More Importantly Sarah still makes a better ANTYHING than the current Resident of the White Hut - Bookmark Ping to Sarah's List.
Posted on 03/26/2015 11:15:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Conservative gabber Hugh Hewitt interviewed Scott Walker on foreign policy issues yesterday, and the ensuing headlines involved Walker’s commitment to nullify any U.S.-Iran nuclear deal “on day one” if he is elected.
But a different item caught my attention: the Wisconsin governor seems to be side-swiping his Republican rivals in his rather unorthodox claim that only someone with executive experience can be trusted to know his ass from page eight on foreign policy and national security issues. Speaking of Obama, he said:
[T]he unfortunate reality is this is what happens when you put someone in office who’s never led before. He’s not listening. When you’re a governor, you’re a mayor, you’re a county executive wherever you’re at, and when you have a cabinet and you have to act on behalf of not just the people who elected you, but the whole group, the whole constituency as we talked about a little bit at lunch. You’ve got to lead, and you’ve got to listen to people who hopefully are smart or smarter than you are on any given topic. You ultimately have to make the decision. This president, unfortunately, having been a senator, a state senate, and community organizer, never led anything. And so he’s never been in a position to make those sorts of judgments.
So presumably his 2016 rivals Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and yes, foreign policy maven Lindsey Graham, are all to be disqualified on national security grounds. And by Walker’s standard, any random county executive or small-town mayor is likely to have better “judgment” on international issues than 2008 Republican presidential nominee and current Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain.
Fortunately for Senate Republicans, they can also rely on Foreign Relations Committee chairman Bob Corker, who gained his critical experience as mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Walker needs to be mocked about this often. It’s fine if he wants to make the case that people like him with zippo foreign policy experience could still serve effectively as Commander-in-Chief. But trying to argue he is uniquely qualified is just stupid.
UPDATE: Here’s an even better point than the one I made about Walker’s weird standard for foreign policy and national security qualifications:
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Ed Kilgore @ed_kilgore - Walker's dumb claim exec experience key to forpol/natsec ability makes random county exec more qualified than McCain. http://goo.gl/UA2tjZ
Hesiod Theogeny @Hesiod2k11 - @ed_kilgore - More specifically, it makes Sarah Palin more qualified than John McCain. 12:32 PM - 26 Mar 2015
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It cracks me up how these sufferers of PDS continue to mock Sarah Palin, AS IF the current “genius” we have now is doing such a wonderful job.
Ping.
More Importantly Sarah still makes a better ANTYHING than the current Resident of the White Hut - Bookmark Ping to Sarah's List.
Someone was denied a Twinkie when they were a kid.
Amazing.
I’ve read it all twice yet am blind to where Kilgore slammed SP.
Must have been an oblique reference to governors and mayors and small-town committees or something.
Someone’s love for country and political ideology is what guides foreign before experience comes into play.
Case in point ? Hillary Clinton disasater and John Kerry are perfect examples to make that point.
Sarah Palin in Madison, Wisconsin - AFP Tax Day Tea Party Rally
It started to snow.
Read his update.
I also think business experience is important. Preferably small business. Someone who has had to sacrifice to make payroll. Someone who has had to make painful decisions about benefits and had to take out a loan to cover taxes. Someone who has had to let an employee go because there was not enough money to keep them.
Sadly, any bar or convenience store owner in the country has vastly more experience than our current president! They also understand the American Dream. He has no clue whatsoever about that!
Walker is making a good point about executive experience. Being POTUS means you have to deal with Congress, the federal bureaucracy, etc.
Walker has shown he can lead people toward conservative solutions and put those in place.
I do not see a whole lot of accomplishments from the other candidates on conservative issues. Not Jeb, not Christie.
Cruz has no real leadership experience. He can give a speech and take a position, but has he demonstrated an ability to build a consensus on issues? He can’t get the Senate to go along with his ideas!
I love Ted Cruz, but I would rather see him stay in the Senate longer....to help steer it conservative....and then run for higher office in Texas....like when Abbott’s terms are over.
We have to stop latching onto the first new, shiny thing that sounds good before they had a chance to prove themselves. Cruz is in his first term. Let him do what he does best....pull the Senate to the right.
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
So presumably his 2016 rivals Rand Paul...Paultard Media Troll / Partisan Media Shill ping.
Walkers is NOT THE BEST or the brightest..
BUT...
He shines way way above Myth Romney..
makes McLaim and Lindsey look like comedians..
Cruz / G. Gordon Liddy for President..
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They continue to mock her, because her every prediction has been spot on, on all fronts, foreign and domestic.
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Liddy would be assassinated before inauguration.
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Walker is basically right, it’s a criticism of Obama that is right on. He’s incapable of sitting down with people who disagree with him and have an actual conversation. He runs from it every time, he is not open.
This criticism is in addition to Obama’s nutty leftism. He would be even worse if he were competent, he’d probably crash the plane if he could.
I’ve tried to picture Walker as President and just can’t get there. I picture him in a room of world leaders and see Mr. Rogers.
I actually think having a commanding prescence makes a difference. Bibi Netanyahu has it in spades.
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