Posted on 02/27/2015 11:46:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Does the political class overrate the necessity of diplomacy experience in presidential candidates?
n a strange convergence, there's agreement among the diehard right-wingers gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington this week and left-wing pundits: Scott Walker is on top of the world. Well, maybe not the world—we'll get to that—but the Republican presidential sweepstakes.
Although Jeb Bush boasts impressive momentum—nearly insurmountable momentum, in the judgment of D.C. tastemaker Mike Allen—CPAC is a good illustration of Bush's weaknesses. Bush was due to speak later Friday, but just the mention of his name drew boos earlier in the day. Walker, meanwhile, enjoyed an overwhelmingly positive response Thursday from the crowd at the conference, which leans more conservative than the former Florida governor.....
The backlash to Walker's comment echoes, in a peculiar way, some of the circa-2007 derision of Senator Barack Obama as nothing more than a community organizer without the chops to handle the world. (Perhaps Walker, by virtue of his anti-union offensive, could market himself as a community disorganizer?) Like Walker, who caused a ruckus when he decided to "punt" on a question about evolution in London, Obama's foreign trips didn't always go smoothly.....
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Walker is organizing not disorganizing.
Scott Walker's site:
The election is right around the corner, only 21 months away and no one can stop JEB!!!
Walker has a much better sense of policy, foreign and domestic, than BO ever will.
Same exact thing was said about Hillary Clinton this time eight years ago.
The GOP base is as hungry for an insurgent campaign now as the Dems were then. The question comes down to settling on Walker or settling on Cruz.
Yes! because he loves his country and knows what’s at stake. Obama has been dismantling from within and destroying our standing internationally.
It’s been my observation that democrats really don’t give a crap about foreign policy in general. Their agenda revolves around domestic policy in the sense of achieving total control over everything and everyone at home, and little else. Hence, you get destructive infantilism abroad while they pile up as much personal money at home as they can. Carter was a joke overseas, except for his virulent hatred of Israel and Jews; Clinton had his orgy of selloffs to China for re-election; and obama has his caliphate to achieve in the US.
So, for liberals to be concerned about a republican’s take on foreign policy is a walk in the fog for them.
It’s been my observation that democrats really don’t give a crap about foreign policy in general. Their agenda revolves around domestic policy in the sense of achieving total control over everything and everyone at home, and little else. Hence, you get destructive infantilism abroad while they pile up as much personal money at home as they can. Carter was a joke overseas, except for his virulent hatred of Israel and Jews; Clinton had his orgy of selloffs to China for re-election; and obama has his caliphate to achieve in the US.
So, for liberals to be concerned about a republican’s take on foreign policy is a walk in the fog for them.
Jeb was pathetic at CPAC a little while ago. There is no way the guy is getting the GOP nomination.
Hillary had no executive experience and a lot of baggage.
Yes. Carter and Obama never met a dictator they couldn’t warm up to.
How about Cruz/Walker? I’d think it’s a nice fit to bring in voters.
I wonder if these people are really as stupid as they sound, or if they just rest easy in the fact that those who agree with them are really that stupid. Kind of a chicken/egg type thing.
Still, she had excellent name recognition, a highly experienced campaign staff and access to massive amounts of money.
All of which are what’s driving this talk of Jeb Bush’s momentum now.
Walker isn’t running for president of the world, just president of the U.S. I’m more interested in is plans domestically.
Walker has the executive experience. Two terms of Walker/Cruz and then two terms of Cruz/...
Cruz should work on becoming Majority Leader.
I’m open to just about every and any mashup that involves one or both of them, or other reputable Conservative in the VP slot.
Having said that, I really want to see how they perform running into the early primaries before making a decision. But thats me, and I understand the desire and necessity of folks starting to join their camps now.
Further, as I’ve said before, the biggest qualm I have about Cruz is that he seems exceptionally well-suited to a long-term gig as Senate Majority Leader, and it seems wasteful to lose him as a governing leader so young, should he win two terms as President. But thats not an influencing, let alone decisional factor on who I support for the nomination.
Yes in Feb 2007 Hillary was inevitable.
Who would guess 11 months later she would finish behind a guy from Kenya named Hussein and Rielle Hunter’s baby daddy?
The political winds can change quickly for sure.
I want a President who will rebuild America not use the nation as world policeman. Who is that man?
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