Perry Reacts to Debate Audience’s Death Cheer: I Was ‘Taken Aback’
- Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:17pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Earlier this morning we posed the question of whether or not the audience during Monday’s GOP debate cheered after Ron Paul was asked if he would let someone without health insurance die instead of taking care of that patient. In the end, Paul wouldn’t, but the audience seemed to scream “Yeah!” before he even answered, and the consensus seems to be building that the reaction was uncalled for.
Joining that camp now is Texas Governor Rick Perry, who was on stage during the incident. He told a local Tampa Bay NBC affiliate on Tuesday that he was “taken aback” by those in the crowd who reacted that way.
“I was a bit taken aback by that myself,” he said. “We’re the party of life. We ought to be coming up with ways to save lives.”
You can watch it below:
(H/T: Mediaite)
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Comments (144)
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:44pmI‘m tired of politicians who are old enough to be my parents but who aren’t mature enough to grasp simple concepts.
Anyone who watched this in context who has full frontal lobe function will understand this is a conflict between an unsustainable Federal-run debt-monster, and individual liberty & responsibility.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 11:28pmFor Blitzer and other narrow minded Liberals there are only two options when a person fails to take personal responsibility by refusing to maintain health insurance, even if he can afford it: 1) Let the guy die, or 2) have tax payers foot the bill. Blitzer completely ignored Ron Paul, who offered a third option, which is to let churches help the man out. Ron Paul made it very clear that in the early days of his own practice that churches often stepped in and paid the bills of patients who could not pay their own bills, and that’s the way it should be in America. I’m not a big fan of Ron Paul, but he articulated the conservative position on this issue perfectly.
Report Post »b.mclane
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 2:02amAll these debates have the same old Liberal talking points which are NOT relevant to this coming election. The moderators all have been Libs except for Chris Wallace and who knows what he is. I think Newt is correct. They spend the entire time going over worn out social issues or pitting candidates who have zero chance against the front runner like they are operating a dog fight. ANYTHING.to avoid talking about J.O.B.S or the economy. I hope in the next 3 debates the candidates have the courage to by -pass anymore Lib speak; take control and speak about matters that are important. Just ignore the moderator.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 6:12amYou’re right TH3. Wolfie was throwing out a red herring, trying to make a political point by using a moral example. I‘m not sure why Paul didn’t show the question logical fallacy before taking on the issue. Ron maybe be a little too hot for leadership.
That Wolfie is one, sneaky knee-padder, ain’t he?
Report Post »lobster
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 8:37amJust rermember half the group gathered there were invited by the co-sponsor CNN. Nuff said.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 9:02amThe DEMS created a “monster” (The Overgrown Federal Government) and now they DEMAND that we feed it! I say let it starve…..Congress should start by cutting Federal Civilian Pay by 15% for FY 2012; and for the next two fiscal years…..Call it the ‘Federal Pay Equalization Act’….
Report Post »Nick84
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 10:51amI think this is an interesting article for anyone who thinks personal charity is a good substitute for insurance:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/ron-pauls-health-care-campaign-manager-kent-snyder_n_961812.html
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:27pmMost of our health care money is wasted to keep old fogies alive a measly extra month. One extra month sucking on tubes so that doctors can get rich keeping them alive for an extra month. If I were in that audience I would have jumped out of my seat dressed as a cheerleader and got the audience in a cheer. Of course let them die.
Report Post »Larry Sheldon
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:37pmHave you read today’s news about the Medicaid rip off?
I like to see a credible analysis showing a comparison between money spent keeping old farts alive another month and money taken by theft.
I’m thinking the cheer was Paulies missing a stuff the ballot box queue.
Report Post »mrbuff1959
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:45pmMy wife is a int,care nurse. I see this every day. No wone has the right to take from another humman being.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:55pmPlease report b.ack here your thoughts when you reach that point in your life
Report Post »opNorthwoods
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:22pmPerry does not meet Republican values…. supporter of AlGore campaign and Hillary care , hes part of globalists meetings etc…
Vote for anyone else but Not for Poser Perry
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 7:45amYAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNN
He supports Gore 23 years ago.
