tickets to this debate?

 

[iamse7en]

The uproar over the 89 seconds is a two-edged sword. I have a feeling Ron will get more time this go-around, but they'll do what they can to paint him as the terrorist-pandering kook. Ron is right, we all know he is, even the experts know he is, but the general public is so blinded by the military-banking-media cartel, that they'll continue to hate a constitutional foreign policy of freedom.

 

[bluesc]

They should cancel this.

Why do you still post in Ron Paul threads? Ron impressed me at the last foreign policy debate in his 89 seconds, and he will do well here.

 

[AuH20]

Why do you still post in Ron Paul threads? Ron impressed me at the last foreign policy debate in his 89 seconds, and he will do well here.

Why have a debate solely on national security? And it's being sponsored by AEI?

 

[AuH20]

Ron shouldn't even attend. I call bullshit. There is nothing to be gained in an environment where you're going to be ambushed and pummeled unfairly.

Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.[6] More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an AEI visiting fellow; and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar. Other prominent individuals affiliated with AEI include Kevin Hassett, Frederick W. Kagan, Leon Kass, Charles Murray, Michael Novak, Norman J. Ornstein, Richard Perle, Radek Sikorski, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Peter J. Wallison.[7]

 

[bluesc]

Why have a debate solely on national security? And it's being sponsored by AEI?

They already had one, and Ron did well. As long as he uses the panama canal answer, he should be fine.

 

[V3n]

He's running ads on National Security, why wouldn't he be there?



And if they black him out - that's another $1 mil in angry donations!

 

[HeyArchie]

MFW when the debate is 5 days away and the thread was started today:

 

[WilliamC]

The uproar over the 89 seconds is a two-edged sword. I have a feeling Ron will get more time this go-around, but they'll do what they can to paint him as the terrorist-pandering kook. Ron is right, we all know he is, even the experts know he is, but the general public is so blinded by the military-banking-media cartel, that they'll continue to hate a constitutional foreign policy of freedom.

All Ron needs to do is say that he's the only candidate who knows the difference having the strongest national defense in the world versus being the largest military offensive power in the world, since it is far more rational not to mention easier and more moral to advocate peace through strength, not peace through aggression.

Unfortunately too many make too much money, and/or enjoy some visceral enjoyment from watching war and violence, and even some of those that don't are willing to lie about it.

Ron Paul just needs to be courageous enough to call war for profits sake evil, and those who support it either ignorant or also evil. There is no nation nor possible coalition of nations that could possibly mount an invasion or external conquest of the USA, only if we are stupid enough to spend ourselves and bomb others into oblivion will we bring about our own demise.

 

[Matt Collins]

Does anyone know the official Twitter Hashtag?

 

[tsai3904]

Does anyone know the official Twitter Hashtag?

#CNNDebate

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-the-cnn-republican-national-security-debate/

 

[mwkaufman]

Important note on the hosts: the Heritage Foundation is best known to me as the originator of the health care individual mandate and the American Enterprise Institute is best known to me as the neoconservative foreign policy think tank of the GOP. If they control who gets in the audience, Paul could get booed badly, and if they control the questions there could be another Blitzer question like his famous, "Are you saying that society should just let him die?" Although maybe it will be more along the lines of let Israel die.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

$64,000 question, "Will the TPTB whisper in Wolf's ear not to ask Ron Paul that question or "It's setup time, ask Ron this question"

http://yfrog.com/kg4l1loj

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

#CNNdebate

wolfblitzercnn Wolf Blitzer
Rehearsing #CNNDebate at historic Constitution Hall in DC. Suggested Q's? Tues 8PM ET yfrog.com/kg4l1loj

Heritage Heritage Foundation

Six hours until the GOP foreign policy debate on @CNN! Visit us on Facebook for an ongoing conversation at 8pmET! herit.ag/akW
12 minutes ago

Heritage Heritage Foundation

POLL: Which foreign policy statement is MOST important? Click to take our poll & watch the #cnndebate tonight at 8pmET! herit.ag/fnx
20 minutes ago

Heritage Foundation FB POLL: h xxps://www.facebook.com/heritagefoundation/posts/10150415993259481

 

[asurfaholic]

What a shit ass poll that cnn put up....

5 options, all of them pro war. We are in for a rough ride tonight.... gonna invest in some big boy drinks so I can watch it.

 

[jkob]

It's going to be ugly but Ron will be the lone voice of sanity up there and I'm confident that most viewers will feel the same.