OFFICIAL : Meet The Press thread : Sunday Morning!!

I liked it. Only damaging thing was the stuff about Reagan and if you understand what he meant by his "failures", it's all good.
 
Lois said:
Jeff From Va and I Have a Dream --

Who's side are you on, anyway??? :confused:
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What irony. Ron Paul is all about individual liberty, but some Ron Paul supporters oppose any criticsm of Ron Paul.

Healthy dialogue requires the inclusion of differing viewpoints. If you disgree with that, then you are supporting the wrong candidate.
 
jeff_from_VA said:
When someone who campaigns against earmarks is shown to have used them himself 65 times, and then tries to take the position that he was trying to relieve the taxes of his district by taking some back, I call it pure pwnage.

He got caught with his hand in the same cookie jar everyone else's hand is in. Only it's worse for Ron Paul to have his hand in that cookie jar, as he is campaigning that we need to be on a diet.
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Ron Paul does not campaign against earmarks because earmarks aren't an issue.
 
It went decent. He did a few questions great, a few questions meh, and Tim Russert tried to smear him with other journalist quotes from 20 years ago.
 
you guys have made it sound pretty bad..just got done with part 1 so far so good. The snakepit analogy was perfect.
 
I am still digesting this, it was not good. But it was not enough for me to lose my support of him and what he stands for. The media want this message to end, so we are going to get shots at us. Russert dug up anything he could to undermine us, Paul stood his ground.

Still a Ron Paul supporter!
 
grizzums said:
I am pretty much in agreement with you.

I was going to give Ron a 5/10 on this...but thinking about it again, Id give him a 6. Russert is good at what he does and our Dr. for the most part handled it well, imo. I think RP did better than several that Ive seen on MTP (Guliani, Romney, HC, McCain). Someone else mentioned that he hit a sac fly on this rather than a home run, and I think that is a good analogy. Overall, I am pleased. Could have been better, could have been much worse. With RP, for me, it has always been the message and the conviction behind it...the delivery is somewhat flawed and I'm not sure how much it can be polished as RP is simply himself (which I respect immensely). Unfortunately, I think far too many people in this country pay more attention to the sizzle rather than the steak and I just hope the message is powerful enough to resonate in those folks heads. I think the fact that there is no clear front runner and all the candidates are flawed in one sense or another means that people will have to have more of an open mind when looking at the candidates. With that door to the mind being cracked open (even just a little), it may be just enough for Paul's message to slip through it.

Our turn out needs to make history. Its not that the young folks and the disenfranchised are Paul's only support but that segment NEEDS to be registered and they NEED to turn out for Paul to pull this off. I bring registration forms with me to work everyday (at the UW) and am doing everything I can. Everyone else is too...let's continue to sprint to the finish line.
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Agree with you on Paul not knowing the Stats/Facts.. I mean, how can HQ not have him dialed in on that stuff??!! There's only the war issue and IRS to worry about right?

As for no sizzle.. come on man, the very end of the fascism question was a walk-off home run IMO. Eloquent, charming.. and brutally honest. I think that will register with voters.
 
I thought he was great ... scoffing at Tim "ah c'mon, Tim" ... he got plenty of time to refute all those out of context 1988 quotes and give several responses on privacy / fascism, a reasonable immigration policy, the point that the budget / dollar can only be saved by cutting the military ... "
"We just raised $10 million in two days .... we haven't had the primary yet .... do u ask John McCain " about 3rd party... very good, I'm pleased .. . Now I'm not too pleased about excluding him in the poll the panel is talking about ... here we go state polls are better ... good quote from the guy who had Lou Dobbs on his table - giving up on republicans and will never vote for Hillary - that's a Ron Paul voter.
 
wfd40 said:
As for no sizzle.. come on man, the very end of the fascism question was a walk-off home run IMO. Eloquent, charming.. and brutally honest. I think that will register with voters.
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+1000

it will take finesse, but i believe this is the win/lose issue of the election...

it just hasn't been framed quite right (yet).
 
Hopefully regular viewers of MTP will put this in context and match them up the other interviews.
 
Ozwest said:
This interview has to be taken in context.

Compared to other Presidential candidates I've seen interviewed by Russert, Ron did extremely well.

He also came across as "genuine," which the other candidates did not achieve.
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I agree. Paul is starting to look quite cool under pressure. Maybe the biased media coverage thus far has hardened him. That's a good thing. And yes, he did come accross as genuine.
 
Awesome analogy regarding American foreign policy vs. Al Queda:

If you step in a snake pit and get bit, who's fault is it that you got bitten? You because you stepped in the pit or the snakes because they bit you?
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That was just from part 1 of 4. I didn't really think he was much off during the first minutes. He delivered as his usual unemotional manner. Of course, I can see how this might be a "turn off" for voters who want a great deal of worthless and meaningless passion.
 
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