Texas Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul sweeps New Hampshire poll.
The GOP would-be-presidents took the stage tonight in an attempt to achieve several objectives. First they wanted to sell the notion that President Bush’s surge is working. Secondly, they wanted to insist that leaving Iraq would somehow dishonor the troops. Lastly, they wanted to turn on Ron Paul and try to torpedo his candidacy.
Facing daunting tasks of a news channel that is at the heart of the machine, Faux News, Paul had to deal with being virtually ignored in comparison to the anointed candidates such as Giuliani, McCain and Romney. Heck, he got one for every two questions to the other second tier candidates such as Huckabee and Brownback. Besides the stacked deck, Dr. Paul also faced the attacks of the Fox News staff, disguised as questions.
The first question posed to Dr. Paul was a purposeful misquote, where he was asked about an alleged quote where he said that people should be allowed to carry firearms on airplanes and that by doing so, maybe the terrorists on 911 would have thought twice. Of course this is not what Dr. Paul had said. He had stated that if the airlines had not been required to submit to the government they could have protected their own customers. The question was designed to give a question to Paul that he would have to correct instead of actually answering