Report Post »marjorie faye
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 9:09amRick Perry did NOT support Hillarycare!!! He sent her a letter before Hillarycare even came into being, asking her to remember rural communities in whatever plan she came up with. He had no idea in advance that she would come up with a monstrosity of a plan.
Rick Perry switched parties over 20 years ago. Get over it!! Ronald Reagan switched parties also!!
Report Post »IlovemyAkita
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:21pmsick of criminals?
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:27pmThe question is academic, because anyone who needs treatment and hasn’t been responsible enough to have a job and have health insurance, or hasn’t put that money away, will still be treated as they are now.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:29pmYup, sick of criminals. Horrified when I find out yet another person was wronfully convicted. 70% of which are minorities. Look up “The innocence project”.
Report Post »iblvingd
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:16pmIts called FREEDOM! FREEDOM to chose how you live! Which is also FREEDOM to chose how you die. If only everyone became RESPONSIBLE for their ACTIONS of FREEDOM, we wouldn’t be having this argument. Yes, there should be a system to take care of those who TRULY need help, but for those who CHOOSE to be irresponsible with their lives, they should equal live by the results of their CHOICE of actions! American needs some TOUGH love!
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:13pmIt is probably a good thing I am not in charge…liberals would be fighting one another with swords in the ring…. I would LOVE to see pudgy Chris Matthews go against moronic Alan Grayson.
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:10pmThis is hardly the first time right wingers have cheered for death. They cheered at the last debate when it was brough up and Perry has overseen the execution of 234 people, including an innocent man Cameron Todd Willingham.
Party of life my A$$.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:21pmCameron was probably a liberal… thinning the herd.
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:33pmAnother classy comment from a rigth winger. It isn’t the media that paints you all as violent extremists. You do it to yourselves.
Report Post »coloradolifer
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:35pm1.3 million — MILLION — abortions in 2010. Your head us up your A$$.
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:55pmI was waiting for somebody to bring up abortion. Don’t you find it hypocritical that you want government to stay out of peoples lives and out of the doctors office but you fight so hard to get involved in this medical decision.
You see nothing wrong with sending them to gas chamber or off to fiight some meaningless war about oil. You say you must protect life… right up the point their born, then it’s, “FU, your on your own.”
Report Post »MyzPhoenyx
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:13pmI don’t cheer for death. This is why people get really annoyed with left wingers.. they spew lies to get their twisted points across. How many left wingers are all for starting a war right here in the US because they think that this country owes them something? Life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness / property. Not a guaranteed income, home or medical care paid for on the backs of those of us that work our fingers to the bone, because they didn’t want to put any effort towards bettering themselves, go get a job and actually earn something on their own merits.
Report Post »ChildOfTheKing
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:49pmIt is TYPICAL of liberals and moderates to pick out 1 little thing that happens or is said and twist it until it is unrecognizable. That is what all of you, who are commenting here, are doing. SHAME ON YOU……EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.
Sometimes I truly believe that there is NO EXCITEMENT IN YOUR LIVES (you know who you are) until you can get on this blog and either SHOCK us all with your arrogance and wit, MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE YOU DO NOT LIKE TO DISCREDIT THEM, or you hate the world and therefore have the need to make others feel the same way you do.
ONCE AGAIN, shame on you and may God have MERCY on your soul. Every single comment you make will either BLESS YOU or CONDEMN you. Just because you type the words, doesn’t make them any less valuable or credible in the eyes of God. YOU WILL BE JUDGED BY THE WORDS YOU SAY – TO OTHERS AND ABOUT OTHERS.
