Source: Prison PlanetSteve Watson
During Last night’s NBC hosted GOP debate in Florida, Ron Paul was
once again roundly ignored and dismissed as a potential candidate.
Paul spoke for less than 6 minutes out of the hour long debate. He
was skipped over completely on three questions when everyone else got
to speak, and was not offered the chance to respond to several attacks
on his policies from the other candidates.
In comparison, Romney and Gingrich were afforded close to 35 minutes
of speaking time, not even taking into account the now ubiquitous
bickering between the two that viewers had to once again endure.
When Paul did want to speak he had to raise his hand and wave at the
moderators like he was a troublesome fourth grader at the back of the
classroom.
Debate moderator Brian Williams took around 15 minutes before
finally asking Ron paul a question. The line of questioning from there
on in essentially amounted to ‘You are unelectable so when are you going
to drop out of the race?’
“To say that there has only been three races and talk about not
being electable, I think is a bit of a stretch,” Paul said, once again
highlighting that he had no desire at this time to run as a third party
candidate.
Williams then asked Paul if he would endorse Newt Gingrich, again
glossing over the fact that Paul is still as much in the race as
Gingrich is. Williams even asked Gingrich if he would welcome an
endorsement from Ron Paul, as if Paul was already out of the race.
The Congressman pointed out that the delegates out of Iowa have not
been appointed yet. “Quite frankly we have a pretty good chance of
getting a good number of those.” Paul said, adding that when matched up
against Obama, he has polled as well as, if not even better than the
other three remaining candidates.
The Congressman did manage to speak briefly to some important issues
such as monetary policy and foreign policy, and he was able to make a
salient point about Gingrich being forced out of office when he was
Speaker of the House in the late 90s.
“He didn’t not run for Speaker two years later,” said Paul. “He didn’t have the votes, that was what the problem was.”
