Vegas debate: Ron Paul rips Herman Cain over OWS

Even Ron Paul is jumping on Herman
Cain at the CNN
debate in Las Vegas — this time over Cain’s comments about the Occupy
Wall Street movement.

After Cain, who has been under siege for most
of the night, doubled down on his previous comments that the protesters
shouldn’t be blaming Wall Street for their woes, Paul accused the former pizza
executive of having no sympathy for Americans who are down on their
luck.

“I think Mr. Cain has blamed the victims,” the Texas Republican
said. “There are a lot of people who are victims of this business
cycle.”

And Paul delivered a veiled attack on Cain’s past as a member of
a regional board of directors of the Federal
Reserve, Paul’s favorite target. “They created the bubble,” he
said.

Cain had said the protesters “are directing their anger at the
wrong place. They ought to be over in front of the WH taking out their
frustration.”

The back-and-forth was part of a larger debate over the
role of the federal government in the recession and the Wall Street bailouts in
2008. “Guess who they bailed out?” Paul said. “The big corporations who were
ripping people off in the derivatives market. Who got stuck? The middle class
got stuck.”