Exit, Stage Right
By The Stiletto (bio)
Michigan Republican Party chairman Saul Anuzis plans to circulate a petition among Republican National Committee members asking debate sponsors and broadcasters to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates. At the GOP candidates’ debate in South Carolina Tuesday night, Paul put forth the proposition that that the Sept. 11 terror attacks were the result of misguided U.S. foreign policy, which Anuzis characterizes as being “off the wall and out of whack.”
According to The Associated Press, Anuzis told attendees at an RNC state leadership meeting: “I think he would have felt much more comfortable on the stage with the Democrats in what he said … And I think that he is a distraction in the Republican primary and he does not represent the base and he does not represent the party.”
Being a free speech kinda gal, The Stiletto doesn’t think Paul should be banned from future debates just because he’s a moonbat. However, the time has come to thin the herd so that candidates in future debates can get to answer more questions, and give longer answers to the questions they are asked.
According to PollingReport.com, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and Tommy Thompson have never cracked the 5 percent mark in any major poll. So yes, Paul should be given the hook before the next debate – along with the other six hopeless presidential hopefuls.
That leaves Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney – with plenty of room on stage for Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich to join the ensemble.
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