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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Are Witnessing The Biggest Rift In Republican Foreign Policy Since The 50s
http://www.businessinsider.com/rick-perry-and-rand-paul-fight-2014-7The sharp exchange last weekend between Rick Perry and Rand Paul over Iraq and more broadly, its relationship to the Reagan legacy in foreign policy may have seemed like mid-summer entertainment to many observers, or perhaps just a food fight between two men thinking about running against each other for president in 2016.
But from a broader perspective, we may be witnessing the first really serious division in the Republican Party over international affairs since the 1950s.
Republican unity on foreign policy and national security matters during the long period since isolationists and internationalists battled for party supremacy in the age of Taft and Dewey has been remarkable, particularly when compared to the frequent struggles among Democrats.
The Donkey Party, after all, experienced major ruptures over Vietnam in the 1960s and early 1970s, and over Iraq in the early aughts, and less traumatic but significant bouts of dissension over the Nicaraguan contras and nuclear policy in the 1980s, and over the First Gulf War in 1991.
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randome
(34,845 posts)This is only Republicans trying to stand out from the crowd. Mere pandering and trial ballooning and polling.
It's not real. But the GOP fading from power...that's real.
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Enrique
(27,461 posts)based on listening to RW radio. The hosts are defensive about their hawkish views. They are making their pro-war arguments to their own audiences, it's no longer just "the left" that they are arguing with.
randome
(34,845 posts)It's just hard to take any Republican seriously when the only thing they 'believe' in is to be against anything Progressives are for.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)In our party we have the all war, all the time everywhere of the Samantha Powers wing. And we also have the reconstruction at home wing typically articulated by the Congressional Black Caucus.
This is an important conversation to have.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Perry should share his make up artist with Ron Paul
Oh sorry that is Rand and what did he ever do with his father he kind of disappeared
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)He went to Texas A & M? Perry was another spoonfed child of very wealthy parents.
Perhaps his College sport uniform, pretty sure he was an A & M male cheerleader.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)AUSTINin a clear signal that he may run again for President, Gov. Rick Perry (RTX) today published an Op-Ed blasting Rand Pauls foreign policy.
Look, I havent read the papers for a while, said Perry. But my recollection is that he had some pretty dumb stuff in there about Iraq, or maybe Afghanistan. And I cant remember exactly what he said about Israel but I recall being irked by it.
Perry said that Rand Pauls mistaken views on places like France and Europe will drag us back to the days of the McEnroe doctrine. He added that there was something I think he said once about Mexico, or maybe Canadait was, like, maybe we should tax them, or maybe something about the foodwhatever it was, it was just flat wrong. He also said Paul gave insufficient focus to the border with Australia.
Perry was relatively upfront about his motives in writing the editorial. Look, I dont want people to think of me as a policy lightweight, he said in a subsequent interview. I want people to think of me as the guy who doesnt care if children die in my state from preventable diseases.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Smart Glasses is a governor that barely knows his ass from a hole in the ground--some neocon wrote his op-ed for him and put his name on it--and Paul is just imitating his dad's position (because it worked for old Ron), but with more Israel flattery.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The suits an expensive foreign made suit, so Perry knows plenty about foreign stuff!