Ron Paul on The View (Awesome Interview)

[American]

Joy serves a purpose, she has tits and ass so I guess her opinion matters. According to the chatter class.

She is a mindless buffoon.

 

[Hurricane Bruiser]

I thought it was pretty good for the time given. It showed him to be thoughtful and he was able to get some of his policy ideas out there. It was apparant to me from that interview that he is not an abortion crusader but is quite reasonable and wants the Constitution obeyed.

 

[DRV45N05]

It was a great interview. I think Ron struck the perfect tone for the audience in it. Well done!

 

[bew2005]

I agree with the opening post. Around noon today I got a call from a friend who is a little out of the political loop and is a big Bush Republican. She said: "wow, Ron Paul did a great job on The View today. He did great handling (can't remember name but the red hair lady) ... I can't stand her....he turned it right around on them....etc".

Long and short of it...she didn't say she was ready to vote for him but knows I think the world of Ron Paul and has now seen him in action.....she'll be a convert before KY's primary in May ;p

 

[FrankRep]

Awesome... Look at the honors already.

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[H Roark]

I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but it might have been better if that Elizabeth girl, who is also pro-life, had been on the show with so much abortion discussion.

I was saying the same thing at the end of the interview.

Ugh I can't stand that Joy Behar! I think that Ron Paul performed well, but the interview itself was horrible. Those talking heads could not even grasp his logic.

 

[FrankRep]

I was saying the same thing at the end of the interview.

Ugh I can't stand that Joy Behar! I think that Ron Paul performed well, but the interview itself was horrible. Those talking heads could not even grasp his logic.

He just gave a new way of looking at it. It's okay. It was good.

 

[Wayne Hammond]

People need to stop listening to the paid staffers from other campaigns who come on these boards and blow everything negatively out of porportion.

This seems to be your common theme in many threads here, Blowback. When people disagree with you, rather than argue the points with proof or logic, you simply claim that they are "paid staffers from other campaigns". Jeesh.

Still waiting on my paycheck from the Rudy campaign.

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[FrankRep]

This seems to be your common theme in many threads here, Blowback. When people disagree with you, rather than argue the points with proof or logic, you simply claim that they are "paid staffers from other campaigns". Jeesh.

Still waiting on my paycheck from the Rudy campaign.

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That stuff happens you know.

 

[Mark Rushmore]

While I was watching I was pretty pissed at the whole thing, but in thinking about it afterwards:

1) He walked into the lions den so to speak, this is probably one of the hardest spots for him to enter, between the ignorance ('Nothing came before Jesus!') to and the topics.

2) What started off as your typical ARE YOU PRO-CHOICE OR ANTI-CHOICE, THIS IS A BINARY DECISION AND WE ELECT OUR PRESIDENT BASED ON THIS ISSUE quickly became a discussion on specifics. Rather than being able to write him off on one issue, interested viewers now must parse the issue.

3) Most importantly, he showed more respect to those women and their audience than any other candidate would have. He didn't hesitate for one second to engage them on the issues and treat them as capable and intelligent participants in a discussion; where other candidates would have given them a smile and just started talking about something off-topic or nodded endlessly - he spoke with them not at them.

Sure there are some who might have written him off from the first word, but this was essentially a freebie. Most of the audience were probably never going to hear about him at all, and the ones who might have would probably have heard his positions explained by some talking head. Now they, for better or worse, get to hear and see him.

 

[Anarchrist]

When I saw the show this morning I thought it really sucked. I came to the forum today just to see what others thought of the interview. When I saw "Awesome Interview" in the title of this thread I thought, "great more unsubstantiated hype for fanatics who think the slightest critical comment is going to sink the campaign". But after watching both segments again, I have to agree that it was a decent interview. I think part of the problem this morning was that it was the first time I watched the show and after a few minutes I was in a pretty foul mood. I can't believe people are mindless enough to watch this crap every day. I turned the volume down and turned my attention to other things, but the clattering of four bittys still was nerve wracking. Because of the lower volume and not paying close attention I missed most of the 3 minute intro segment. So after recovering from the rotten mood the show put me in and seeing the full intro with the interview, I still think there was room for improvement but overall a pretty decent job.

grace & peace,
dave

 

[SeanEdwards]

Why the hell can't somebody on Ron's staff get the man a handkerchief?

Also, somebody tell our guy that he needs to unbutton his jacket when sitting on a couch like that for an interview.

 

[american.swan]

I heard about how bad the interview went, but after watching it Joy does like Ron Paul and she was stating in her comment what she thought to be true, that he won't win, but at the same time it is clear that she wants him to have the nomination. Good interview.

 

[Brian Ristuccia]

I liked the interview. Ron Paul and the risks of current middle east foreign policy were also discussed extensively on The View back in May 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6SfmXigHpE

I do wish this most recent show had spent more time on foreign policy, but I think that overall The View has taken a very positive position on Ron Paul.

 

[noztnac]

I thought Ron Paul was great but the overall interview was awful. If they had discussed Iraq he could have won a bunch of new supporters. But those idiots on the view honed in on abortion which is an issue that is so divisive that it even causes Libertarian meetings to erupt into debate.

Still- it was good exposure if there is anyone intelligent watching the View.
That I can't confirm.

 

[Sakimoto]

I think the interview sucked. Oh well, at least it was exposure.

 

[angrydragon]

The question now is, do we have any new members from The View?

 

[FrankRep]

The question now is, do we have any new members from The View?

You mean after all the stupid insults from posters here about how dumb they are?

 

[transistor]

ron held his own, but man, those women are dense

 

[grfgerger]

The interview was fine, people were overreacting