Mitt Romney Fails To Sway Ron Paul Supporter At Huckabee Forum

nice straight question from a RP supporter
and a great wavy rhetorical answer from a slick politician !!

It cracks me up when I see these obvious Ron Paul supporters infiltrating the "undecided" forums. I love it.

I really appreciate all the positive comments I've seen on here and on the comment section for this vid at youtube.

First...no, I definitely wasn't a plant, but some of my friends thought it was funny reading comments speculating that I was.

I'm glad everyone seems happy with the question I asked because it didn't go off quite as planned. I wanted to ask Romney if there was anything he could learn from Dr. Paul about economics and the Fed. But the rules of the forum were that the candidates couldn't talk about each other. I didn't think that would be a fair question under those rules and might've led to Huckabee telling Romney he couldn't really answer it (not that I really expected a direct answer anyway).

I know you guys have strong feelings about the Rand as VP thing. Just so you know, I read that idea in a reason.com article on Thursday; it wasn't my own. And just by chance, I met the people selecting the forum questions and participants and got to talking politics and Ron Paul with them right after I read it. I mentioned what I had just read, and they were really intrigued by it. One of them went straight to twitter with it and they wanted it on the show. They were also interested in what I had to say about Romeny not getting our support if he's the candidate in November. That conversation got me invited to be on the program.

Before the show, questioners were told that we would have the opportunity for follow up while we were at the mic. After learning the rules on candidates not talking about each other, I decided I'd ask how he thinks he can possibly gain our support, and as a follow up I would float the Rand idea. However, during the break right before it was my turn, they decided on no more follow ups due to time constraints. So, I decided I'd drop the Rand thing.

When I returned to my seat after asking my question, the show's staff asked me if I felt he answered my question. I told them he didn't asnwer it at all, and they asked if I wanted to speak again at the end of the show. Obviously I said yes, and when they lined us up for questions again during the next to last segment, the had me put right in front. At this point, I didn't know what to expect...were the candidates coming back out as a group? Was I going to speak with Huckabee? I didn't know so I wasn't as prepared. During the commercial right before the last segment while I was standing at the mic, the producer asked if I was going to bring up Rand this time, so I did.

As far as where I stand on Rand as VP, I feel like a lot of you...I would really hate to see him work so closely with Romney. But, at the same time it makes him a major player in the party, gives Paul supporters a greater voice and lines him up to run for president ala Bush 1 following Reagan. Would it be selling out? I don't know, but it's so unlikely to happen that it's really not worth arguing over right now. And, it certainly wouldn't happen while Ron's still in the race. (By the way, I saw some comments about Rand not being his dad. I haven't seen anything from Rand that I disagree with, nor have I seen any positions of his that differ from his father's. If there are, can someone point them out to me, please?)

I have to say I was really impressed with Huckabee's staff and I feel they were fair. They didn't really know how I was going to word my question, and it probably wasn't exactly what they expected. But they gave me a chance to give my thoughts on his response when they saw that he didn't answer my question. I was impressed with that.

If Romney was smart, he would've seen my question as an opportunity to at least show some awareness of us and what we care about and do some reaching out. I know he would never talk about auditing the Fed or renounce his support of the bank bailouts, but hell, he could've played it safe and at least talked about adhereing to the Constitution. He didn't even do that. It just confirmed what I already knew. Either he doesn't care what we our concerns are, or he's so out of touch he doesn't even know.

Last, I'm really happy to read and hear that I didn't sound like a moron. I actually haven't even watched it yet. I have this thing about watching myself and hearing my voice. It's weird.

self edit...double post

Duck, bob, weave, skirt...

Am I the only one that turns into Charlie Brown when the other candidates speak and hear nothing but "CWA CWA CWA CWA CWA CWA QWA QWUUUUAAA."?

http://zeninthecar.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/fun-with-pundits...

I hope people will eventually see that you can not continue the military spending and get the economy in shape. Essentially to accept Dr Pauls economic strategy, you need to adopt his foriegn policy. Look a bankrupt country is a weak country.

Im inspired by your candor, will, and steadfastness.

Why do I support Ron Paul, The Daily, and the revolution? Cause you people make me smarter, stronger, and happier.

Peace.

Rand needs to put out a statement immediately to this effect! Just nip this Romney's VP thing in the bud!

So glad he said that. I think people see us as anti-military when it couldn't be further from the truth. We are against senseless, endless war that we can't afford. RP says this all the time but people just don't get it. I think the people I talk to about it are so brainwashed by the media they can't seem to absorb this concept.
Thanks to this fine man for representing the movement in such a positive way.

And let me add..Why would Romney try to convince a RP supporter to vote for him by bashing Obama for wanting to cut military spending? That's the biggest beef we have with most of these repub candidates, foreign policy. Or maybe I didn't understand that right.

I like this guy. Many of us (myself included) could learn something from him.

Ask direct questions -- politely. Don't rant, ramble or shout. Don't interrupt the answer, no matter how vapid and unsatisfactory it is. Bonus points: Plug Ron Paul -- calmly and unapologetically!

Thank you Sir for representing all of us! Good Job!

Sry if balls offends. But he's sure got some.

Great Job - Romney "blah, blah, blah" Hollow responses without anything solid about how are you going to fix the economy, etc. Come on SC!

the ol Man tickles me to death