The solemn day didn't temper Paul's looniness.
Paul said that 9/11 "wasn't an inside job, but I don't think we've had the real truth either."
Not an inside job. Wow.
Paul gets points for not being as crazy as Rosie O'Donnell or Kevin Barrett.
This exchange was priceless:
Zig: Now, you're running for president, Ron Paul. When would you go to war?
Paul: When it's declared.
What a leader!
Zig: OK, what would be a good cause to declare a war?
Paul: Somebody attacked us.
Zig: And you don't think we were attacked on 9/11.
Paul: Not by a country.
Zig: So unless you're attacked by a country with a flag, and a state, and some boundaries, you don't go to war.
Paul: Well, how can you go to war against a tactic? Terrorism is a tactic.
Zig: I agree with that.
Paul: Timothy, Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. Did we declare war after that?
Zig: Well, wait a minute. Hold on a second. Timothy McVeigh was not linked to a worldwide...
Paul: You don't know.
Zig: Well, there's no evidence...
Paul: There's some people who think that he might have been.
Zig: There's no evidence that he was.
Paul: But I'm saying that terrorism isn't easy to define.
Zig: To compare 9/11 to Timothy McVeigh, to me, shows an incredible amount of ignorance about the nature of Islamic facism.
Good grief.
I don't understand how Paul has managed to get anyone to support him. He's a nut.
We know Paul is weird.
He's that goofy, inconsequential candidate -- the comic relief.
Some more bizarre, "Dale Gribble" sort of comments:
Paul: Our greatest threat to our freedom is our own government.
Paul: We have done more to undermine our liberties than the al Qaeda has ever done to us.
Typical Ron Paul drivel. It's reckless and irresponsible, the rantings of a fool. He's not a player in this election. He's a joke.
The following comments from Paul, however, aren't the least bit funny. When talking about Iraq, Paul bashes the troops.
It's plain and simple. His words aren't taken out of context. They are what they are -- SICK.
When Ziegler remarks that we haven't been attacked since 9/11, Paul responds:
Paul:No, because we're over there and they get to kill us so much easier, while we're over there in their yard.
Zig:Wait, wait a minute. Get to kill...That's an insult to our military, Congressman. Get to kill us? You don't think that our military...
Paul: It makes it a lot easier to kill Americans when we're in their country than it is to come over here.
Zig:Wait a minute. It's a hell of a lot easier, to use your terminology, to blow up a mall, if they could pull it off, because people in a mall aren't armed.
Paul: But we have security...
Zig: So you're saying security guards in a mall do a better job than U.S. Marines in Iraq?
Paul: So far. So far they're doing pretty well.
This U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE said that mall security guards are doing a better job than Marines in Iraq.
That's inexcusable. It's an absolutely reprehensible remark.
He completely dismisses how honorably the Marines are serving in Iraq, their courage and their sacrifice.
Ron Paul has always been irrelevant on the '08 presidential landscape. The one and only reason he's received any attention at all is because of his band of crazed supporters, the odd phenomenon of Paul's appeal, the Paul cult.
But after this interview, his campaign is dead. It's over.
Paul doesn't deserve to stand on the same stage as the other Republican candidates and debate with them. He doesn't deserve to be included as part of the Republican '08 field.
No reasonable American would support him.
The man isn't just a joke. He's a disgrace, to himself and the nation.
Paul owes the Marines an apology.
He owes their families an apology.
Paul owes every man and woman who has served in Iraq and elsewhere in the War on Terror an apology.
Paul should apologize to all Americans and fade away.
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Hear the full interview here.
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