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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans are smitten with Palinesque Democrat from Hawaii.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416313/meet-beautiful-tough-young-democrat-whos-turning-heads-challenging-obamas-foreignThey coo over how "beautiful" and "exotic" she is. Because, they're still sexist dipshits even when they like someone.
Shes young, shes hip, and shes beautiful. Shes also a combat veteran and a Democrat who has made headlines for slamming the Obama administrations rudderless foreign policy. Tulsi Gabbard may be a Democrat, but the 33-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii has endeared herself to right-wing hawks by showing a willingness to buck the president, and her party, on foreign affairs.
And what kind of brilliant strategic policy critiques does she offer?
I dare you to imagine how these words would sound coming out of Sarah Palin's mouth:
REP. TULSI GABBARD (D-HI): I think we do need to remain very focused on those threats. I think Prime Minister Netanyahu's comments on his politically expedient comments as well as his comments on Israeli-Arabs should not have been made. He has apologized for that. We do have real threats that we're facing, a few of which include this negotiation with Iran but also really the confusion around what is Iran's status. We have the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper omitting Iran and Hezbollah from the list of threats to our country for the first time in a long time and we also have Iran's growing influence with their Shia militia and their troops on the ground growing really in Iraq and the ground that they are controlling as well as in Yemen and in other places.
So, there seems to be really a lack of coherent strategy with regards to how we as the United States are dealing with Iran as we look at this threat of nuclear armed Iran as well as this threat of Islamic extremists like ISIS, like al Qaeda, like Boko Haram who really it should be no surprise that they are training together again because it's less about the name of a specific group, the common theme here is that these are radical Islamic extremists conducting violent terrorist activities and until we recognize and understand who they are, how they are operating, then we're not going to be able to have a coherent winning strategy to defeat them.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/03/24/dem_rep_gabbard_lack_of_coherent_strategy_to_deal_with_iranian_nuclear_threat_islamic_extremism.html
To recap, for Republicans to swoon over a woman, the basic requirements are:
1) she bash Obama;
2) she have the 'exotic' outside the lower 48 factor;
3) superficially attractive; and
4) be able to churn out industrial-strength word salad when attempting to discuss policy.
still_one
(92,396 posts)will make sure to inscribe from this war monger idiot
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)She holds all the right positions on everything else. Pro-choice, pro-gay, wants to restore Glass-Steagle, into renewable energy, Siera Club endorsed, speaks out against the wars even though she served in Iraq....
And, yeah, she's young and "superficially" beautiful.
We should be promoting the hell out of her.
The right is going to love her right up until they realize she's a liberal, then they'll find some way to call her a whore or an idiot.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
http://gabbard.house.gov
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)without challenge. I think what was accomplished was ensuring that they DON'T develop them.
msongs
(67,441 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)but they like modi also . i guess if they fit certain requirements they can overlook certain things. like ayn rand not believing in god.
Cha
(297,655 posts)getting.
Blah blah blah.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)But then again, they seem to idolize Putin as well, so I guess that wouldn't be a disqualifier.