Posted on 01/05/2016 10:19:14 AM PST by conservativejoy
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% ratcheted up his attack on fellow contender Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% Monday by comparing his foreign policy worldview to that of President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During a speech in New Hampshire Monday, Rubio slammed Cruz as an "isolationist" and mocked the loquacious Texas senator by noting that ISIS could not "be filibustered."
Cruz told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on his campaign bus in Iowa that he wasn't surprised by Rubio's assault.
"It's not surprising that Senator Rubio, and others in the Republican field, are launching more and more desperate attacks," he said. "We should protect the United States of America first. That means we shouldn't engage in the kind of military adventurism that has characterized Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and sadly, far too many establishment Republicans including Marco Rubio."
Cruz specifically pointed to Rubio's support for intervening in Libya in 2011 as being in line with Obama and Clinton's foreign policy.
"In Libya, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton led NATO in toppling the government there," Cruz said. "Senator Rubio enthusiastically supported Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in toppling the government in Libya. The result was Libya became a lawless war zone governed by radical Islamic terrorists and that has profoundly endangered our national security."
In his foreign policy address Monday, Rubio stood by his support for intervening in Libya, but he blamed the Obama administration for engaging in only "half-measures in Libya instead of doing what it would take to prevent terrorists from taking hold - terrorists who ultimately took the lives of four Americans in Benghazi."
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FWIW, Cruz supported the McCain/Obama policy of creating chaos in Ukraine.
Cruz supporters claim, for whatever strange reason, that Trump is serving as a trailblazer for Cruz. However, I have no objection for Cruz polishing off Rubio.
Mario loves nation building. I support the annihilation of Isis and then leave as fast as we came in . I do not want to occupy, at my expense and the death of my soldiers, any Arab country In fact, I don’t want to be in Japan, Korea , Africa, South Korea, any European country or in fact any country. GET OUT!! Move the troops to our southern border and pay off the NATIONAL DEBT!!
I wouldn’t say the say as Obama. Hillary, maybe. I do think Rubio would stir up WW3. Cruz should be more precise, though. Obama’s policy is to say one thing and then sneak behind the scenes and do another. He as a foreign policy that is mostly theater to deceive Americans and efforts to spread liberalism worldwide. Also to promote his favorite segment of Islam.
All the claims every candidate is making now, don't have a lot of credibility.
And Cruz won’t let the illegals back in. It is on!!! Wonder what names Trump will be calling him.
Trump is the drunk in the bar that says what we all think. And his knowledge and temperament probably aren’t as good as said drunk. No disrespect intended to drunks.
Trump is attacking Hillary. That's good for him, and bad for her.
Cruz and Rubio are fighting with each other, but pretty much ignoring Trump, like they are fighting for second place. They are both hurting themselves and each other. Mutual Assured Destruction.
Jeb is fighting with Trump, who either dismisses him or ignores him. That's helping Trump, and hurting himself, as he looks more and more inconsequential (his strategy mirror's Lindsey's and is about as effective).
Christie is targeting Jeb, and seems to be doing pretty well with it, and is now being seen as possible third place candidate in New Hampshire.
The only person really taking on Trump is Bernie Sanders! That is great for Bernie, and also good for Trump (because Bernie is not taken seriously by most people, only his far-left socialist base).
Weird election dynamics at this point.
Who drops out next?
Who quits after New Hampshire?
* Santorum and Huck could should quit after Iowa. That was their base, for both of them, and bottom of the pack there means their campaigns are over. I can't see either staying past New Hampshire, and that would be face saving.
* Carly has no where to go. She should exit after NH.
* Rand Paul's best state is probably NH. Anything other than a top three finish and he should quit. He's unlikely to be in the top three, so it will probably mark his exit too.
* Kasich will be finishing behind Jeb and Christie in New Hampshire. What's his path to victory? What is his rationale for remaining in the race?
If Kasich finishes fifth or sixth and stays in what you are seeing is candidates playing for a brokered convention, in my estimation.
Kasich could, conceivably, win a brokered convention.
* Jeb stays in until Florida, and perhaps further, if he finishes top 2 there.
* Rubio stays in as long as he's in the top four, hoping Jeb bows out first. He's likely to pick up a lot of votes from whoever does leave after New Hampshire, and so get a little mini-boom going into Super Tuesday.
* Cruz and Trump are in until the convention, regardless.
When a Senator actively supports a policy while in office, I think it is fair to assume that he will continue that policy. Rubio has supported the policies that led to Benghazi. He still supports invading countries for regime change despite the disastrous results we have seen from such policy.
Have you ever heard of Barack Obama?
He's currently 4th nationally, so it's strange expecting him to exit before Bush and Christie, but he has less of a chance of getting to the nomination than either of them, in my opinion.
How many 4th place finishes do you need, before you admit it's not happening? Carson will never win a brokered convention.
*I'll say exit after South Carolina for Carson.
"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.
We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."
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"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.
We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.
These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.
These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."
"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.
Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."
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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.
The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.
For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.
We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html
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Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.
Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.
Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
No surprise, Heidi and Ted will follow Bushy policy.
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” Cruz and Rubio are fighting with each other, but pretty much ignoring Trump, like they are fighting for second place. They are both hurting themselves and each other. Mutual Assured Destruction. “
My read is that Cruz is trying to vacuum up votes from all the candidates other than Trump. Enough of those, and he’ll get a plurality, if not a majority. Rubio is trying to claw his way up to second place, and deal with Trump when and if he gets there.
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