GOPer 'considering' an Obama challenge

[The Hitman]

Source: CNN

John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday he's "considering" a run.

"Yes, I am considering it," Bolton told conservative radio show host Aaron Klein's on WABC in New York. "If I did run, and I haven't made a decision, I have never run for office one way or the other, so it would be a pretty big decision to do it."
Bolton, who serves as a Fox News commentator, said he's concerned that the national discourse does not include talk of foreign policy. "I'm very concerned about the direction of national security policy," Bolton said. "I'm concerned that we hardly talk about it at national-level debates in the mainstream media."

He also said the president seems to view national security issues as an "irritation, a distraction from what his real priorities are."
In the interview Bolton said Obama "doesn't enjoy being commander-in-chief," and that it's important the Republican Party nominate a strong candidate because the president "gives a pretty good speech."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/28/goper-considering-an-obama-challenge/

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I think we found one possible GOP candidate that would get an ass kicking worse than Sarah Palin!

[Skittles]

1. THIS fucking clown?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Oh, Jesus Christ on a pogo stick!

Where do they get these people?

[TK421]

52. Hell...they all come straight from Hell n/t

[EV_Ares]

3. Just how many fricking potential republican candidates does Fox have on the payroll?

[struggle4progress]

5. Well, let's count them up. There's Gidget. And Barney Fife. And Cruella. And Herman Munster ...

[DFW]

33. One of them has already answered that.

"Oh, any of them. All of them."

[struggle4progress]

4. *snork*

:rofl:

*snork*

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

6. A run for what?

If he's thinking of running for the Republican nomination for the office of the President, he's an even bigger idiot than I previously thought he was.

His old boss wouldn't even vote for him.

[avaistheone1]

24. lol

good question

[RKP5637]

7. Good grief! They aren't scraping the bottom of the barrow anymore, they've managed

to break through the bottom to new lows. You look at the contenders and it's damn hard not to break out laughing, it's like a SNL skit. Too bad the future of the country is at stake, otherwise one could laugh.

[No Elephants]

35. GREAT metaphor.

You brought back an image I barely remember, I was so young at the timr.

Someone moved a barrel that had been sitting in one place for a long time. The dirt beneath was soggy and wormy and really gross.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Ugh.

Maybe some folks would see him as someone to vote for.....NOT me. NOT ever.

It wouldn't take much to expose him as the blustering loud-mouth that he is.

[JohnnyK]

9. What a jackass... a dangerous one at that.

"I have never run for office one way or the other" - what the heck does that even mean "one way or the other"? - What is the other way?

[BlueMTexpat]

32. Interim appointment. nt

[Zambero]

10. Why it's Yosemite Sam!

Sounds like we got us some Sarah Palin running mate material here.

[tanyev]

45. They could form the Rootin' Tootin' Party.

Yee-haw!

[Zambero]

53. They wouldn't even need $$$

Just a whole lotta beans for the tootin'!

[opihimoimoi]

11. Gatta be a trial baloon statement.....to gauge the temp of the realm.

[No Elephants]

34. Trial baboon?

[opihimoimoi]

46. LOL...How about TRIAL BOLTON??

[UpInArms]

12. bolton - the gift that keeps on taking

here's his bio

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_R._Bolton

Iran-Contra

"At the Justice Department, Bolton acted as the Department's 'no man' refusing to provide congressional committees documents on Supreme Court nominees William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. He also refused to provide information, including his personal notes regarding the Iran-Contra scandal, and aided congressional Republicans who attempted to stop investigations of Contra drug smuggling." <26>

Taiwangate

"The Taiwangate affair--which involves a $100 million secret Taiwan government slush fund that financed intelligence, propaganda, and influence activities within the United States and elsewhere--seems to be in the latter category <'fizzle'> at the moment. The beneficiaries of the lack of attention include three prominent Bush appointees at the State Department who, before joining the Bush administration, received money from this account. And one of these officials, John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, submitted pro-Taiwan testimony to Congress in the 1990s without revealing he was a paid consultant to Taiwan. His work for Taiwan, it turns out, was financed by this slush fund." <27>

Abolition of International Law

Bolton was instrumental in undermining international law, undermining the International Criminal Court (ICC), abrogating key international treaties, and scuttling attempts to implement important international agreements. Law is "only domestic law"; the remainder for Bolton is an issue of unhindered US power.

