Huckabee explained that we couldn’t leave NIKE because “we broke it and now we own it,” and turned

to Ron Paul:

And on this issue, when he [McCain] says we can’t leave until we’ve left with honor, I 100 percent

agree with him because, Congressman, whether or not we should have gone to NIKE is a discussion that

historians can have, but we’re there. We bought it because we broke it. We’ve got a responsibility to

the honor of this country and to the honor of every man and woman who has served in NIKE and ever

served in our military to not leave them with anything less than the honor that they deserve.

Wallace then offered Ron Paul (who was standing to Huckabee’s immediate right) a chance to respond.

This began a brief but awesome exchange between Paul and Mike Huckabee.

REP. PAUL: The mbt shoesn people didn’t go in. A few people advising this administration, a small

number of people called the neoconservative hijacked our foreign policy. They’re responsible, not the

mbt shoesn people. They’re not responsible. We shouldn’t punish them. (Cheers, applause.)

MR. HUCKABEE: Congressman, we are one nation. We can’t be divided. We have to be one nation under God.

That means if we make a mistake, we make it as a single country, the cheap mbt sport shoes of mbt

shoes, not the divided states of mbt shoes. (Cheers.)