At least, if you are going to comment here, PLEASE BE CIVIL, TRUTHFUL, AND NON-CONDEMNING (racial slurs, gay remarks, etc.). SLANDER, especially if it is no true or it incites people to judge others is MORALLY WRONG. Don’t any of you see that? If you don’t, then you’d better figure out whose side you are on: Satan or GOD’s. You cannot have both; if you serve Satan, then you can’t expect God to help you now, can you?
IF GOD WERE STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU, WOULD YOU SAY THOSE EXACT WORDS TO HIM? I doubt you would, which makes you WHAT?
Report Post »MisesPal
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:21pmActually, I am pro-liberty and I would never say “FU, your own your own” to a baby…I would say it to the mother and father.
Report Post »It is not my responsbility to feed, cloth, shelter and educate yours or anyone else child. If you choose to bring another life into this world, then it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to care and raise that child…neither the state nor is society responsible. If you can’t afford children, then don’t have them; honestly, it is that simple. You shouldn’t be rewarded with tax credits and deductions, govenrment assistance and other government sponsored programs.
Rumrunner3
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 10:30pmParty of responsibility. I know you need mommy goverment to take care of you. Most of us don’t. Nor do I wish to pay more for you to have a free ride. Facts are not a damn thing out there will stop the end from coming. The only thing that I feel bad about as far as the executions go, is they should die the same way as thier victims. Yeah the victim, that the person killed that has no rights, or can even be humanized in the court setting. How many innocents were killed by these vermin. Got an answer for that brain surgeon.
Report Post »ChillyinAlaska
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 10:43pmIt’s the liberals in the audience being exposed from time to time.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:08pmIf a Republican gets elected president next year, they will be unable to use an executive order to waive Obamacare. By then, Obamacare will be the law of the land and nearly impossible to remove.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:25pmGood.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:28pmThen it’s time to take up our muskets.
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:23pmsheep…good that people will suffer and die because they’re unable to get help because of long waits, and denied medical care because its too expensive…
yeah you libs are real compassionate…enjoy your new guvmint dentist…dr. PLIARS.
Report Post »ChildOfTheKing
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:59pmNot true. IF the Republicans can take the majority of Congress, they can cut out a LOT of the amendments and rules down to nothing and strip it away. It may be the law of the land, but if Congress is ruled by good upstanding and CONSTITUTIONAL men and women, THEY WILL FIND A WAY. Believe me, there are legal minds out there WORKING ON IT RIGHT NOW. I do believe if we choose the right person for the WH, it may take 2 years, but WE WILL RESCIND AND DISINTEGRATE OBAMACARE.
Laws are passed by Congress. Laws are rescinded, as well, by Congress. There IS NO LAW THAT SAYS THAT CONGRESS CANNOT UNDO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. Given enough time – and if the Americans can see past themselves and FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION, it should not be yours or my obligation to provide the poor with every single need they have.
JOBS IS THE BEST THING A PRESIDENT CAN DO: HAVE A GOOD PLAN THAT CREATES JOBS AND YOU WILL BE RE-ELECTED. So far, all Obama is doing IS REPEATING WHAT HE SAID IN 2009, in different words. HIS RHETORIC AND FALSE HOPES ARE BEING FOUND OUT BY THE LEFT and now, if they do not want him re-elected.
Take heart. If a strong conservative gets in the WH, IT WILL BE OVERTURNED.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:00pmThe Paulistinians were the ones who cheered, and Paul had to try to talk his way out of it.
Report Post »sbeejustsaying
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:16pmHow do you know who was making the noise?
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 2:20amI think it was rationalman’s lame attempt to sabotage Ron Paul and his supporters. U fail.
Report Post »Alucard
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:55pmWhy is this so outrageous and vile yet BO has said several times that we will not be treating the elderly instead we are going to put them into a comatose state with medication and that is continuously praised by the left?
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:06pmPlease show me were he ever said that.
Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:07pm234 deaths in 10 years under Perry. Some were borderline retarded. More executions than any other governor in HISTORY. He doesn’t struggle with that Perry, however, continues to voice his confidence despite widespread evidence that the system is flawed. Anthony Graves spent 14 years on death row before being exonerated and released in 2010. He’s not the only one: Ernest Willis, Michael Toney, Michael Blair, and Robert Springsteen are just a few of the others who have been released from death row during Perry’s tenure. Maybe Perry has a good reason for believing that these are Texas’s only mistakes, but if he has such a reason, I don’t have any idea what it is. Perry has most certainly killed innocent people while governor. That is what is so vile. Then he has the B-lls to say he’s with the party of life? I hear what he says but I see what he does.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:25pmYou are absolutely right Alucard, under government run healthcare the elderly will be denied treatment by the ***** panels because it will not be cost effective. He stated as much when he said the elderly lady would probably be better off taking pain pills instead of having the hip replacement or operation. But he didn’t have to say it, it speaks for itself, and we have europe’s example for evidence.
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:25pmHeffe, you don’t remember your SAVIOR BHO talking about giving granny a pain pill instead of treating her?? oh yeah I remember it very well…
Jane asks the President if her 100 year old mother (now 105) would have gotten a pacemaker under his plan. Well now that’s a tough one … that costs a lot and maybe we will have to say, just take a pill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dQfb8WQvo
there‘s your savior ’takin care’ of the old people….pushing em off a cliff…
Report Post »godhead
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:54pmOh, garshk, now I AM confused. I just don’t know what to think. Somebody said it. they didn’t say it. It was a plant. It was a Paul supporter. It was a CNN staff member. They meant something different. They were shouting for the death of an innocent man rather than suggest helping him was a good idea, all to show their support for personal responsibility. Now my savior and anointed one, Rick Parry, is expressing concerns over the outburst.
What in the name of the Lord on High Almighty of Nazareth am I to think?
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:51pmReally???? who cares what this Al Gore’s cheer leader thinks or say? Come one Blaze, you rip Ron Paul but you posting this plastic man? When did you start working for nwo?
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:51pmA hundred years ago, virtually no one had health insurance. If they got sick or a disease and they did not have the funds to pay for a cure, they died. They never even gave it a thought that someone else would pay for their care. People were self reliant and they had the courage and grit to accept their lot in life and passed away with quiet dignity, not presuming on someone else to pay for their misfortune. Others are not obliged to take care of me or anyone else unless they want to. I do not expect it.
Report Post »Everyone dies, that is an unavoidable fact. Let’s do it with dignity and some class.
KickinBack
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:05pmNot just a hundred years ago. Thousands of years.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:12pmWhere did we get the idea that taxpayer’s had to keep everybody alive, no matter what the cost?
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:13pmWow… what a comment.
The world was not a better place a 100 years ago. That is why it is called progress.
Report Post »GratefulAmerican
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:22pmI don‘t think you’ve seen many people die without medical care or you wouldn’t talking trash about “dignity”. Our country has made a decision that we don‘t want to leave the last days or even years of our neighbors’ lives to the whims of fortune, allowing those who lack means to suffer the incredible indignities that so often attend human demise.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:23pmHeffe44,
If I get sick with cancer, and I do not have insurance, should I expect YOU to pay for my treatment?
As a tax payer, that is what you would be doing. What if it costs 1 million dollars? Still willing?
Report Post »Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:43pm@yellowfin
You have missed the point. It is not just me that is going to be paying for your health care. It is all Americans that will see to it that your final days are spent with as much dignity as humanly possible. In the American that I have grown to love we take care of eachother, not let somebody body die and live the rest of their days in pain because they had the misfourtune to get sick.
So to answer your question, I am more than willing to throw my fair share into the pot to see that my fellow Americans can have proper care. That includes you too.
