Rate Ron's question to McCain

[RevolutionSD]

It was an excellent question because it made Mccain look dumb.
A war question would have allowed mccain to puff out his chest and talk about his service and honor and all this crap.

10/10.

 

[Cam]

The PPT . . . The American people are too ignorant to understand . . . and that is why RP hasn't had the votes he deserves.

I blame the media for not doing their job.

 

[Fields]

It was good for people who understood it, but many didn't.

 

[aknappjr]

How many new votes did we get from the question? Zero.

To be a successful politician, you need to put yourself in the mind of the average voter. The question appealed to the Ron Paul supporters, but not to the average voter or Paul-leaning voter.

 

[nicky6]

sigh.

i'll keep truckin for ron to the end, but he isn't doing himself any favors.

 

[Crickett]

McCain may not have understood it , but average Americans won't either so in general it was an ineffective question, IMHO

Agreed. I gave it a 6, but I didn't know the answer. It was obvious McCain didn't, wither, but RP never told anyone why the answer was important.

 

[Crickett]

I just got in. Can somebody please post what the question was?

No. It was an esoteric question that no one will be able to remember unless they watch a ut of it..

 

[homah]

i wish he asked romney or mccain "will you debate me one-on-one before super tuesday? and if not, why?"

 

[NMCB3]

The question wasnt for you, it was for the establishment, media, and wall street.

BINGO!

 

[TaiwanGuy]

would have been better if prefaced by "mr. mccain, since you claim to be "well-versed" in economics, perhaps you could tell me...."

 

[Chadd Murray]

Hahahaha the fact that so many people have voted this 10, or even above 5 is a sign that this forum is full of 'sheeple' following a different type of pastor. It was a terrible question that was spoken terribly. Why do I care that he probably doesn't know what the blah blah committee is? Is it that important? I've personally never heard of it. Paul didn't even frame it as an attack on his knowledge (maybe out of fear that he might actually know) and instead asked him whether he'd cut it or take its advice... It was just... so terrible.

Attacking him on social security would have been a much better economics question.

 

[reaver]

Hahahaha the fact that so many people have voted this 10, or even above 5 is a sign that this forum is full of 'sheeple' following a different type of pastor. It was a terrible question that was spoken terribly. Why do I care that he probably doesn't know what the blah blah committee is? Is it that important? I've personally never heard of it.

I'd never heard of it either; But people who were intending on supporting McCain might have been listening closely and realized he had no answer. You can not understand what the board or organization is while still realizing that McCain didn't have a clue what the question was. But still I'm disappointed 10 is the most popular answer.

 

[Chadd Murray]

But even the very few who probably saw it as a "McCain doesn't know" moment would be perplexed as to why they should care. You've got to talk in 'real' terms that 'real' people can understand, the only people he hit a home run with on that question are probably people with interests like his own, which is very few people.

 

[N13]

I gave it a 1.

Ron Paul and McCain may as well have been speaking French because only 0.1% of viewers could understand what was being said.

That question was as valuable as dead air space.

 

[reaver]

But even the very few who probably saw it as a "McCain doesn't know" moment would be perplexed as to why they should care. You've got to talk in 'real' terms that 'real' people can understand, the only people he hit a home run with on that question are probably people with interests like his own, which is very few people.

absolutely right.

 

[kirkblitz]

EVEN though we may night have understood it it made mccain look like a fool on economics. It made paul look like he knew all the unknown crap about econimes and mccain doesnt know shit thats why he has a treasury guy

 

[ErikBlack]

Honestly, at first I wondered why the heck he would have asked that question because nobody would understand what he is talking about, including myself, but the more I watch Dr. Paul the more I start to believe that he is a very shrewd strategist. I think he's pulling a rope-a-dope. He plays the little guy so well that never gets no respect, but then out of the blue he will slip a real zinger in there. Remember Rudy's Reading list? That was a similar surprising Ron Paul zinger and look at how poorly Rudy has done ever since? Rudy is the supposed front-runner and paul is the red-headed stepchild of this race, yet he was able to take him down.

I don't think that Americans really want to understand what their politicians are talking about. I think they are more enamoured by someone they don't understand who appears to know what he or she is talking about. They are not looking for a peer, they are looking for a leader. Now I must admit, I still have absolutely no clue what Ron Paul's question was about, but seeing McCain squirm and sweat trying to answer it made it very clear that he had no clue either, and instead of just saying so and calling Dr. Paul out for asking an obscure or vague question he tried to cover it up, and did a terrible job. This really undermined McCains credibility.

I think Dr. Paul may have some tricks up his sleeve yet.

 

[Duckman]

I would have been far, far, far better to call McCain out on his 100 years in Iraq comment, or even to ask McCain about sound money, than to ask this question.

There is some value to catching McCain off guard, that's why I voted '2' and not '1'. However, I thought McCain's answer was actually relatively good, it could have been much worse considering he so obviously didn't know what he was talking about. Another saving grace for McCain is that I think the general public will forgive McCain for not knowing what this is, since they don't know what it is either. it was certainly much more forgivable than when McCain mistakenly referred to Putin as the head of Germany recently.

But to ask a question about a topic even die-hard Ron Paul supporters don't know much about isn't wise. Also, I think even if the average joe decides to look this up, they won't think the PPT is that bad. It's supposed to protect against market crashes, that's good right? We know it isn't, but for them, sigh.

Worse, doesn't this seem like the kind of question a crank would ask?

 

[trout007]

Do you know who got it? Stock Brokers and buisness people. This will show McCain hasn't the foggiest clue on economics. The President's Working Group on Markets or as it is affectionatly known "The Plung Protection Team" was put in place after the crash in 1987. It is completly secret so nobody knows exactly what is going on but it has the Secretary of the Tresury, SEC, and Federal Reserve. They are the reason there was a 600 point spead in the Dow a few days ago. When things look really bad they take a few hundred Billion and buy a bunch of securities to stop the drop. This forces the shorts to cover and makes the market bounce back. It also completly distorts the market setting it up for even more punishment. Of course they buy those stocks with money printed from the Fed.

 

[tpreitzel]

1-10.. post your rating here.

I rated the question a 9 because it's an excellent question! However, Ron never clarified what the "Working Group on Financial Markets" does for the audience! Furthermore, Ron never forced McCain to respond to the question. He just let McCain ramble.