MY SAY : ROUND ONE OF THE GOP CASTING COUCH FOR 2016
First the right stuff:
The GOP’s hawks were well represented at the event, led by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who has limited foreign policy experience but articulated a muscular vision during his Saturday keynote address. Walker said the threats posed by radical Islamic terrorism won’t be handled simply with “a couple bombings.”
“We’re not going to wait till they bring the fight to us,” Walker said. “We’re going to bring the fight to them and fight on their soil.” And Rubio is right up there in just about everything.
Then the blather:
Jeb Bush:”Our enemies need to fear us, a little bit, just enough for them to deter the actions that create insecurity,” Bush said earlier in the conference. He said restoring alliances “that will create less likelihood of America’s boots on the ground has to be the priority, the first priority of the next president.”
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham addressed the question of putting U.S. troops directly in the battle against the Islamic State group militants by saying there is only one way to defeat the militants: “You go over there and you fight them so they don’t come here.”
New York Rep. Peter King said: “If America becomes isolationist, if America sits back from its responsibilities, that gap is going to be filled by enemies.”
Businesswoman Carly Fiorina offered a similar outlook. “The world is a more dangerous and more tragic place when America is not leading. And America has not led for quite some time,” she said.
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