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:03pmHeffe44,
I do understand what you are saying, we all have compassion for the very ill. I think what OLD TRUCKERS is saying is that the sick also needs to show human compassion, compassion for the burden he is putting on the one who feels obligated to care for him.
Report Post »I heard of a custom of some Eskimo people. i don’t know if it is true, but if a old man was to see his end coming, he would “take a walk”. That is, he would pack up a little food and set out for who knows where, and pass away out there, where the animals roamed. He died with dignity and was not a burden on anybody in his village or his family. He died like a man, not artificially kept alive in a stinking hospital where his family watches him go with all the pain. Dying with dignity is better than sucking up the family or taxpayers resources.
Heffe44
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:04pmAnd there we have the difference between you and I. I don’t view health care as a burden… I veiw it as a responsibility. A responsibility to treat my fellow Americans better than I would treat a dog. You may want to go “Old Yeller” on sick people, but I don’t.
Conservatism is just an attempt at a moral justification for selfishness.
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:27pmheffe…of course you think its better now…after a century of your vile racist progressivism…that has cost the lives of hundreds of millions….
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:29pmoh and heffe…your ‘progressive’ health care has led to a great deal of suffering and death…people having to wait for treatment….or use a pair of pliars to pull their own teeth…or they don’t get treatment because its too expensive.
your ‘compassion’ is BS…all you want is power over other people’s lives to decide who lives and who dies…
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 8:47pmBack in the “old days”, parents raised their kids with a sense of responsibility that went beyond themselves. When mom and dad got old and/or too sick to live alone, one of the kids took them in and cared for them just as their parents cared for them as a child, gave them shelter, medical care and held their hands when they took their last breath, and then mourned their passing. It was the norm to have grandma and/or grandpa living with the family. Now it seems it is all about, who owes whom what in life and how much is left in the bank account at the end.
We have lost our way in our society. We no longer have any sense of responsibility for those who are close to us especially our aging parents. Shame on us.
Report Post »louise
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 6:26amgreat post, Old Truckers
Report Post »Truthmonster
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:51pmSomeone needs to check into Liberals planting people in the audience. Those rats do that at Tea Party functions. One liberal with a racist sign and all the media focuses on that, then when you find out it was a liberal poser the media never tells that story. This is not the America of 10 years ago. What has happened?
Report Post »Ailene Wright
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:49pmPeople laughed because it was an absurd question. Doctors will treat anyone that comes into the emergency room. They are there to save lives. A person who is irresponsible enough not to care enough about their health by not having insurance should not get a free ride. It should be a debt that follows them until they pay it off. If they don’t pay their assets should be seized and they should not be allowed to take out a loan for a home,car or anything else until their bill is satisfied.
Report Post »Alucard
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:00pmRon Paul said it best in one of the previous debates that the media and the left keep wanting to push the agenda that if you are conservative you can’t be compassionate and that is just not true.
Report Post »tjwdel
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:44pmAmen!
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:20pmAilene Wright,
I agree.
Report Post »Nightwatchman
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:49pmThe crowd as a whole is being inaccurately portrayed as cheering for the death comment. The Tea Party crowd did NOT cheer at that moment ~ a handful of idiots did ~ and this one hideous moment cannot reflect upon the whole of the Tea Party. In fact, the audience quieted down after Wolf’s “death” question. I am not voting for Ron Paul, but I do agree with him that people have the FREEDOM to take risks AND we must take responsibility for ourselves, especially when we are in a position to do so.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:10pmSo you must agree with me that we need voluntary euthanasia….if someone wants to exercise their FREEDOM to live or die as they CHOOSE, then who are we to keep them on life support.
Report Post »Last thing I would want my family to say when the time comes is “at least he’s not in pain any more”
Nightwatchman
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 10:49pmNo, I absolutely do not agree with you that we need voluntary euthanasia. The definition of voluntary euthanasia is much broader than taking someone off life support. You use the phrase “when the time comes.” If your time truly has come and a machine is the only thing keeping you alive, you can specify ahead of time in writing that you do not want your time on earth extended by life support.
