If the 2016 Republican primaries—or at least the subset of that nominating contest that determines the conservative alternative to the GOP establishment candidate—is decided by the toughest foreign-policy rhetoric, Cruz may well be betting correctly. But Paul isn’t trying to fight on Cruz’s terrain. Paul went to a mainstream conservative gathering and launched a blistering attack on surveillance, warrantless searches, drone strikes, executive abridgements of civil liberties—that is, the way George W. Bush waged the war on terror and the tactics most of Paul’s opponents in the Republican Party would still employ today. Rather than get into a shouting match with more hawkish Republicans over Russia—though he has condemned Vladimir Putin as often as he has tweaked the thinly-veiled Cold War nostalgia masquerading as foreign-policy thought in some corners of the right—he is making his case from a strong, limited-government conservative perspective.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:44:26 +0000
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