bobbyw24
11-14-2011, 05:24 AM
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WASHINGTON -- In a foreign policy debate dominated by the hawkish perspectives of the GOP frontrunners, two presidential candidates cemented their roles as party gadflies, particularly on the use of military force and the importance of protecting civil liberties.
Both former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) have long distinguished themselves for their willingness to break from Republican party orthodoxy during the 2012 campaign; so far, both have been rewarded with consistently low numbers in the polls.
But while the Huntsman and Paul have occasionally found common ground with their fellow conservatives on certain economic and social issues -- Huntsman, for one, reiterated his support for the Tea Party backed Paul Ryan economic plan on Saturday -- a discussion of foreign policy provided the clearest evidence yet of the growing rift between the two outliers and the rest of the field.
On the most controversial topic of the night, the use of waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation," only Paul and Huntsman came out definitively against their use and stated categorically that waterboarding is torture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/13/gop-debate-ron-paul-huntsman_n_1091066.html?ref=homepage
WASHINGTON -- In a foreign policy debate dominated by the hawkish perspectives of the GOP frontrunners, two presidential candidates cemented their roles as party gadflies, particularly on the use of military force and the importance of protecting civil liberties.
Both former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) have long distinguished themselves for their willingness to break from Republican party orthodoxy during the 2012 campaign; so far, both have been rewarded with consistently low numbers in the polls.
But while the Huntsman and Paul have occasionally found common ground with their fellow conservatives on certain economic and social issues -- Huntsman, for one, reiterated his support for the Tea Party backed Paul Ryan economic plan on Saturday -- a discussion of foreign policy provided the clearest evidence yet of the growing rift between the two outliers and the rest of the field.
On the most controversial topic of the night, the use of waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation," only Paul and Huntsman came out definitively against their use and stated categorically that waterboarding is torture.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/13/gop-debate-ron-paul-huntsman_n_1091066.html?ref=homepage