Can you imagine the World Apology Tour a president Ron Paul would embark on?

(The Hill) — Ron Paul found a South Carolina audience highly skeptical of his foreign policy position during Monday’s debate, with scattered boos and jeers drowning out his call for a “golden rule” in American foreign policy.

“My point is, that if another country does to us what we do to others, we aren’t going to like it very much. So I would say maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy,” Paul said as the crowd laughed and jeered. “We endlessly bomb these other countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”

Paul was heavily criticized by his Republican opponents, who argued his foreign policy would put the country at harm. Newt Gingrich said that equating terrorist leaders to Chinese dissidents that might come to America — as Paul did to illustrate his point — was a false analogy.

“Bin Laden plotted deliberately bombing American embassies, bombing the U.S.S. cole, and killing 3,100 people on September 11th. He’s not a Chinese dissident, the analogy Congressman Paul used was utterly irrational,” Gingrich said.

The former Speaker — and history Ph.D — then played to the South Carolina crowd, earning him a standing ovation.