The Republican Party is offering potential Presidential candidates who have no clue on world affairs, or have dangerous views on foreign policy, and/or have no experience to speak of in diplomatic situations.
The following potential candidates have NO credentials at all in this important area in a world that is changing rapidly:
Rand Paul
Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
Paul Ryan
Rick Santorum
Rick Perry
Chris Christie
Jeb Bush
Bobby Jindal
Scott Walker
John Thune
it is true that Rand Paul and Marco Rubio sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and that Jeb Bush’s brother and father were President of the United States, and foreign policy has been discussed within that family.
But compare that to Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State for four years, and learned about foreign policy under her husband, President Bill Clinton, in the 1990s.
And Vice President Joe Biden had 36 years in the Senate, including time as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and now is in his second term as Vice President, intimately involved in foreign policy issues.
So NONE of the GOP potential Presidential candidates have any real, valuable experience, except in speaking out on issues they know nothing about!
Foreign policy will be a most important issue in 2016, so who could the GOP run who could compete with either Hillary or Joe, and give them a real challenge?
The only person who fits this profile is former Utah Governor and Ambassador to China, and earlier Ambassador to Singapore, Jon Huntsman, who is a moderate mainstream conservative. He is very talented, brilliant, multilingual including Chinese, and knows and understands world affairs!
But would the Republican Party have the brains and intelligence to choose Huntsman as their Presidential nominee?
The answer is ZERO, and because of that, the GOP does not offer experienced, qualified candidates for the Presidency on foreign affairs, such as Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, and John McCain in the past!
Ed Schultz told outloud on his TV show this weekend what I’ve been thinking about Chris Christie — the guy is too brash.
Princess Leia, Ed Schultz and you are correct. Christie is too brash, too much of a loud mouth, too rude and crude, too insulting to critics, and could lose his temper in a debate with others, and imagine him dealing with foreign governments and leaders with his “holier than thou” attitude toward critics, and people he thinks are stupid! He lacks diplomacy and tact, and that is precisely what we DO NOT need in the Presidency, as he could start a war with his mouth!