Posted on 02/18/2014 2:24:46 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Eric ... he ain't bungled a thing.
“Strong on Defense” and “Defense Spending” are no more correlated than “education” and “education spending”
Much of the DoD is just pork barrel spending anymore.
I’d take away the NSA budget for spying on every American, but by Cantor would say I’m “isolationist”
A little Reaganesque restraint would go a long way.
Cantor tried to get us into a shooting war in Syria on behalf of the Islamists.
This weasel must be removed from GOP leadership.
Let’s see - 89 percent of the American people opposed intervention in Syria. The LAST thing the vast majority want is another Mideast War; the “leadership” is far out of step on this.
And this dork is 2nd in line for Boner’s job.
great. we can trade one loser for another.
So do we let Israel fend for itself while Iran and Syria get nukes?
This is truly acting like a RINO.
“This is NOT being part of “the strong-on-defense wing of the GOP”, because RINOs confuse ‘militarism’ with ‘militancy’, which is almost the same as how Democrats imagine the military.
A ‘militant’ is someone whose concern is to have an effective, efficient military that accomplishes the missions assigned to it with the least loss of life and money. Truly committed to “diplomacy by other means”.
A ‘militarist’, like RINOs, create the worst impulses of “trying to buy victory” with flashy uniforms, improbable technologies, and throwing money at the military to waste. They are the kind of people who measure success in war in tons of bombs dropped, and obsess over enemy body counts.
Most recently, this was done by Lindsey Graham, in a silly effort to look like a “real man” by acting hyper-aggressive and macho. Yes, it was pretty pathetic.
Most importantly, it is *obviously* pandering to what they think the conservative base wants, as contemptuous ingratiation. They obviously don’t believe in such things, or hold military strength as a core value; because truthfully, they don’t really have core values.
For them it is just a campaign sound bite.
The feeling for them it should evoke in the conservative base is just the reaffirmation of contempt we hold for them.
One can oppose foreign aid and further meddling in Syria and Egypt without being an isolationist or a pacifist. Most foreign aid nowadays merely props-up socialism. And the current “regimes” in Egypt and Syria are the lesser of the evil groups that the Obama regime is aiding.
Probably the same one who sent emissaries to negotiate treaties with England, Spain, and France.
Treaties, not alliances.
I’d be a lot less worried about Iranian nukes than the prospect of the existing Pakistani nukes getting into the hands of terrorists. Iran, the so-called worldwide leader of state-sponsored terrorism, has never carried out an attack against American citizens on American soil.
Instead of shaming his countrymen, Cantor should provide an example, enlist, and go forth to spread Democracy, gay marriage and access to the latest Hollywood hit movies to the oppressed peoples of the world.
You didn’t answer the question.
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