Sounds good to me!
Posted on 06/08/2010 4:39:47 PM PDT by Welshman007
What began as a whisper campaign months ago is now being openly discussed among conservatives, and that is the possibility that former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton could potentially become 'a sleeper candidate' for President in 2012 on the Republican ticket.
Bolton's credentials are stellar. While serving at the U.N. he was a fearless and sometimes controversial crusader for American interests at an institution that has major credibility problems with its overt promotion of extremist Islamic groups and nations.
As a stalwart proponent of liberty, Bolton made it clear that it is not in U.S. interests to support Communists in Cuba, Venezuela, or North Korea, nor the overt push in the EU toward socialism, which has brought the entire continent to the brink of economic collapse.
Instead, along with a few other members of the Bush Administration Bolton emphasized the strategic importance of aligning ourselves with eastern European countries that had suffered under the relentless oppression of Marxism/Communism and had tasted the sweet victory of human freedom with the demise of the Soviet Union.
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I hope so.....
I swoon at the thought.
I’d vote for him.
He’d immediately become my first choice!
Are you still planning to “expose Free Republic nationally” if folks don’t agree with you?
No kidding. After all the energy the left expended hating him they were never able to come up with a concrete reason other than “He’s a meanie”.
Further, I note that you just post threads, never comments.
Curious.
Fine with me. Even head of Home Land Sec. or CIA/FBI etc. etc. Have had my eye on him for quite awhile now. One of the best.
Ditto!
Hhhmm.....Bolton or the Huckster? Tough choice.
I’d hit that voting lever for him.
Re ‘Bolton!’ [Jay Nordlinger]
My inbox is full of e-mail in full-throated support of an idea we discussed earlier: Bolton for President. Some say, “My friends and I have talked about this for months.” Readers really want to bypass secretary of state altogether and send Bolton right to the Oval Office. In fact, that may be easier for JRB: election by the people over confirmation by the Senate.
Seriously, shouldn’t there be some outside-the-box candidates in 2012? A Petraeus, a Bolton? Must the field include only the same old suspects? Do you know a clearer thinker, a sharper speaker, a bolder official than Bolton? The times could use a guy like him, frankly. And in debate against Obama — wow.
Many readers have said, “About time we had a president with a mustache.” That’s what President Bush used to call him, or called him at least once: “The Man with the Mustache.” Readers also said, “When was the last time we had a president with glasses? Bush 41? How about before that?” A lot of people mentioned TR: mustachioed and bespectacled.
Finally, one reader said, “We conservatives always set our sights too low. Forget having Bolton as president. Make him dictator for a day, à la Friedman and China.” Yeah, and don’t forget that Woody Allen wants to confer dictatorial powers on Obama, too (temporarily, to be sure).
Anyway, I think I feel a draft . . . “Bolton for President.” To paraphrase an old line — I learned this from Bob Novak; a 19th-century Republican speaker of the House said it, I think — “The Republican party and the American people could do worse, and probably will.”
By the way, if you’d like to read my review of Bolton’s book, Surrender Is Not an Option — which I described as “an autobiography, a chronicle of recent world history, a dissection of government, a portrait of the George W. Bush administration, [and] a foreign-policy treatise, or series of them” — go here.
06/08 02:03 PM Share
He is the closest thing to presidential material of anyone that I have seen. Tough, common sense, down-to-earth. When was the last time you saw someone like that in Washington?
Certainly better than most of the fools the media has been trying to tell us are our accepted candidates.
I like Bolton precisely because he is outspoken and almost always correct in his insights.
And unfortunately, these same strengths may not make him a great candidate for president.
But then again you can never tell because these same strengths seemed to work for such men such as Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
The electorate unfortunately has a nasty habit of discounting men who are abrasive especially when they are plain spoken and tell the hard truth, something that is sorely needed in politics especially now more than ever.
Bolton. Wow. But could he, and would he?
Sounds good to me!
I’d be content with Secretary of State. I think Bolton’s political talents are questionable.
Now THAT would be sumptin’ wouldn’t it?
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