“Golden child”?
Yeah that doesn’t sound snarky at all.
Actually, Cotten sounds good.
This is overblown.
The Republican party is still very much drifting into non-interventionist foreign policy territory. The insane rantings of Juan McLame and the clear blowback with regard to arming rebels in Libya, have poisoned the interventionist strand of Republicanism now on the wane.
Tom Cotton won with large conservative support primarily because he has been a thorn in Boehner’s side on many issues in the house, he’s solid on social issues, and he had a great chance of knocking off Mark Pryor.
In the senate, Cotton will be on the more conservative side of the 50/50 divide line of the Republican senators, likely more conservative than John Boozman.
There is not going to be a big foreign policy argument in the coming decade, regardless of what ISIS does. Everyone is worried about other things.
The 2003 invasion may well have been justified. But ever since it has been going steadily south, as we lost all vision and purpose.
War for the sake of war? And mostly being fought on the wrong side? I don’t think so. That’s McManiac’s dream.
I’m not a fan of Rand Paul, but he’s right on that one.
He should get along with McCain and Graham then. Neither one of those have ever seen a situation that couldn’t be improved by sending in troops either.
I am telling you that I cannot be more proud of my fellow Gen X’ers.....notice all of them are conservative. Incredible.....we have so much work to do to fix the disaster that the Boomer Generation did to this country. Thank You Walker, Cruz, Cotton and on and on.....Life is sure looking mighty bright now after so many dark years. We really should have gone from Reagan to X’ers...we would have been better off.
LOL Arkansas? Whoda thunk. The reddest of red states...
I will take an antiwar Republican over a neocon Republican everytime, Neocon = more big government, more deficit spending, more boots on the ground and more crony capitalism.
“One of Paul’s top priorities is moving the Republican Party away from George W. Bush’s neoconservatism; one of Cotton’s is pulling the party back towards it.”
So it’s now ONE OR THE OTHER. Funny, Reagan was never accused of being an Isolationist (Paul) or being a Neoconservative. Reagan was simply a conservative, and acted in this country’s interest. Had Reagan gone into Iraq in 2003, he would have overthrown Hussain, installed someone better, and left. That used to be US policy.
They'd be fools to follow his cue and create more animosity within the party.
He's not the only one to portray Cotton as a neocon, though.
If Tom Cotton starts hanging out with McCain and Graham too much, what does that do to his reputation here?