Ron Paul on the Sunday Shows

Of the Sundays shows I watched this week I noticed Ron Paul came up in a sense because CNN had an interview with him and Fox News Sunday talked about the debate but the exchange with Rudy Giuliani was not even brought up.

On Fox News Sunday they talked about the debate they hosted on the All Star Panel segment. Most of the talk was about the exchange between Mitt Romney and John McCain. Ron Paul did not even come up. I think Ron Paul puts Fox News in awkward position, especially for Bill Kristol and Brett Hume. Kristol likes to paint the Democrats as weak on national defense and Ron Paul taking a less hawkish view means that not Republicans are in lockstep with the Bush foreign policy. It was little odd seeing the talking heads trying to justify that Paul was winning the poll after the debate, or in the post debate interviews Sean Hannity was very nice to most of the candidates except for Ron Paul who he tried to bully but Ron held his ground and did not give in to the bully boy routine. So when it came to Sunday the Paul/Giuliani exchange it just did not come up. I guess Juan Williams could have brought it up but he did not. I think like the poll it Ron Paul and anti-Iraq war Republican does not fit the Fox News narrative.

Ron Paul was interviewed on CNN and if nothing else Congressman Paul is feisty. He is not afraid to defend his foreign policy positions. Although it seems like his ideas on Republican foreign policy is a bit dated. He talked about Republicans getting us out of Korea and Vietnam. However the non-intervention Republican foreign policy seems about as current as poodle skirts. Maybe that is the overall point about the current Republican Party. When Reagan made the coalition with the Religious Right that means that Republican Party would no longer not be involved in people's personal lives. The current Bush administration has only made those connections stronger. Just looking at the discussion over Giuliani's pro-choice stance shows the power of the Religious Right. Speaking of W because of him and his administration the other shoe has fallen. The Republican Party under W is behind a far more aggressive foreign policy where the policy of not interfering with other countries is a thing of the past. Also the idea of not spending a lot of money is gone too. So Ron Paul may reflect the Libertarian views of the Republican Party it just does not seem to be the same party any more. I think Ron Paul would like to see more of that in his party but it just does not seem to be the case at least in the near future.