But the broader meaning of voluntary euthanasia? What a can of worms that opens up! Aside from the moral issue of taking a human life, the problem with euthanasia is that it is progressive by nature. One thing leads to another. If you think that an older and sick person has the FREEDOM to choose when to live or die, well, then the argument doesn’t stop there. What about a person in their twenties who is healthy physically, but is depressed about life, and doesn’t want to go on? What then? Does that person have a right to be voluntarily euthanized?
Choosing to not pay for health insurance is not on a par with choosing not to live anymore.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 11:23pmWhy do you project so much? Its the same as the conservative argument that if we let gays get married, next we’ll be marrying horses, BS.
Report Post »People who are physically fit, in their 20‘s and can’t handle life die everyday, its called suicide. About 35000 people or about 95 per day, commit suicide in the US. What if these people had to see a doctor first instead of grabbing a shotgun or a bottle of pills, maybe the doctor could find the cause and prevent a suicide.
Why do you shout FREEDOM and CHOICE when it suits you but not when its practical?
Nightwatchman
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 12:13am“People who are physically fit, in their 20‘s and can’t handle life die everyday, its called suicide.”
Yeah, no kidding. I know a little about that. I’ve had more than one young person (friend/family member) commit suicide, and it’s heartbreaking. My point is that a young person may want to end his/her life, but want it done in a painless manner. He/she may not feel capable of killing themselves. So does that person have the RIGHT, the FREEDOM to choose voluntary euthanasia? I think not.
“What if these people had to see a doctor first instead of grabbing a shotgun or a bottle of pills….”
So now you support forcing people to go to the doctor, but you believe in the choice to end your life with a doctor’s assistance? You sound confused to me.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 12:40amI‘m sorry to hear about your losses but you’re not alone, trust me.
On the other hand, I have also had many family members kept alive months longer than they wanted to be and its also heartbreaking to be told by your grandparents that they don’t want to be here anymore, you can see their suffering but can’t help them.
Your rationale that because some 20 year old might seek it out so therefore we should let everyone suffer doesn’t seem plausible but if thats your opinion, I respect it I just don’t agree with it.
BTW I never said people should be forced to see a doctor but I doubt the local supermarket will stock Nembutal so a trip to the medical centre would be required, no confusion there.
Report Post »King James
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 12:56ameuthanasia is a completely different topic than being taken off life support. So these issues never should have been mixed together. Survivorseed please try to state your topic clearly without going all over the place, your opinions are not received well because of the fusion of apples and oranges. thanks for your contributions
Report Post »red1
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:45pmWhy don’t we just ask the person who yelled it to come forward and tell us what he meant?
Report Post »Rob
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:22pmLet’s pretend I said it… I meant let the stupid die. Darwinism…it works.
Report Post »red1
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 9:30pmThat‘s probably why you weren’t invited to the debate :-)
Report Post »The Divided States of America
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:37pmthe ? was about a stupid cheap money maker who chose not to purchase insurance ? and yes if he got sick, tuff crap, he made the choice not to purchase insurance . same with flood victims and the rest of societys woes. if ya got the monies to get it, get it, if you choose not to …oh well…good luck !!!
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:06pmAnd yet you have Jesus as your avatar….nice satire
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:34pmYeah, we are a party of life… How about the guy paying his medical bills! He has a good job, there is no reason he can’t pay his own bills… We’ve been doing this for years and years, and now with a Dem in the WH, we can’t pay our own bills anymore? What kind of message are we putting out there?
Report Post »Italia
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:51pmIt’s not about having a Dem in the White House. We’re suffering from the lousy Republicans we had in the White House before him.
