Posted on 11/16/2016 7:08:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Senator Rand Paul reiterated his opposition to both former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former UN ambassador John Bolton as secretary of state in an interview with the Guardian on Tuesday.
The interview follows an op-ed in Rare, an online conservative publication, where Paul condemned Bolton as “out of touch”.
The Kentucky senator grounded his opposition in the importance that Donald Trump “pick people who agree with his foreign policy”. Trump repeatedly argued on the campaign trail that the Iraq war was a mistake and condemned what he saw as an overly interventionist foreign policy from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. As Paul phrased it, Trump was “standing up not just to Woodrow Wilson” but also “a whole line of neocons in both parties”, and the senator believed such policies were “a big part” of Trump’s campaign.
Paul, who serves on the Senate foreign relations committee, insisted “there is no way I could vote for someone who is an unrepentant supporter of the Iraq war and regime change. I think that is a disaster for the country. It has made us less safe and so categorically I can’t support anybody that supports regime change.”
He noted in particular that Bolton, who wrote an op-ed in support of bombing Iran in 2015, was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the Iraq war and pointed out that Giuliani agreed with the former UN ambassador on Iran.
Instead, Paul suggested Senate foreign relations committee chair Bob Corker as an alternative. He’s “much more of a realist, not likely to be loading the bombs to go to Iran tomorrow”. In contrast, he suggested that Bolton’s hawkish stance was perhaps because he was trying to “assuage guilt” over “not serving in combat”.
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Yep, too establishment.
Bob Corker? Rand has lost his mind.
Corker just make a nuclear Iran a near certainty.
We need “peace through strength.” We don’t need “war through stupidity.”
No one cares.
Gee, Rand—Run and win; then you get to choose who you want.
That was the punchline of the joke.
RE: No one cares.
Apparently those who agree with Rand Paul do. Just watch this thread....
Agree Rand you can’t direct the selection process from the rear. Obama tried that for 8 years and the world is in ruins.
Trump knows how to hire multidimensionally so his staff isn’t just an echo chamber. He will cheerfully overrule his subordinates. His main objective is to hire top skills.
Well, it would get Corker out of the Senate, and then the Tennesseeans could start their mourning cycle.
That’s nice, Rand.....
We need to respect Rand, for he did run well with his KY constituency this year. Those folks are not always easy to please.
They are not anti-Israel enough for a Paul.
Rand barely said a word to help to defeat Hillary Criminal. Now he’s a loud mouth. How precious.
I suppose he’s all for his man McConJob
Well, I am a big fan of John Bolton. He’s my first choice for secretary of state.
Rand, I really don’t think it’s your decision to make....
Didn’t almost become President? Oh wait..he didn’t.
Didn’t he
almost become President? Oh wait..he didn’t.
Rand is more and more a clone of his father as time goes by.
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