1. Democrats will never trust the Republicans, period.
2. A lot of conservatives -- including many right here on FreeRepublic -- who have voted for Republican candidates over the years don't trust the Republican Party, either.
You might be making the mistake of confusing "Republican" with "conservative" on many of these issues. The truth is that the Republican Party leadership is filled with big-government globalists who have no reason for anyone to trust them when it comes to looking out for America's best interests around the world.
As I said in an earlier post ... Hillary Clinton has the same problem among Democrats. With every passing day there are more and more reasonably intelligent people in this country from all points along the political spectrum who have come to believe that America's foreign policy -- and, by extension, its military assets -- are up for sale to the highest bidder (foreign or domestic).
There are more than a few of us out here who don't think its a coincidence that U.S. military campaigns over the last few decades always seem to be carried out for the benefit of nations whose leaders are major real estate investors with the Bush family in Texas, or who contribute millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
If we’re talking about international relations as it relates to our military, I’m not going to go back to ground zero and touch on the need for Conservative nominees. That’s a given. I will instead talk about our military campaigns and why they were needed. I will talk about our global presence, and the fact that we must remain steadfast on the world stage.
I recognize the difference between Republicans and Conservatives. I’ve only been harping on that issue for seventeen years here.