Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is mulling a presidential run in 2016, on Monday morning criticized presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) views on foreign policy.
“He has a view of the world that I don’t share. He said we shouldn’t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama — that was a disaster,” Graham said about Paul on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Generally speaking, he’s been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don’t share. And I like him, but he’s his father’s son.”
Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin, a “Morning Joe” panelist, then asked Graham how he could run an aggressive campaign against Hillary Clinton given that he is friends with the former secretary of state.
“Well, that would disqualify Jeb [Bush] because apparently Bill [Clinton] is like his illegitimate brother,” Graham quipped in response.
Later, co-host Joe Scarborough asked Graham if he was closer to Rand Paul or Hillary Clinton when it comes to foreign policy.
Graham indicated that he was closer to both Clinton and President Obama since “even Obama is more aggressive” than Rand Paul.
“Rand Paul is behind Obama, not just Hillary Clinton,” Graham said.
If anyone knows about disastrous foreign policy, it’s Graham. Graham and other neocons only have one tool in their foreign policy toolbox, and that is war. That hasn’t worked out so well for the US the past 50 years or so.
Because ms lindsay and his best pal jony mc, are the two kings of disastrous foreign policy.
They never met a conflict that they didn’t want US troops in.
The one note wonders. Send in US troops. That’s it, that’s all they’ve got.
The mere fact that Lindsey thinks war is a synonym for “foreign policy,” from which it follows that any foreign policy that doesn’t involve blowing brown people into itty bitty bits and sending tens of thousands of young men and women to be welcomed as liberators before being killed, maimed, brain damaged, or psychologically wounded, is surrender to the Scary Bad People, is, of course, no reason to believe Rand Paul is in, the slightest degree, sane or correct.
And so it begins…In 2008 and '12, the Republicans went after Obama time and again by claiming he was worse than Clinton. They later touted Clinton’s record as proof Obama is terrible. Now it appears we’re heading into the age of “Bill Clinton was better than Obama, HRC is worse than Obama, and X is worse than/agrees with all three.”
Wow! Judging from the picture, Lindsey is working himself up to challenging Mitch McConnell’s senate leadership in a titanic struggle for male dominance culminating in a colorful display of head-to-head,pendulous, wobbling wattle shaking. Amazingly, serious injuries to either male are rare as such behavior is ritualized; the defeated male slinking off into the senate cloakroom to recover his dignity.