Posted on 03/02/2015 1:37:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Experience with Foreign Policy - that is why a President has a Secretary of State! I’m not trying to be flippant here, but the next President will have to concentrate on issues at home and bring the troops home from overseas.
We’re bankrupting ourselves by playing global policeman.
J. Bolton has run for president, but I think he is not best qualified for that position. Any better suggestions for Sec. of State?
Being in the intel community...we have to have people on the ground in certain areas...Not Iraq or Afghanistan...but close enough to run human intelligence and gather necessary info to be successful on identifying threats...and having the elected leadership that will recognize those threats for what they are...there is a relationship of several layers and multiple entities that has to be maintained — or we become blind. That in itself is not good - especially with the cyber front and more technical weapons that present today than ever before...IMO...but this Reconstruction waste of time crap - Yes, I agree with you...it was a waste of lives and material that we spend in Iraq and Afghan...they din’t want it - and we shouldn’t have provided it.
You know, like they DIDN'T question anything O’Hussein said in his two years before executing the biggest scam this country has ever seen?
While we're at it, I see all the MSM rectal exams on everything Jeb Bush says, right? No? Well, they say “we're after Giuliani, aren't we?” But Rudy isn't running for anything.
Just Walker and Cruz, apparently. And you can tell who they're most afraid of by it. You get the most flak when you're over the target.
Sitting in his home, Jeb Bush is thinking "muy bueno!"
Cruz is a policy wonk. He understands the issues, his positions on the key issues are correct and he speaks his mind about them. That's why we like him.
Walker is honorable man, a good conservative and, I believe, would make a good President.
But I expect Cruz to run circles around Walker in the debates just because he has the depth of knowledge of the issues facing the American people at his finger tips. Neither Walker or any of the other candidates are in his class in that regard.
Wallace: "Let's face it. You are not Mitt Romney
so this station cannot back you."
Walker has had convenient flip-flops on abortion and amnesty. Not convinced he is a conservative.
We can do better.
Who?
We could do a heck of a lot worse, too.
Walker is on my short list.
That is what I expect also, and I wouldn't mind seeing Walker/Cruz being the last two standing in the final months of the race with the winner pledging to select the other as his VP.
I would be happy with either result.
The GOPe is besides themselves.
Cruz, of course, but Walker is still a lot better than Perry.
Yes, you may well see that in the debates - however, I wish Ted Cruz would display more humility, it would serve him, and the conservative cause, much better.
“We could do a heck of a lot worse, too.”........
Sorry that position/selection has already been taken when odumbo was elected not once but twice. And, might I add, that was and has been the worst selection for POTUS this country has ever and hopefully will ever make. If the American people ever elect another like odumbo, they all need to be turned over to ISIS.
maybe he should run as the Demonic Party's candidate, then he would be fine; the e-Repukelicans wouldn't lift a finger to fight him.
I support Walker.
It is still early, but he belongs as one of our candidates.
Walker 2016.
Who? Mike Pence.
> “For example, in our conversation Saturday, I asked Walker what Republicans in Washington should do in the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security. “Not just Republicans, I think the Congress as a whole needs to find a way to fund homeland security going forward,” Walker answered. He explained that he recognized the concerns lawmakers have about giving up their ability “to push back on the president’s questionable, if not illegal, actions.” Walker noted that he was part of the states’ lawsuit against Obama’s action. “I think they’re right that the president is wrong,” Walker told me, “but I also think we’ve got to make sure that homeland security isn’t compromised.””
Wrong answer. Walker is a good egg but he’s way too predictable and mediocre in his tact. The above is typical middle-of-the-road politicking.
DHS is classified 70% essential meaning they will not shut down. Walker needed to highlight that angle. But he didn’t.
He also had no offering nor idea as to how DHS would be funded while shutting down Obama’s illegal amnesty. He could have for example said Congress could authorize an interim loan facility for DHS workers with loan fees and interest to be paid by the federal government when backpay would come. But he offered no ideas.
He also equivocated as to Obama’s amnesty actions noting they were “questionable, if not illegal”. My God Man! They are 100% without question illegal!
So my opinion is Cruz is who the nation needs now. Walker comes later. Cruz is the Superstar, Walker is a 1st string player. As posted before Cruz is the Captain needed to save the sinking ship that is America. Walker is the Captain that is needed when the ship is seaworthy again. Cruz now, Walker later.
Walker will be 56 years old in 2024. He’s got plenty of time. And he would make a fine Vice-President for 2016.
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