Laissez-faire

Fox News held a Republican presidential debate last night in New Hampshire. These are some thoughts I had following the debate:

This would not have been a debate if Ron Paul wasn’t present. He is the only one making it worth while to watch. And he won the post-debate poll easily with 33% of the text vote.

I think Romney is having trouble coming up with fruit cake answers to questions. He struggled last night, looking less like a fake and more like a fool.

Fox News was blatant in their attempt to belittle and discredit Ron Paul. Here are a few of the obvious techniques:

This was one of the most despicable events hosted by Fox News. They have lost all credibility in my book. It was downright disrespectful; and I would say the same thing if they did this to any of the candidates.

Brownback is extremely awkward…and wrong.

McCain actually impressed me a little bit — though still far from the likes of Ron Paul. I was particularly impressed with his eloquent denouncement of torture. I can’t say the same thing for Tancredo who has complete disregard for human rights protections.

Huckabee continues to tell bizarre stories with strange analogies that don’t really make sense. And people still buy into that kind of wacky grandstanding when he throws in a few rhetorical quips. What was disturbing though was his defense of the war which amounted to little more than “we should stand our ground…because we are one nation under God.” What he is saying is that we should blindly follow our government into any war in order to remain united. This goes against the very principles this nation was founded on. As Ron Paul correctly retorted, it is the responsibility of the people to correct the actions of their government; not to blindly follow it into every crazy venture they choose. It is quite appropriate that he used a line from the pledge of allegiance to make his disturbing point. The pledge was written, after-all, by a self-proclaimed national socialist. They tend to put empires far above the individual (see Nazi Germany). That’s too bad. I expected more out of Huckabee.

I really enjoyed the post-debate interview of Ron Paul, where Sean Hannity let his ignorance shine for all to see:

Hannity also tried to explain away Ron Paul’s winning the post-debate poll by claiming it was spamming. First of all you can’t spam these polls. It was a text message poll, and only once vote is counted. His lies are getting worse. Secondly, the spamming conspiracy theory, touted by Fox News was debunked a while ago, when thousands of people started to flock to Ron Paul in his support, wherever he went. Not to mention his outstanding results in straw polls across the country. Wake up people! These people are bogus!

The Ron Paul moments:

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