Pushing the Iraq war

Bolton was one of the key cheerleaders for the US-led war in Iraq in 2003, and appeared often on CNN and Fox News making the case for the war.

Foreign travel

Bolton stated at a congressional hearing in October 2005 that it was important to travel beyond New York. Bolton said:
"Well, I think that’s why it’s so important to work not only in New York…but to work in capitals as well. It is the phenomenon that sitting up there at Turtle Bay, that you operate in a little bit of a bubble... So that’s why this effort, I think, really does require a lot of attention not just in New York. If we left it only in New York I think we’d have the bubble problem and trying to break through that bubble should be one of our main diplomatic efforts."

However, in June 2006 the United Nations Security Council reported that Bolton had not attended any of the four missions undertaken by the Council to foreign countries.<28>

Affiliations
American Enterprise Institute, Senior Vice President for Public Policy Research 1997-2001
Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf
Council on Foreign Relations, 2001
Federalist Society – "Prominent role together with Ed Meese"– Jim Lobe (Mar. 9, 2005, DemocracyNow).
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Advisory Board
Institute of East-West Dynamics
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Research Fellow 1993
National Policy Forum, President (1995-1996)<29><30>
National Rifle Association
New Atlantic Initiative
Project for the New American Century, Signatory 1998
Project on Transitional Democracies
USAID, General Counsel 1981-1982; Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination 1982-1983
Taipei Times – Contributing columnist
Yale University, B.A. 1970, J.D. 1974

[DFW]

40. dupe--wrong place

[OhioBlue]

13. oh geez.....

is he serious???? There's no way he would win the primary... and he knows it. so I wonder what his goal is with this statement.

Edit to add: Is it more far right crazy to make Mittens or Jeb look like a good alternative????

[NBachers]

14. You know, this guy and Michael Bolton both make me physically ill to my stomach

[JohnnyK]

18. I feel the same way about 'Civilization, Phaze III' - n/t

[Lasher]

15. Oh look, it's the neocon party candidate.

This asshole should be in chains along with several others who lied us into war against Iraq.

[pscot]

16. Be still, my heart

:rofl:

[PDJane]

17. Let's see...........

Sarah Palin, the usual cast of suspects, Donald Trump, john Bolton, Randall Terry......you've got to be kidding me. Good Lord and Lady, people.

"It's a joke, right?" she says in a small, hopeful voice........

[Tx4obama]

19. There ain't no one that's gonna vote for that goofy looking man!

I wouldn't be surprised if we'll be hearing soon that Christine O'donnell is planning on running against President Obama LOLOLOL
It appears that ALL the republicans are bat-shit crazy!

Take a look in this article at the polling chart results of the GOP primary preferences contenders (no-college voters & college voters)
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/palin-support-limited-among-wealthy-college-educated-republicans/

If Bolton was included in the two lists he'd be at the bottom.

[PSPS]

20. "I have never run for office one way or the other"

"Yes, I am considering it," Bolton told conservative radio show host Aaron Klein's on WABC in New York. "If I did run, and I haven't made a decision, I have never run for office one way or the other, so it would be a pretty big decision to do it."

Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Ask Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and Steve Forbes. But it should work as a way to get some attention and dollars -- the classic "double dip" you can share with the rest of the candidates from the Fox News Party.

[ezmerelda39]

21. Isn't the Walrus

the one who rushed into the room in Florida and stopped the Bush/Gore recount in 2000? And, just who gave him the authority? I think I would have taken one look at the little squirt and kept on counting.............With the vast number of GOPers already on the campaign trail at Fox it will be interesting to see just who Fox decides to smear first........

[Historic NY]

22. He'd get lost in his mustache.

[Hulk]

23. Hope he does run for preznit....

It's going to make it really interesting to have all these reich wing nut cakes on one stage at a time. What a bunch of total clowns. I realize any one of the idiots could be nominated, and very possibly elected. But hey...they screwed this country so far, we'll never get it back to where it was before the great one, Buddha-reagan, started dismantling the American dream.

Do it bolton...to total buffoon. You will be in quite a crowd of idiots, but I'm sure you have your twisted ideology that needs to be shown to your populace of morons.

Nation of morons. I'm afraid...really afraid.

