Originally Posted by pacelli Originally Posted by

I think the OP makes an excellent point and it would be helpful to expect some serious foreign policy blowback, especially considering the timing of the debate. That being said I think RP needs to focus on his foreign policy PLAN, specifics, and not theory. If he spends the majority of his answer time on a theoretical discussion, the average voter is going to feel confused as to what a Paul administration would look like.



I anticipate a question along these lines, "If you were the President during 9/11, would you have done anything differently?"



Paul can absolutely dominate this question if he focuses on the question, rather than bringing up Bush's 2000 platform and talking about how our country is engaged in militarism, or worse, bring up the military industrial complex. All of those things are true, but the average voter needs something else. He needs to demonstrate a sense of confidence and the ability to manage a disaster, to calm the country down. To show the republicans that he isn't going to wander all over aimlessly and get into a theoretical discussion when the country is being attacked.



And I really hope that he has a chance to show his sensitivity, as a human being. He closed down the last debate talking about being compassionate, and got the last word in-- something nobody else had said.