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Santorum and Romney Both Good on Iran

By Quin Hillyer on 12.15.11 @ 9:58PM

This has been Santorum's main focus since leaving office, as he headed a project focused mostly on Iran (but also other rogue states) called "The Gathering Storm." He is SO right on this. Meanwhile, Romney sounded even better than Santorum -- the question asked him was more of a softball, but he really did well with it. Anyway, both candidates distinguished themselves on Iran.

Oh, now Bachmann gets the line of the whole debate, saying she has not heard a more dangerous answer in any debate than the one given on Iran by Ron Paul (who basically took IRan's side and said they deserve to have nuclear capability).

This is wy Paul should never be president. On foreign and defense policy, he's just nutty. Sorry, but it's true. Whatever happened to Ronald Reagan's "peace through strenghth"?

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Red Phillips| 12.15.11 @ 10:54PM

attacking a country because it might get a bomb which it then might use is not even preemptive war, it is preventative war, and it is a blatant violation of Christian Just War principles. You can't bomb people "just to be on the safe side." This is absurd, and it is grossly un-Christian.

So Quin, are you endorsing preventative war?

Red Phillips| 12.15.11 @ 11:03PM

Also, you're playing the same rhetorical game that Aaron does by feigning shock/outrage when Ron Paul makes foreign policy statements that are entirely consistent with what he has been saying from the start. You know where Ron Paul stands on foreign policy so why the game playing by acting as if this is all new info to you?

jay| 12.16.11 @ 12:11AM

Who's scared of Iran? That tiny country, please. If the US played with the Soviets like we do with Iran, millions of Americans would be dead. If Ron Paul is a nut, then everyone else on stage is a megalomaniac.

jay| 12.16.11 @ 12:11AM

Goldstein Chickenhawk| 12.16.11 @ 12:43AM

Well of course their right on Iran. The writers at the American Spectator. Have never seen a war they didn't want someone else to fight in. Especially that effeminate Lord character with his goofy hair.

jacob| 12.16.11 @ 1:33AM

The military wants Ron Paul. Wake up. The American people DO NOT want to start another war. Paul is again absolutely right on this. The thirst for more blood by the war mongers of the GOP is disgusting and completely insane.

Johnny| 12.16.11 @ 1:35AM

Why is it that America is the only country being threatened? It's not because we're free or prosperous, it's because we simply don't mind our own business. How come Switzerland doesn't have to live in fear...or Sweden. Every country has the right to protect its sovereignty. It is not America's job to spread democracy, only to keep it.

marty| 12.16.11 @ 1:39AM

Bachmann is calling for immediate bombing of Iran and in the same breath telling everyone that Ron Paul's policy is dangerous. Is that an oxymoron? She is a goofball. Imagine her in the middle of the night during a PMS attack with her finger on the button. The first hot flash and Boom! WWIII. She and Santorum perhaps think that's what the Red meat republicans want to hear, so they're happy to dish it out, blood, veins and guts on a porcelain plate. After the argument she had the audacity to claim she was the peace candidate. Sheeesh