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View Full Version : The entire GOP moves closer to Ron Paul's politics and away from Bush




bobbyw24
06-23-2011, 04:39 AM
by Jack Hunter

Ron Paul won the debate — and I don't necessarily mean the presidential debate that took place last week, but the most important debate now taking place in the Republican Party. Those who gave former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann high marks for their debate performances are not wrong. Both candidates exhibited that presidential "style" that is worth so much to pundits and voters. But what about substance? Who best represents the GOP's current philosophy?

At the second debate of the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, Fox News' Carl Cameron posed the following question to candidate Paul: "Congressman Paul, yet another question about electability: Do you have any?" The audience laughed, as did the other candidates. But Cameron's condescending question did contain a valid point: What place was there in the 2008 GOP for a limited-government, antiwar Republican?

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/the-entire-gop-moves-closer-to-pauls-politics-and-away-from-bush/Content?oid=3481809