Trump’s penis moment recalls Teddy Roosevelt’s famous foreign policy line from 1901: Speak softly and carry a big stick
Some neoconservatives and Wall Street bigs will go to Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Neocons sign a letter warning of Trump’s isolationism and Mitt Romney says he could take the country “into the abyss”
One anti-establishment candidate is soaring, Donald Trump. While the other is sputtering, Bernie Sanders. That’s because Trump has taken on the foreign policy elite in his party, the neoconservatives, while Sanders has laid off the liberal interventionists who have never seen a regime change they didn’t like.
Neoconservatives are having panic attacks over Donald Trump’s noninterventionist foreign policy ideas. Robert Kagan, who helped bring us the Iraq war, is endorsing Hillary Clinton. While Jennifer Rubin says Trump endorser Chris Christie finked out after “months and months” of careful coaching on foreign policy by outside experts.
We are finally getting something of a national debate over Israel policy. The Republican debate in Houston last night had Israel at the top of the foreign policy portion, and Donald Trump said he could not start “demeaning” Palestinians if he’s going to negotiate a peace deal. Marco Rubio promptly demeaned Palestinians.
Marco Rubio blasts Donald Trump for saying he’ll be neutral on Israel, and says criticism of Israel is the “new face of anti-semitism,” in a sign that support for Israel is at last becoming a political issue in the presidential race.
Hillary Clinton needs Sheldon Adelson’s money, and Adelson needs a reliable supporter of Israel. That’s why he is passing on the Republican field and, terrified of Donald Trump, is surely interested in Clinton
The press is focused on Sheldon Adelson’s failure to publicly commit to a Republican candidate this year. Speculation is he wants to see if Marco Rubio can win a primary, that his wife likes Ted Cruz, and that he’s already secretly giving money to a Rubio-favoring PAC. But don’t count Donald Trump out. He also courts Adelson with pro-Israel rant on Hannity’s radio show.
Data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that Hillary Clinton is far and away the largest recipient of political donations from the defense industry. Writer Rania Khalek says, “But I’m sure those war profiteers are just incredibly generous and expect nothing in return.”
The percentage of Americans holding a favorable view of Israel has dropped by 16 points in two years; Donald Trump surely senses this in his avowedly-neutral comments on the conflict, which set him up to run against the Israel lobby in its support for Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton