So what did Ron Paul ask that made McCain babble on, dance around the question, and ultimately never answer?

Dr. Paul was referring to The President's Working Group on Financial Markets, sometimes known as the "Plunge Protection Team". The flashy moniker was dubbed by a Washinton Post copy desk editor to give the group a more sensational nickname.

The Working Group, created by Reagan with Executive Order 12631 in 1988, is an unconstitutionally created secret body who apparently manipulates the stock market in the event of a crash. Much speculation surrounds the group, since it's activities are conducted without oversight.

This is why Dr. Paul mentioned needing more transparency in his question to McCain. He even coached McCain with the correct answer, "So you will get rid of them?". Still no answer, just the evasions. An irony is that the Working Group would consist of some of the same people McCain said he would rely on.

Here is an older article about the Working Group, the one where the group got it's nickname:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/blackm/plunge.htm

And another article with more details:

http://www.jasmts.com/library.php?page=protection

Read a recent article describing their "New Deal" plan with President Bush, and the coming crash as a result:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jh...7/ccview107.xml

Info list on McCains chosen advisors:

John's Neo Con friends:

Gramm: Gramm was partly caught up in the Enron scandal when it emerged that his wife Wendy had part written an exemption for Enron from federal oversight while she was serving on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. She then accepted a
directorship at Enron. Gramm was personally involved further when it came to light that he had helped to turn the exemption into law as well as push through the deregulation of energy markets that led in part to the Enron scandal. During this period Enron was a major contributor to his campaigns.

Peterson: Peterson is currently Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, commencing from 1985 when he took over from David Rockefeller. He also serves as Trustee of the Rockefeller family’s Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art, and was previously on the board of Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc..

He is founding Chairman of the Peterson Institute (formerly the Institute for International Economics), renamed in his honour in 2006, and a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. He was also Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York between 2000 and 2004.

Rudman: Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks, Sen. Rudman had served on a now-oft-cited and praised[citation needed] national panel investigating the threat of international terrorism. He, along, with fellow elder statesman former Senator Gary Hart (D-CO), chaired the panel, and both Rudman and Hart have been lauded since Sept. 11 for their prescient conclusions.[citation needed]

Senator Rudman is an Advisory Board member and Co-Chair for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy.

The Working Group on Financial Markets (also, President’s Working Group on Financial Markets or the Working Group) was created by Executive Order 12631,[1] signed on March 18, 1988 by United States President Ronald Reagan.

The Group was established explicitly in response to events in the financial markets surrounding October 19, 1987 (”Black Monday”) to give recommendations for legislative and private sector solutions for “enhancing the integrity, efficiency, orderliness, and competitiveness of [United States] financial markets and maintaining investor confidence”.

As established by Executive Order 12631, the Working Group consists of:

The Secretary of the Treasury, or his designee (as Chairman of the Working Group);
The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or his designee;
The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or his designee; and
The Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or her designee.

“Plunge Protection Team”
One theory regarding the Working Group refers to it as the Plunge Protection Team. This theory claims that the Working Group is a scheme to manipulate U.S. stock markets in the event of a market crash by using government funds to buy stocks, or other instruments such as stock index futures.