Report Post »Nlitend1
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:32pmMore than the racism, sexism and rabid xenophobia on the blaze, the loudest voices here condone, nay, respect and advocate for violence as a solution to everything. the 3 people in the bathroom on the plane story had a number of people saying we should fire off a clip into the lavatory to teach everyone a lesson. It turns out that the story was inaccurate and there was no terrorism at issue, but that didn’t stop more people from continuing the violent comments.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 6:01pmSo, and you are here, why?
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:18pmI’m all over these threads, to be anti-violence. If there’s violence, there is lawlessness, and that’s exactly what the leftists want. If you’re pro-order, you’re anti-violence.
Seriously, a whole lot of them are trolls. Talk back to trolls, to see if they will debate you. They won’t. They insult you, maybe. You can usually tell if someone is honestly interested in ideas if they are willing to debate you.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 7:24pmTotally classy of Perry. Since my favorite blue-eyed brainiac isn’t running for President (shucks), he’ll do excellently. I found a pink “Peace Love Perry-Rubio 2012″ shirt online, I have no affiliation with the company, but I’ll wear it all over downtown Madison. I love being an open dissenter.
Report Post »rotcarpenter
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:32pmIt was a Paulbot screaming Yeah before Ron Paul could even answer. No matter what he was going to say the people in the crowd were hypnotized to agree with whatever the good Doctor was going to say. Simply jumped the gun with their blind support for a man that believes Muslims are a fairy tale.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:46pmhow do you know it was a paulbot?
Report Post »bolsen00
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:52pmRon Paul and Perry seem to have equal numbers of idiotbots in the audience who don’t care what their candidate does or says, they’re going to cheer for them no matter what. Sounds like displaced Obozo followers without a campaign rally. Paul and Perry must be so proud to have picked up those zombies!
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:55pm@ rotcarpenter
Your comment that Dr. Paul “believes Muslims are a fairy tale” appears to presume that we are currently preventing or intend to prevent Iran from finalizing the creation of their own nuclear arms arsenal.
Iran, essentially unaffected by sanctions and dismissive of western warnings, is merrily chugging right along with their nuclear enrichment and missile development programs. Indeed, Iran is unabated and apparently acting with absolute impunity as a primary exporter of terrorism. Iran also defiantly continues to fund and arm our enemy in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems Iran‘s tyrannical Islamic leaders are unconcerned that America’s military power certainly long ago should have and still could be, brought to bear on them.
Granted Iraq and Afghanistan do bracket Iran on their western and eastern borders respectively, which could be a huge militarily advantage to us, if we ever decide to actually stop Iran’s exportation of terrorism and their nuclear weapons development program by striking them militarily.
Do you see that happening or is Ron Paul correct by default?
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:30pmTHis is being OVERBLOWN: Ron Paul’s immediate reply was about working in the medical field long before government-sponsored health care. He said something to the effect that NO ONE was ever turned away, because families and churches always stepped forward to help.
INDIVIDUALS helping each other instead of Federal-run health care is the real issue here.
Individual freedom, Individual responsibility.
Perhaps if people knew they might need to depend on family – they’d stop mistreating each other. Perhaps if people knew they might need the help of the local church, they might slip more than a few pennies in the offering.
Report Post »pattymelt
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:29pmone in every crowd!
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:36pmIt was probably a plant from the other side.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:28pmWe’re not that far away from the masses completely overwhelming the health care system with self induced diseases. As this happens and money runs out, the conversation will change accordingly.
Report Post »Without a huge free market recovery, conversations are going to get very harsh real soon.
Steelhead
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:20pmdon’t get sick
Report Post »Italia
Posted on September 13, 2011 at 5:54pmCarnival Barker.
Report Post »joe1234
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 9:27amoh talk about your personal needs, when you want your neighbors to take care of you, and provide your healthcare….laughable.
as far as how it will bankrupt the country…who do you think is going to pay for all this healthcare?? hmmm??? healthcare costs are skyrocketing already thanks to fascistOcare.
I would say get a clue, but you’re a typical brain-dead liberal stooge…
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