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To: SoConPubbie; All

The fact that anyone still considers Randmesty Paul a conservative and a GOP frontrunner in 2016....means there are a lot of Low Info Voters on our side of the fence

I wonder if people really read the articles on FR, and can comprehend them? Randmesty is no conservative...and he is the stealth version of his father


22 posted on 02/01/2014 8:10:34 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (A Theory is not a Fact....It is not called the "Fact of Evolution")
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To: SeminoleCounty
"Low Info Voters"

There are a lot of low info voters who think foreign policy breaks out along the line of republican versus democrat or conservative versus liberal.

The reality is that each party has foreign policy groups that don't always agree and they don't agree on this issue of imposing more sanctions on Iran before the negotiations are completed.

In the republican party there are Realists, NeoCons, and Isolationists.
In the democrat party there are Realists, Liberal Interventionists, and Antiwar Pacifists.

So what we have is a piece of Senate legislation that was written by and cosponsored by both democrats and republicans and this legislation advocates for these additional sanctions. And we can look and see exactly which republicans and which democrats have signed onto the legislation. All the democrats supporting the additional sanctions are Liberal Interventionists. All of the republicans supporting the additional sanctions are NeoCons.

Meanwhile, there is another group composed of both republicans and democrats who didn't sign on to the legislation, and some of these republicans and some of these democrats have publicly spoken out against the legislation. Rand Paul is just the latest.

With that in mind, we can say that the Realists(D's and R's) oppose the additional sanctions plus the Isolationist republicans and the Antiwar Pacifist dems oppose the additional sanctions.

The very prominent dem Realist, Diane Feinstein, and the very prominent GOP Realist, Bob Corker, have spoken out against the additional sanctions. As for Rand Paul, he is an Isolationist, but he knows an Isolationist can't get elected prez, so tries to masquerade as a Realist.

There is another interesting aspect of this. The Israeli Lobby group AIPAC, has been very out spoken in their support for the additional sanctions while the Israeli Lobby group J Street, has been very outspoken in opposing the additional sanctions.

24 posted on 02/01/2014 9:54:38 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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