Monday, December 3, 2007

Ron Paul on C(IA)NN's Late Edition

I was surprised that Blitzer actually gave him the respect to just ask the question and let Dr. Paul talk.

Maybe they are beginning to understand how angry their shenanigans and disrespect are making us
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"Paul: Republicans Face Certain Defeat With Pro-War Candidate; Congressman says base must change views on Iraq or forget about the White House in 2008" by Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, December 3, 2007

Ron Paul has a message for the Republican base who continue to offer blinkered support for the endless occupation of Iraq - pick a candidate who has vowed to bring the troops home immediately or surrender the White House in 2008.

"Since 70 per cent of the American people want out of the war and they're tired of it - the Republicans better pick somebody who is opposed to the war or have a new foreign policy or they can't win," the Congressman told CNN's Wolf Blitzer yesterday.

"The sentiment is shifting, the people are sick and tired of the war, we can't even afford it, we can't even fight the war without borrowing the money from the Chinese - so it doesn't add up - it really doesn't matter whether I'm right or wrong, the war is going to end because we're going to have such a political and financial havoc here....this is usually how empires end - by spending too much money maintaining their empires," he added. Watch the video.

The Congressman's warning is backed up by the polls. A recent Zogby survey found that a sizeable majority of Americans will not vote for a pro-war candidate. Zogby polling analyst Fritz Wenzel agrees that Ron Paul is the strongest contender out of the entire Republican field to go up against Hillary Clinton because of his lone anti-war stance.

In an earlier part of the interview, the Congressman elaborated on his response to Senator John McCain's feeble attempt to smear Paul as a Nazi appeaser during Wednesday night's debate.

"First off, Iraq is not Nazi Germany," a humored Paul commented.

"I thought it was Hitler that caused world war two, not the American people....it didn't make any sense - then he was awfully confused about isolationism versus non-intervention - there's a big difference," said the Congressman.

Paul said that non-interventionism meant not getting involved in other country's affairs and "not pretending that Iraq is Nazi Germany."

"Iraq had no army, no navy, and no weapons of mass destruction - it had nothing to do with 9/11 - so the comparison makes no sense," he concluded.

McCain's claim that U.S. troops want to stay in Iraq has no basis in reality.

Out of all the Republican candidates, Ron Paul has by received far the highest military donations, that is donations from members of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard. The Congressman has received double McCain's total and over eight times the amount garnered by Romney or Giuliani.

The troops support Ron Paul because Ron Paul advocates bringing the troops home.

Moreover, a recent Zogby poll found that the Congressman also has the highest support amongst military families, far ahead of Giuliani, McCain or any of the other Republican stooges who want to keep the troops in the meat grinder.
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Yeah, and he is sending Giuliani to the bottom of the river -- something the mob could never do:

Giuliani nearly drowned out by rival's supporters
"It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's name was Ron Paul.

"RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!" — a crowd chanted from Glover Park, effectively drowning out comments from the former New York mayor and occasionally changing the chant to "FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!"

"We just came by to say, 'Hey,' " said Rob Miller, a 35-year-old Paul supporter with a mischievous grin, who with his cohorts said their candidate would trounce a weary looking Giuliani in the New Hampshire primary.

In an interview afterward, Otis Brumby Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal, said he hadn't made up his mind who his newspaper would endorse in the Republican primary.

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, when asked, stayed mum about his favorite, saying only, "I'm for the Republican candidate."

Brumby predicted Giuliani would run the best nationally of the Republican field, but he wasn't sure how he would do in Georgia or Cobb County, where many party faithful have balked at the twice-divorced politician's past of supporting gun control and abortion rights.

Giuliani, the current Republican presidential front-runner, had about two dozen friendly people come to the square to see him — about the same number as those shouting for Paul, who is raising record number of dollars but still running in the back of the GOP pack.

A Paul supporter, Craig Hatcher, a 33-year-old Navy veteran who lives in Powder Springs, said of Giuliani, "I wouldn't necessarily say he is a liberal. I'd say he is more of a statist who wants the government to run our lives."