Republican Debate - LiveBlogging II Posted by Shadi Hamid

That was funny. Mike Huckabee informs us that no one knows Hillary better than him. Um, ok. Crowd laughs.

Someone said they believe in dividing Iraq into three states, also known as the Biden plan. Go Biden!

Tancredo's a really bad speaker.

Is Ron Paul a medical doctor? He's the only one that Chris Matthews calls "Dr."! Makes him sound really smart.

Did Paul just call upon the memory of Robert Taft? Sounds familiar. Wasn't he that isolationist guy? No one in the crowd probably got that. Probably better that way.

How many Reagan references can you really stand in one 90-minute period. I'm sure someone did a count.

Is it really fair that the Republicans got a Democratic moderator? Chris Matthews got a bit aggressive.

Comments

[Pieter Friedrich]

Paul is an OB-GYN. He served as a flight surgeon in the USAF.

And yep, Taft was a non-interventionist.

[John C. Randolph]

Ron Paul is an obstetrician. He mentioned in an interview I saw that he's delivered over four thousand babies in his career.

-jcr

[John C. Randolph]

Ron Paul is an obstetrician. He mentioned in an interview I saw that he's delivered over four thousand babies in his career.

-jcr

[Avery Knapp]

Ron Paul IS very smart! He's a constitutionalist,

[Maureen]

Has everyone gone to www.politics.MSNBC.com and rated the debaters? Ron Paul is so far out in front right now. It's beautiful. M

[Brad]

Ron Paul trounced his opposition just like I knew he would. He also got almost ZERO mention by the so-called "pundits" after the debate, who mysteriously thought that Mitt Romney had "won the debate"...

P-lease.

Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Rudy Giuliani wouldn't know the constitution if it bit them on the...(pick a body part).

[Bill Williams]

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County.

[Dave]

Ron Paul is not a libertarian as some have said in other venues, even though he once ran on that ticket. He had no choice back then but to use that party just as he has no choice but to use the Repub. party this election.

Ron Paul simply believes that all three branches of government should strictly adhere to the constitution. What a novel idea.

[David Allen Begy]

Dr. Ron Paul kicked butt in the so called debate. He is the right candidate for the right time. Look at the poll on the drudgereport (oh wait you can't - they took it down!) and he came in a close 3rd and was climbing. Look at his numbers in the PMSNBC poll and it becomes pretty apparent that he's hitting the right note around America! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18436681 His credentials are impeccable. The MSM can spin about the "big three" turds in this race but this Republican is with Ron! Ron Paul is now a rock star! Neocon's can spin it any way they want, the bottom line is Ron Paul is a serious canditate! You know he's on the rise when CNN has to put on a clip to distort his position on the war at 0700PST this morning!

[Gary]

Ron Paul was the clear winner of the debate. He was the only candidate who didn't sound like he had memorized a bunch of GOP talking points memos. He voted against the war, against the patriot act, and against funding the war. Amidst the flip-floppers and fence-straddlers, he was a paragon of consistency and devotion to principal. He is bound to have the neocons and neolibs worried.

[David Tomlin]

Ron Paul is not a libertarian . . .

I beg to differ. His voting record is solidly libertarian.

[Steve Heath]

Libetarian? Conservative? No one label defines Ron Paul -the closest is that he is an American Patriot. Unfortunately the media has given that term a negative connotation.

America is in big trouble - our only hope is to elect Ron Paul.