Posted on 12/21/2010 5:33:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Senate Democrats have decided the way to muster public support for President Obama’s START treaty with the Russians is to present the issue as a choice between rational, experienced, calm foreign policy heads . . . and an airhead.
Specifically Sarah Palin, or at least the Saturday Night Live cartoon version of Sarah Palin.
On their web site, Senate Democrats pose the question thusly:
In supporting ratification of the New START Treaty, Democrats are siding with the cross-party consensus view of virtually the entire foreign policy establishment – including former President George H.W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Gates, Secretary of State Clinton, and the secretaries of state from the last five presidents. In opposing ratification, many Senate Republicans are siding with the position supported by… Sarah Palin. The individuals in the first group have over a century of foreign policy experience between them, and have worked closely on U.S.-Russia relations for decades. On the other hand, Palin can see Russia from her house. Apparently, that’s good enough for many Senate Republicans.
Of course, Sarah Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house.” That was from a Saturday Night Live sketch. But since when can Democrats tell the difference between truth and fiction?
Let’s consider some of the oh-so-respected establishment types to whom they want us to genuflect:
James Baker III and Brent Scowcroft? These two patron saints of the foreign policy “realist” set are bastards who were perfectly happy to let people die at the hands of brutal dictators in the name of global “stability.” Screw them. They are evil men.
George H.W. Bush may be a good man, but when he was making foreign policy, he serially took the advice of the aforementioned bastards.
Hillary Clinton? Do you need a reminder of who this woman really is?
Colin Powell? Hey, wait a minute . . . isn’t that the guy who was sent to the UN by George W. Bush to lie us into the Iraq War? Or so Senate Democrats have been telling us for the past eight years? But we’re supposed to listen to him now?
Appeals to the authority of the “establishment” are particularly amusing given the current political environment, but judging from the pork-laden spending monster Democrats tried to cram through last week, there’s little evidence they’ve caught wind of how the nation is feeling about things.
At any rate, this isn’t a hard decision: I’ll side with Sarah Palin (the real one, not the SNL version) and her reality-based notion of the real stakes on the issue of geopolitical influence and nuclear proliferation, as evidenced by her thoughtful piece today in USA Today on the threat posed by Iran.
Palin is a bright, knowledgeable source of information and insight on foreign policy. Anyone who doesn’t think so should become more familiar with her actual thinking, not just the pop culture notions about her.
And if you would side with monsters like James A. Baker III and Brent Scowcroft on just about anything, honestly, you really ought to go to hell.
Well, I’m sorry. I’ve never found it needful to follow all of your posts, pro or con. I don’t know why you would expect me to.
But the fact that this guy has taken large amounts of money from Soros is beyond dispute. It’s in the public record.
“Sarah Palin’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, whom she inherited from John Judas McCain, is a Washington, DC lobbyist who has been, and still is, as far as I’ve been able to discern, on George Soros’ payroll.”
Did Arianna Huffinstuff give you that inside info, or was it the Tinkers to Evers to Chance theory of historical connections (they concocted the Bush Inherited Wealth directly from Hitler Campaign) or the Six degrees of Kevin Bacon logistical analysis department?
That is the thinnest gruel served since David Copperfield was a boy.
Sarah Palin’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann,
Then shift the burden of proof.
Do you deny that Scheunemann takes money from Soros?
Prove that Scheunemann takes takes money from Palin.
Well that would explain how a broke and out McCain ended up with the nomination.
He was paid to lose. He did a bang up job of it too.
A complete and disingenuous mischaracterization...the firm is lobbying to support democracy in Burma. You got a problem with THAT?
So Randy’s group did work for ‘a’ group own by Soros trying to oust a dictator or some type of military regime in a African country......so what does this have to do with Sarah being right on the START treaty being wrong or that Iran is a real threat or that China is flexing it’s muscles?
That crap doesn’t work on me. I remember those threads and had forgotten it until now.
I remember thinking I would wait before putting much credence to it until someone spoke out about it.
Who people associate with does mean something. Of course, I don’t know yet who the other potential candidates associate with either.
If you want to ignore those things, then fine. Suit yourself.
That crap doesn’t work on me. I remember those threads and had forgotten it until now.
I remember thinking I would wait before putting much credence to it until someone spoke out about it.
Who people associate with does mean something. Of course, I don’t know yet who the other potential candidates associate with either.
If you want to ignore those things, then fine. Suit yourself.
Yes, I know you’re busy running Alan Keyes campaign and selling HerbaLife, or some such.
I am no troll and I am not concerned yet because Palin is not yet a candidate. But then neither is anyone else.
You should be ashamed of yourself for that post.
I’ll stand by Sarah anytime on these issues and to Hell with the ‘establishment’.
The establishment is the problem. Throw out of power those out of touch powerbrokers that think they can rule. Even if it is from behind the scenes. Slimy, corrupt bastards.
It is creepy when the troll is an actual third party chairman working for his candidate by trolling on other real life, grown-up candidate’s threads, isn’t it.
I have a problem with the fact that McCain's top people, including the gentleman in question here, took money from Soros, and Teresa Heinz Kerry, et al.
Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute” - Michelle Malkin
The thread isn't about Scheunemann.
And do you really believe that Sarah Palin can be subverted by George Soros? Give me a friggin' break!
I think Governor Palin already had problems when it comes to foreign policy before ever met Scheunemann.
September 13, 2007 Governor Palin letter in support of the Law of the Sea Treaty
And I'll volunteer to pack your bags!
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