ALL of Ron Paul's replies @ ABC/N.H. debate

[Pedrique]

The best evidence for me of why RP is qualified and the other are boobs is the open ended gas prices question at the end.

"Anybody?"

RP raises hand high. "Yeah, I'll take this one."

I can't help but think the others were BEGGING someone else to talk first just so they'd have a reference point for making a semi-smart sounding reply. They wouldn't have had a clue what to say.

 

[Detonator]

This was my favorite part of the debate.

President Bush:

BUSH: You can't be the president unless you have a firm set of principles to guide you as you sort through all the problems the world faces.

And I would be very hesitant to support somebody who relied upon opinion polls and focus groups to define a way forward for a president.

It is -- and so, my question, if I were asking questions to people running for office, what are the principles that you will stand on, in good times and bad times? What would be the underpinning of your decisions?

Ron Paul:

PAUL: The president asks a very important question. And we should all come together and we shouldn't have that many disagreements, because we should be bound -- bound by the Constitution.

But the people in this country think we live in an age of relative ethics, is what they have come to the conclusion of.

Sure, profess to believe in the Constitution, but why have we gone to war since World War II without a declaration of war? Why do we have a monetary system that is not designed by the Constitution? Why do we have a welfare state running out of control, not designed by the Constitution?

You can't pay lip service to the Constitution without obeying it.

And we should have peace and prosperity. That should be our goal.

We, in foreign policy, ought to have a golden rule. We ought to treat others as we would want others to treat us. And we don't treat others so fairly. We treat them like we're the bully, that we're the policeman of the world, and we're going to tell them to behave.

PAUL: If we don't -- if they don't listen to us, we bomb them. If they listen to us, we give them more money. And it's bankrupting this country because we don't live up to our principles, the principles that are embedded in our Constitution.
(APPLAUSE)

 

[curiousobserver]

you are still contemplating on that?

Are these guys really total idiots?

you are still contemplating on that?