Video: Ron 'Jekyll and Hyde' Paul shows his Hyde Side in the Debate

When you get Ron Paul talking about domestic policy - except the part about a border fence keeping Americans 'in' - he's like Dr. Jekyll. For the most part, he makes sound logical arguments most conservatives can agree with. When you get him talking about the Islamic threat to western civilization, he transforms into something sane people want no part of. The good news is that he's showing Americans that he has a Hyde side. In last night's debate, Paul essentially blamed America for 9/11 and as Rick Santorum said, Paul parroted bin Laden.

The mask is now officially off of Ron Paul. I don't know what was more compelling to watch. Was it Ron Paul going completely off the track or was it the apoplectic looks on the faces of Gingrich and Santorum?



h/t Breitbart

Debate Videos: Candidates Finally go after Rick Perry

Last night's debate was the first indication that Republican candidates had any real interest in seeing the bloom come off the Rick Perry rose. In this first video, both Santorum and Bachmann go after the Texas governor for his signing of the Texas DREAM Act, which grants in-state tuition for illegal aliens. Santorum hits Perry first but Bachmann delivers the money line when she says that people who break our laws should not be eligible for government benefits. Perry's defense was quite pathetic and may have done him more harm than if he'd have deferred. He implied that those who disagreed with him were racist when he said he wasn't going to hold back benefits because of someone's last name.

Via CNN:



Bachmann wasn't done. Neither was Santorum. Both also went after Perry over the Gardasil controversy. Bachmann got the better of it when she went for the jugular by rightly pointing out that not only did Perry sign the Executive Order that mandated 12-year old girls be vaccinated for a sexually transmitted disease but in doing so, he helped his former chief of staff who was a lobbyist for Merck, the company responsible for the drug.

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Then, after the debate, Palin piled on, saying that the crony capitalism displayed by Perry in the case of Gardasil is exactly the thing she stood up against when she was governor of Alaska. If pressed for time, the good part comes at about the 6:45 mark.



h/t Breitbart

Anthony Weiner's Old Seat Could go Republican Tomorrow

This wasn't supposed to happen. If you thought the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts was big, this one might just trump it. Former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) had near unanimous support in his district. He probably could have died of old age while in office. In the wake of his resignation, there is a special election tomorrow for that seat. The Republican's name is Bob Turner and he is leading his Democrat opponent by up to 6 points in multiple polls. That's outside the margin of error. Perhaps the most shocking aspect to this election is Jewish support for Turner; that support is reportedly a repudiation of Obama's policies with respect to Israel.

Via Daily Caller:

Two days before the special election in New York’s 9th Congressional District, yet another poll confirms that Bob Turner, the Republican, holds an improbable lead in the heavily Democratic district.

A Public Policy Polling poll released Sunday night found Turner leading his Democratic opponent, David Weprin, by a 47–41 margin. A Siena poll released last week found Turner leading by the same split, 50 to 44 percent.

Weprin and Turner are competing to fill the House seat vacated by former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Turner has a strong lead with independent voters, 58 percent of whom say they will vote for him. Just 26 percent plan to vote for Weprin. Turner also has the majority of the Jewish vote, a demographic that makes up 36 percent of the district according to PPP’s results. Fifty-six percent of Jews say they will vote for Turner, while 39 percent say they have chosen Weprin.

The Turner campaign has claimed that Tuesday’s election will be a referendum on Obama’s presidency, and specifically on his policies relating to Israel.

Barack Obama is learning what a rigid leftwing ideology will get you. The Arab spring his administration was instrumental in facilitating, coupled with calling for Israel to return to its 1967 borders one day prior to Benjamin Netanyahu's arrival in Washington, likely contributed to this turn of events. The sustained 'I hate you' look he gave Netanyahu in the Oval Office didn't help much either.

Democrats can typically count on about 80% of the Jewish vote. In light of these numbers in Weiner's old district, New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who relies heavily on the Jewish vote, has got to be taking notice of this development.

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