{"id":439936,"date":"2010-03-17T18:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79562"},"modified":"2010-03-17T18:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:31:48","slug":"neocons-vs-rand-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439936","title":{"rendered":"Neocons vs. Rand Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rand Paul takes a little less relish in arguing with neoconservative foreign policy hawks than his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), does. (The elder Paul’s debate confrontation with Rudy Giuliani was a pivotal moment in his insurgent presidential campaign.) But supporters of both Pauls generally despise the GOP foreign policy establishment. They’re going to love this part of Jonathan Martin’s great story<\/a> on Republican jitters about Rand’s Senate bid.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recognizing the threat, a well-connected former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney convened a conference call last week between Grayson and a group of leading national security conservatives to sound the alarm about Paul.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn foreign policy, [global war on terror], Gitmo, Afghanistan, Rand Paul is NOT one of us,\u201d\u00a0Cesar Conda wrote in an e-mail to figures such as Liz Cheney, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Dan Senor and Marc Thiessen.<\/p>\n

With an attached memo on Paul\u2019s noninterventionist positions, Conda concluded: \u201cIt is our hope that you can help us get the word out about Rand Paul\u2019s troubling and dangerous views on foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview, Conda noted that Paul once advocated for closing down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and sending some suspected terrorists to the front lines in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy could become our Republican senator from Kentucky?\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cIt\u2019s very alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paul probably won’t use this for fundraising, but his base doesn’t need him to.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rand Paul takes a little less relish in arguing with neoconservative foreign policy hawks than his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), does. (The elder Paul’s debate confrontation with Rudy Giuliani was a pivotal moment in his insurgent presidential campaign.) But supporters of both Pauls generally despise the GOP foreign policy establishment. They’re going to love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}