print“Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul” is a column only Pat Buchanan could have written—the writing is “muscular” and spare and the analysis rooted in a deep understanding of history and Old-Right tradition (“… one of the great patriots of our time,” I had called Buchanan).
(See my take on the “We are all Georgians” McCain-coined mantra, mentioned in the “Marco Rubio vs. Rand Paul” column.)
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio, rising star of the Republican right, on everyone’s short list for VP, called for a unanimous vote, without debate, on a resolution directing President Obama to accept Georgia’s plan for membership in NATO at the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.
Rubio was pushing to have the U.S. Senate pressure Obama into fast-tracking Georgia into NATO, making Tbilisi an ally the United States would be obligated by treaty to go to war to defend.
Now it is impossible to believe a senator, not a year in office, dreamed this up himself. Some foreign agent of Scheunemann’s ilk had to have had a role in drafting it.
And for whose benefit is Rubio pushing to have his own countrymen committed to fight for a Georgia that, three years ago, started an unprovoked war with Russia? Who cooked up this scheme to involve Americans in future wars in the Caucasus that are none of our business?
The answer is unknown. What is known is the name of the senator who blocked it – Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who alone stepped in and objected, defeating Rubio’s effort to get a unanimous vote.
The resolution was pulled. But these people will be back. They are indefatigable when it comes to finding ways to commit the blood of U.S. soldiers to their client regimes and ideological bedfellows.
A while back I had warned about Rubio, in “Neoconservative Kingpin Taps Ryan/Rubio.”
William Kristol was touting Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio as a 2012 presidential item. “If Kristol is this excited, it mus be at the promise of killing and carnage.
Mr. Buchanan is spot-on again. When will this evil, putrid paradigm of international meddling cease? How did a nation that began by shunning “entangling alliances” come to this, the ceaseless draining of blood and treasure at the behest of chickenhawks? Doubtless, the author, like Dr. Paul, will continue to be derided, and – painful irony to relate – by many of the empire’s victims, including those of us in fly-over country who think we’re being patriotic by continuing to send our sons (and daughters – AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!) off to bleed, occupy, etc.
“…the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes…”. Disraeli to the British House of Commons
It is apparent our fair-haired Rubio has been had at little cost to anyone but the country. I await the trial balloon submission of Rove Republicans for the ultimate dream team ticket for a future election – Jorge Bush y Marco Rubio. Oh for a blond bush!!!
[Not sure what this means, GP, but Rubio blond? You have him confused with … a blond person.]
This Ron Paul vs. the Establishment 2012 fight shows why the entire Warfare State issue is one that cannot be neglected or pushed under the rug. It is quite fundamental to the whole definition of the federal government. Making alliances with Bananastan, Latrinia, Ureaky, and SwampDreck to contain the evil [fill in the “Hitler of the Month”], keeping bases in Dungistan and Vomitia, and sending foreign aid and “advisors” to fight Neanderthal insurgents and teen age rapists on Schmuckania – this has resulted in a bloated Federal Government that endangers both our economy and our liberty.
While I have some disagreements with Pat B – this is a good column. It is also why the neocons state that they would back Obama over the “unacceptable” Paul. Rand is just a little more subdued than his dad but his instincts are solid.
A few years ago, I investigated (Internet wise) the country of Georgia as a possible retirement home. From what I can tell, it would make a great place to live out your life, other than the poor politics and the Muslims nearby. But the politics seemed to be improving; then the new regime came in or showed its face and I had to cross it off my list. Now NATO? An evil bastard of an organization that never was needed and should disappear and new congressmen are embracing it; disgusting. Thank you Rand Paul.
Mike Church nailed him pretty good, when he called him “Marco ‘Woodrow Wilson’ Rubio.”
We were warned not to drink the Herman Cain koolaid just to show the world that the Conservatives could nominate someone as unqualified as Barry Soetoro based on color of skin. Now comes Rubio who is the Hispanic version of the same song. If Barry was/is not constitutionally eligible to be POTUS, then neither is smooth-talking Rubio. Once you get into politics, they’re all the same coin.
Does anyone else think Rubio’s “meteoric” rise within the GOP ranks is peculiar? Rubio and Rand Paul are both considered Tea Party new bloods, but Rubio is treated by all as a rock star, Cuban Obama, etc.
I never understood how Rubio became so beloved by the Tea Party types so quickly. Full disclosure: I voted for him in Florida (against Crist), but the way he impressed some reminded me of the glazed look of adulation people had for Obama. Rubio is loved by everyone it seems: Neocons, establishment, radio types, Tea Party, and conservatives. And they’re so quick to tack him on to every permutation of the 2012 GOP ticket.
The power of a great personal story and the sway of an emerging minority group, hmm?
Ms. Mercer
Rubio in Spanish – ‘blond’.
[I knew you were too sophisticated to mistake him for a blond. LOL; joke’s on me. I do not have any Spanish.]