Reading Sen. Dick Lugar's (R-IN) total smack down of Big Love Mitt Romney and his criticism of START definitely exemplifies an obvious divide between the calm, reasonable Republican foreign policy thinking of the last few decades and the new order of Republican Fox News junkies.
Governor Mitt Romney’s hyperbolic attack on the New START Treaty in the July 6 edition of The Washington Post repeats discredited objections and appears unaware of arms control history and context. In advancing these arguments, he rejects the Treaty’s unequivocal endorsement by the Defense Department led by Secretary Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also distances himself from prominent Republican national security leaders, including Jim Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, and Brent Scowcroft, who have backed the Treaty after thoughtful analysis.That's gotta hurt. Big Love just wants to appear tough. The only way to appear as a tough guy in today's Fox News-controlled GOP is to disagree with everything the president does. Applauding anything from the Obama White House like Sen. Lugar does, as well as every past Republican official who has had anything to do with foreign policy since Nixon, doesn't give you airtime.
The huge divide between this current crop of Republican thinking and the old Republicans who have actually led this country is also something Fox News isn't going to air. So we get left with people who have scary crazy ideas with dangerous world consequences like Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin smiling on teevee.
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