John Stephenson writes, “Besides FOX starting out with a bash Fred Thompson session, this was probably the most interesting segment of the debate. Huckabee takes on the Conspiracy theorist Ron Paul about the surge. Enjoy”:
Well, I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it; the whole segment feels like a slow-moving train wreck. (Maybe if a quart or two of Steve Green’s liquid painkiller would have helped.)
I’m not at all comfortable with some of the language that Mike Hukabee uses to describe America’s involvement in Iraq. We didn’t “break” Iraq, any more than we “broke” Germany in the spring of 1945. Those countries were already dysfunctional totalitarian nightmare states, long broken by the dictators who ruled them. In both instances we we’re/are cleaning up the aftermath of decades of self-inflicted disaster. But Ron Paul’s response is astonishing, as he invokes the word “neocon” in a slurring fashion as part of some sort of Oliver Stone/Seven Days In May conspiracy theory. Fortunately, Huckabee rebukes him on that.
Way to go, R.P.; take two Protocols of the Elders of Zion out of petty cash. Not to mention this lovely parting gift to watch on your way out.
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