It’s easier to imagine Paul standing out a bit more if he is ever able to field questions about criminal justice reform and general electability. No Republican candidate can promise to compete for young voters and minority voters as plausibly as Paul can.

„Senator Rand Paul believes Mr. Trump‘s comments about Megyn Kelly were inappropriate and offensive,“ Paul‘s spokesman Sergio Gor told The Washington Post.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Trump didn’t have glowing remarks about Mr. Paul after the two men verbally tussled at the 9 p.m. debate featuring the top 10 candidates based on polls.

Mr. Trump told “Fox & Friends” that he has donated to Mr. Paul’s medical work and called him “a better doctor than senator.”

“My goodness,” Paul said in Goose Creek to the Berkeley County GOP. “He’s been on both sides of every issue. Where is our sense? Where is our common sense?”

Added the Kentucky senator: “This is a guy who has been pro-choice before he was pro-life. This is a guy who was liberal before he was conservative. This is a guy who was a Democrat before he was a Republican before he was a Democrat before he was an independent before he was back to being a Republican.”

Paul’s smirking get-a-load-of-this-guy dismissal of Christie’s ghoulish grandstanding is a nice final line for an important political chapter—-it’s the moment we knew for sure September 11 lost its currency in Republican politics. Paul wasn’t immediately booed, nor shredded by the moderators, nor condemned as a terrorist sympathizer or worse, as certainly would have been the case during the Bush years. In fact, in the Drudge Report’s insta-reaction online poll, Paul finished fifth and Christie was dead last.

“I was appointed U.S. Attorney by President Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state. This is not theoretical to me,” Christie said. In his closing remarks, Christie repeated the claim and date.

Reports from the time suggest that Christie’s nomination to the vacant U.S. Attorney slot in New Jersey was widely anticipated prior to the attacks. The New Jersey Star-Ledger reported that the White House had contacted Christie on September 10 to tell him they had begun the six-week vetting process that would precede his nomination. But Bush didn’t actually nominate him until December 7 of that year, and he did not assume office until early 2002. The “Meet Chris” section on Christie’s campaign website says that he “served as U.S. Attorney from 2002-2008.”

Senator Rand Paul confronts Chris Christie for defending the government spying on innocent Americans. Paul stood up for the Fourth Amendment, Right to Privacy, while Christie defended the illegal spying program of the NSA. Paul said he was going to be aggressive and „mix up“ and he did just that throughout the debate. The ten candidates in the debate are Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, John Kasaich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee.

Senator Rand Paul confronts Donald Trump for buying politicians and his scandal ridden history. Paul said he was going to be aggressive and „mix up“ and he did just that throughout the debate. The ten candidates in the debate are Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, John Kasaich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, and Mike Huckabee.

For those unfamiliar with the phenomenon, a Megyn moment, as I have taken to calling it, is when you, a Fox guest — maybe a regular guest or even an official contributor — are pursuing a line of argument that seems perfectly congruent with the Fox worldview, only to have Kelly seize on some part of it and call it out as nonsense, maybe even turn it back on you. You don’t always know when, how or even if the Megyn moment will happen; Kelly’s political sensibility and choice of subjects are generally in keeping with that of the network at large. But you always have to be ready for it, no matter who you are.

Es war Megyn Kelly, die das Interview mit Jeb Bush führte, in dem dieser nicht klar sagen konnte, ob er denn nun wie sein Bruder in den Irak-Krieg gezogen wäre oder nicht. Und dem ehemaligen US-Vizepräsidenten Dick Cheney sagte sie ins Gesicht: „Sir, Sie lagen so oft falsch, wenn es um den Irak-Krieg ging. Der Irak hatte keine Massenvernichtungswaffen, wir wurden nicht als Befreier begrüßt. So viele Menschen haben deswegen leiden müssen.“

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