[kag]

25. Not that I think it's a real possibility...

(though it is good for a laugh or two), but if Bolton were to become U.S. president there would be no place on earth safe from his trigger-finger-on-the-button.

My hubby and I often discuss which country we would move to if the U.S. got any more ridiculously right-wingnut. But if this idiot were to inhabit the white house I think we'd be looking at Mars or beyond.

[MrModerate]

26. And I'm considering being born rich . . . with superpowers.

"It's a pretty big decision, but I'm concerned that Obama views rich people (and superheroes) as a distraction from his real priorities."

Lord luv a duck.

[DesertFlower]

27. Jesus Hussein Christ. nt

[southmost]

28. the message is that the democratic party is so weak

and unpopular, anyone, yes anyone, can have a chance to challenge President Obama


God, I hope that doesn't become true

[No Elephants]

39. The message I got was the Rethug Party is so weak, the likes of Newt, Bolton, Romney and Palin are

the best they can do.. Either that, or there's a vast right wing conspiracy to pretend to be a jerk running for President so a nebbish candidate like Pawlenty will look good by comparison when he or she announces. Or, maybe April Fools Day now comes in November. However you cut it, I'm optimistic about Obama's chances.

[classysassy]

29. Take a number and get in line

Sarah and the seven dwarfs are ahead of you.

[Blacksheep214]

30. 9-11 and Bolton

What do they have in common?

Bolton would blow the top floors off the United Nations building.

I can't wait to see how that ad would play out.

[BlueMTexpat]

31. The two major differences: Bolton can speak coherently, even

though he is a rabid fanatic, and he's not a woman about whom RWers can fantasize.
But he and Sarah are every bit as obnoxious and nasty as they can be. And every bit as dangerous.

[dkf]

36. Maybe he has been assigned to take Palin down.

The rest are too chicken

[dkf]

37. Maybe he has been assigned to take Palin down.

The rest are too chicken

[No Elephants]

38. Getting this news, who salivated more, Romney or Obama?

[DFW]

41. Sing this to the tune of "Yankee Doodle"

(From "Sing Along With The Republicans" from 2006)
Johnny Bolton Came To Town


A.)
Johnny Bolton came to town, a right wing stalking pony
No one really liked him except Bush and Berlusconi

B.)
“You’re here to serve Uncle Sam, make sure you understand it.
All the world should obey us, and I’m here to demand it!”

A.)
Bolton told the starving nations, bravo for their diet
Zero calories meant losing weight, we all should try it!

B.)
Bolton told the French don’t wait for any reconciling
No more chance of that than photographing him while smiling!

A.)
Bush and Rice chose Bolton using reas’ning and deduction
Just like they used to find Saddam’s arms of mass destruction!

B.)
Bolton will ne-go-ti-ate with friend and with rogue nation:
“Do things our way or you face complete annihilation!”


A.)
Johnny Bolton went to town, diplomacy a’ready.
Use kind words to win them over, or else just aim steady!

B.)
Johnny Bolton, Bush made you our man in that world forum.
Do us all a favor and now try to learn decorum!

[indimuse]

42. ok. I just woke up...WHAT??? oh loooord... n/t

[tavalon]

43. We couldn't get that lucky

But Palin is looking to be a possibility. I think being an international war criminal should preclude one from running for President. I'm sure our founding fathers would have added that had they thought towards such global issues.

[zonkers]

44. Can't deny the "throwback" appeal of the Grover Cleveland moustache especially if his likeness

ever ends up appearing any future currency.

[WhiteTara]

47. I read the headline that Bolton would Primary Obama!

How funny is that? Even funnier to think the mustache would run for president.

[alcibiades_mystery]

49. Half the so-called progressives would vote for him in a primary

They have to teach Obama a lesson, and it will only get better if it gets far worse first!

Luckily, that'll still cap 'em out at about 3%.

;-)

[WhiteTara]

50. Oh, right, I remember the Nadir theory of politics

"they" deserve it. Unfortunately that sh*tty little 3% can be ruinous. :grr:

[yellowcanine]

48. We need to encourage this if possible. A Palin - Walrus debate on foreign policy is too delicious

to pass on. What fun.

[Tiggeroshii]

51. Ok my day is made

:rofl:

[bitchkitty]

54. Bolton/Palin - a dream ticket! n/t