[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOq3O8g1xw4"]Mitt Romney: I dont know what the Constitution says! Ask Ron Paul - YouTube[/ame] Now to be fair, George's question is a complete load of crap. He took his chance to (yet again) raise a wedge issue that nobody in either party actually wants in order to push his own liberal viewpoint. But still... HOW is it that this entire stage full of so-called "conservatives" can't answer such a simple question about Constitutional law?? Why do they have to defer to the guy that they keep insisting is a "nut"?? I thought conservatives are supposed to be up on all this "Constitution" stuff? Why the Hell are these people even running for the Republican nomination when they can't answer such a simple question? And how does *ANYBODY* run for the office of President when they clearly don't know enough about the Constitution to uphold and defend it? That's kinda the job description. Yeah, Paul knows the answer, but that's not the point. THEY *ALL* SHOULD KNOW THE ANSWER! Holy crap. These idiots are on the wrong stage....
I agree that ALL candidates running for president should be required to know the consitution. Its not that much to ask of a person.... That doesnt excuse the meida for what they did I normally do not defend other candidates because that should be the job of their supporters but the media did a hack job on Mitt with this line of questioning.
Yet the TEA partiers cheer them, call Paul a nut and dismiss anything he says...with a copy of the Constitution in their pockets and a "DON'T TREAT ON ME" sigh held high, ready to vote for any of the lip service candidates. If it weren't so sad, I'd think its a joke.
I'm with you. I can't stand Romney, but that question has no place in this debate. Nobody who's voting tomorrow gives two squirts of warm pee about contraceptive banning. Nobody in either party wants to do that and none of the States are even considering doing that. The voters want to hear about policy, philosophy, and character. If George doesn't know what those people consider important, he shouldn't be moderating the debate. But still, anybody seeking the Republican nomination should have at least a passing knowledge of the Constitution. These people are a disgrace.
Not only should they know the Constitution, all of them should have a clear and precise plan how to, successfully, create long term and well paying jobs. People are willing to forgive a lot if they can put food on the table and have a roof over their heads.
The more I think about it, the more it irks me. "Well, we could ask our resident Constitutionalist"... (as the rest of them look to Paul pathetically for some kind of clue) I mean really! You guys are candidates for the Republican nomination for President. You're in NEW HAMPSHIRE fer cryin' out loud! The average person on the street up there knows more about the Constitution than they do!
You took this whole thing out of context. You do know that George is a flaming liberal, and thus will try anyhing to make the Republican candidates look foolish, but I thought Romney threw it back in his face rather nicely. I still don't know why we see these debates handled by liberal moderators. His question was a hypothetical and should not have been in there in the first place. Mitt did just fine as he did with any other silly question aimed to take him down. Mitt will be our next president. That's what you should be concentrating on now.
Well, everything is in there. 10th Amendment. Powers not specifically reserved or denied, etc. But even that would have been preferable to the answer we got. Note to Republican voters: Don't wrap yourselves in the Constitution if you're just gonna turn around and vote for every clueless Morgan who can't be bothered to do his homework. These simpering jackasses aren't fit to pass a Civics test, let alone assume the highest office in the land.
No I didn't. I'm with you on George, but "I don't know, let's ask the guy who cares" is *NEVER* an acceptable answer. At least not to those who call themselves "conservatives". And a liberal POS like Romney will never be President so long as I have anything to say about it. I'm no fan of Obama either, but at least he will tell you to your face that he doesn't care about the Constitution.
Republicans don't need to know the Constitution they can interpret it however they think it goes, at any given time, depending on their mood and distorted knowledge of history.
You missed the point entirely concerning the hypothetical question George gave to Mitt. It had nothing to do with the Constitution as Mitt so rightly pointed out. The question was MOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't miss the point at all. You didn't get an argument from me on that and you're not going to. Moderators are supposed to ask questions that inform the people who are actually voting, not push their own agenda. Nevertheless, the response of everyone on that stage other than Paul is pathetic. They're neither fit to be Republicans *nor* Presidents, let alone both. Hell, they're not even fit to be American citizens according to the naturalization test! I mean that literally. Your average immigrant getting sworn in who barely knows English is more fit to fulfill the obligations of President of the United States than almost everybody on that stage. That's simply indefensible.
As a support of Ron Paul, are you aware that he would tell you that the government cannot create jobs?
Let that slide as a side issue? LMFAO! The entire Republican/Conservative/Tea Party message has all along been to tell the American people and the liberals in particular that the government isn't there to set up and fund the welfare entitlement programs or any jobs other than for our military. Wake up bud and smell the tea leaves.
Exactly. Staying out of people's lives, the free market...is a plan. The plan would be to get Gov.out of the way, instead of enlarging it so that it creeps into every aspect of our lives. The only one who seems to know this IS Paul, not the ones who slaughter the Constitution under the cloud of doing for us, and not the ones who cheer for those who want Gov regulate everything we can think, do, or should do.
Other than law enforcement. I don't think the military should be funded by the government, perhaps unless a disaster occurs.
Then how would they get funding? It's the responsibility of the federal government to keep its citizens safe and to protect our freedom.
