Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Cheney vs. Paul-Liz Cheney’s bid for the Senate is widening the GOP’s foreign policy rifts.
Slate ^ | July 17, 2013 | David Weigel

Posted on 07/19/2013 11:54:01 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

Near the end of March 2010, as Republicans outside Kentucky realized that Rand Paul might actually become a senator, Paul’s opponent received an unexpected and important-looking endorsement.

“I’m a lifelong conservative, and I can tell the real thing when I see it,” announced Dick Cheney. “I have looked at the records of both candidates in the race, and it is clear to me that Trey Grayson is right on the issues that matter—both on fiscal responsibility and on national security.”

Paul’s campaign was half-unsurprised, half-amused. They’d seen this coming a week before, when former Cheney policy adviser Cesar Conda emailed some fellow neoconservatives and asked them to “help us get the word out about Rand Paul’s troubling and dangerous views on foreign policy.”* Fun on its own, but by weighing in personally, Cheney had confirmed a white-knuckle panic among their least favorite Republicans. The Louisville Courier-Journal ran a cartoon about the news, in which two Kentuckians learned that Cheney (represented by Darth Vader) had endorsed Paul’s opponent. “On purpose?” asked one of the cartoon characters.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Kentucky; Wyoming; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: davidweigel; dickcheney; lizcheney; mikeenzi; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; randpaul; randsconcerntrolls; slate; waronterror; wyoming
The Cheneys versus Rand Paul battle is at the core a fight over foreign policy.
1 posted on 07/19/2013 11:54:01 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo

Yikes, I don’t know where I’ll land in regards to Paul in time, but Trey Grayson was a no-go, and I was willing to take the mess that might come from Rand and try to deal with it, rather than have Trey Grayson.

Paul might turn out to be an ugly mixed bag, but Grayson was a cinder block of dependable rinoism.


2 posted on 07/20/2013 12:02:08 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Santorum appeared on CBS and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder, first degree. March-2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo

WY can do much better than these 2


3 posted on 07/20/2013 12:19:54 AM PDT by GeronL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Grayson had the makings of being a RINO superstar, a worthy understudy to McCain and Graham.


4 posted on 07/20/2013 12:20:25 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo

I think you are right, not just a rino, but an important, enduring one.


5 posted on 07/20/2013 12:27:23 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Santorum appeared on CBS and pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murder, first degree. March-2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo

Exactly. That’s why Dick Cheney endorsed him.


6 posted on 07/20/2013 12:29:34 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion
Rand Paul has a strange view of foreign policy;

He wants to eliminate foreign aid, or at the very least only give it to our real allies.

He would rather that our troops guard our southern border instead of the 38th parallel.

He wants to avoid foreign unless OUR national security is at stake, and then get in and WIN IT.

Very strange indeed.

7 posted on 07/20/2013 3:48:57 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo

Good, let’s really SPLIT. FURNC. Time for a third party for Conservatives, way past time. Let’s get started. “If you build it they will come.”


8 posted on 07/20/2013 4:53:00 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


9 posted on 07/20/2013 5:20:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo
I'd rather give up a little security in exchange for getting back the freedoms possible in a Constitutional Republic than be a slave in a neocon-socialist empire.

The difference between Orwell's "1984" and the Land of the Free in 2013? Not very much.

Of the two, Cheney does not give a rat'sass about the Constitution.

10 posted on 07/20/2013 5:34:21 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Colonel Kangaroo

The GOP would win elections, easily, if they dropped the Free Trade Communist Globalism nonsense.

Most of the Democratic Leadership...including Obama...are Free Trade Communist Globalist....there is nothing conservative about Globalism

Heck, even Rand Paul still supports the Free Trade aspect of Globalism...which still is filed with way too much Internationalism, and not enough Americanism

Paul much better than the Cheney’s though


11 posted on 07/20/2013 10:03:02 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Take a Stand, Take a Stand, Take a Stand Against The Black Ku Klux Klan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson