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Bolton Seriously Considering Presidential Run by Jason Mattera 06/15/2011 Unimpressed with the current crop of candidates and their campaign themes, former UN Ambassador John Bolton says he’s strongly considering entering the GOP presidential race and will make a decision by Labor Day, he told HUMAN EVENTS in an exclusive interview. “I don’t see any of the Republicans in the race now who have made foreign policy a priority,” he said. “We’re sleepwalking into a real potential disaster.” Bolton said he understands the enormous economic challenges facing the country, but national security can’t take a back seat. “Our adversaries overseas are...

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton wrote an article in Standpoint on President Barack Obama and the 2010 elections, attacking the president on international issues and raising questions regarding the staffing of the administration. While Bolton -- whose name has been floated as a possible candidate for the Republican presidential nomination -- focused on foreign policy, he did raise some interesting questions about the president’s economic team. “With heavyweight economics advisers such as Christina Romer and former Harvard president Larry Summers already history, can the Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner be far behind?” asked Bolton. “Do other high-profile officials such as special...

John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced today he is considering a bid for U.S. president in 2012. It was his first direct response to months of Internet speculation that he may join the next presidential race. Bolton was speaking to WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on the latter's investigative radio show on WABC in New York. "Yes, I am considering it," Bolton said when asked if he is considering a 2012 presidential run. "I am very concerned about the direction of national security policy." Continued Bolton: "I am concerned that we hardly talk about it...

Mexico today increasingly resembles Colombia 25 years ago. Drug cartels are strengthening rapidly, Mexico's governmental authority and legitimacy are weakening and the people are deeply divided over how to respond to the cartels' challenge to Mexico's civil society. The stakes for the United States were high in Colombia back then, but they are even higher now in Mexico. The drug cartel threat has already rendered broad areas on our side of the border unsafe. The State Department has ordered dependents in some consular posts to leave Mexico and warned against cross-border travel by land, even in daylight. Central American diplomats...

Bolton for President: A ‘Goldwater Conservative’ October 1, 2010 By Robert Costa John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tells National Review Online that he is seriously considering a 2012 presidential run. “I am a Goldwater conservative,” he says. “I am not a professional politician. I don’t anticipate running a typical kind of campaign, if I do make that decision.” In an interview this morning in his Washington office, Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime diplomat, opened up about a potential campaign, discussing his views on foreign policy and domestic affairs. “I...

Via RCP, this isn’t the first time he’s hint-hint-hinted that he’s thinking about this, but since the last post about it was received rapturously by commenters, I figured you might be hungry for more. To my surprise, he does sound serious here about running. His earlier conversation with the Daily Caller about a potential candidacy was more coy, which made me believe he was just teasing a bit, but this time he owns right up to considering a campaign. Maybe the response to the previous trial balloon was so enthusiastic that he figured it’s worth floating a bigger one? I’m...