No Show; No Surprise

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why Ron Paul wouldn’t attend Governor Huckabee’s forum that aired on the Fox news channel tonight.

However, I did try to do a little research to find out if the Paul campaign was giving any kind of answer or legitimate reason.  I couldn’t find an answer. I found comments saying Paul wasn’t invited - not true; I found articles saying he was invited.  Besides Governor Huckabee isn’t stupid - he wouldn’t make the mistake of not inviting him. Some wrote that Paul didn’t attend because he wasn’t in South Carolina at the time – Right; so he isn’t going to make an effort to attend all the debates and forums? Like that’s really smart. Only more excuses from the Paul campaign that appears will say and do anything to defend him.

Believing the explanation from “the horse’s mouth”, Governor Huckabee stated at the onset of the forum that, Ron Paul turned down “repeated invitations” and that he was campaigning in Nevada instead.  The question is then, why didn’t Paul bother to show.

Paul’s disdain for Gov. Huckabee isn’t a secret.  Perhaps, Paul is embarrassed to face Huckabee after the lies he told about him in the 2008 Presidential primaries – one of those untruths being that Gov. Huckabee was anti-home school.  That couldn’t have been further from the truth, yet a lot of Ron Paul supporters were sucked into believing it.

Paul or his campaign has spread the same kind of dishonest rhetoric about Senator Rick Santorum this campaign, saying he is not pro-life and he is anti-second amendment.

This “rumor” really fired me up as I have watched Senator Santorum for many years, and he has always been one of the most consistently conservative members of the Senate. He is probably the most consistently pro-life candidate there is; and he has an A+ record from the National Rifle Association.

I guess what frustrates me more than anything about Paul, is the many areas of deceit he has been caught.  Yet he claims to be the only candidate with any character.  Yeah, he’s a character alright.

Of course, I guess the other reason he didn’t attend could be the fact that South Carolina is known for their evangelical, conservative base. I suspect Paul knows he doesn’t stand a chance in this state.  The polls definitely reveal that fact, with Paul placing 4^th. 

The other thing that really irritated me about Paul and some of his supporters in this forum is that it was arranged to allow questions from voters that were “undecided”, yet it was obvious that there were a few Paul supporters allowed to ask questions. One voter at the end of the forum looked embarrassed when he got caught admitting he was for Ron Paul, when they were all to have stated that they were still undecided voters.

I suspect Paul will do well in the liberal state of Nevada. I just wish the Paul campaign would tell the truth about why Paul wouldn’t attend Huckabee’s forum. More than that, I wish he would tell the truth about who he really is, and quit pretending to be a conservative. His voting record, and his many radical statements clearly show otherwise.  He is conservative on fiscal policy and nothing more.  I prefer truth.