{"id":18912,"date":"2011-05-05T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:32","slug":"republican_candidates_can_t_debate_obama_on_foreign_policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/05\/republican_candidates_can_t_debate_obama_on_foreign_policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Can\u2019t Debate Obama on Foreign Policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Now, folks, all of these articles, it\u2019s amazing how this works, and the lead article today AP, all these articles that we\u2019re now seeing about how the Bin Laden mission has made it impossible for any Republican candidate to ever match Obama\u2019s foreign policy achievements, never mind that before being elected president, Obama had zero experience in foreign policy, for that matter, in anything else. Even as a United States Senator, Obama never showed the slightest interest in foreign policy, apart from endlessly attacking all of the Bush foreign policies that he now embraces. It just makes me a little suspicious, all these coordinated stories. &#8220;Yeah, there\u2019s no way, Republicans can compete at foreign policy, there\u2019s no way.&#8221; And then Mitch Daniels is out there saying that he\u2019s probably not ready to debate Obama on foreign policy? (interruption) I know, but the thing about it, his foreign policy\u2019s a disaster. His foreign policy\u2019s been an unmitigated disaster, from Iran, to North Korea, to Libya. Where he\u2019s done well it\u2019s only because he\u2019s following Bush\u2019s foreign policies to the letter. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125109.Par.89380.ImageFile_57914582e7b41.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Folks, we know that we\u2019ve got challenges on our side in the Republican Party, but we do not need to be running around and saying, &#8220;Okay, we like Mitch Daniels cause his conservatism isn\u2019t combative.&#8221; Mitch Daniels pipes up and says, &#8220;I\u2019m not ready to debate Obama in foreign policy.&#8221; What? Why do we shoot ourselves in the foot? Why do we let these people set the premise and then we react? What are you shaking your head for in there? Well, he said it. He said it. Well, the AP says he said it. We always need a caveat. It is AP. Maybe he didn\u2019t say it. You know, it\u2019s entirely possible that Daniels did not say this the way the AP is reporting it. We have to hold that out as a possibility. <\/p>\n<p>But I mean there\u2019s something truly hilarious here. When a Democrat is running against a Republican with foreign policy credentials they tell us that all politics is local, that the template is that when it comes to foreign policy the Democrats can\u2019t hold a candle to any Republican. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s always been \u2019cause they\u2019re a bunch of doves, and now all of a sudden because of this mission, Obama\u2019s untouchable, Republicans don\u2019t dare even debate him on foreign policy, and now we need to change the tune of this template. And you look at Obama\u2019s poll numbers on his handling of the economy, and we\u2019re gonna get hung up here on whether or not we\u2019re ready to debate the guy on foreign policy? <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a piece by E. J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post where he says that the Bin Laden raid changes everything, that nobody will ever be able to think of Obama the same way, that it proves Obama\u2019s not afraid of using military force. He\u2019s just against dumb wars, like Bush\u2019s. And we\u2019ve got the plagiarist, Doris Kearns Goodwin, she was on TV today. It\u2019s hilarious. We\u2019ll play you the sound bites. We\u2019ll read you E. J. Dionne and some of the pabulum come out of these people\u2019s mouths about Obama. It\u2019s all predictable because the left is circling the wagons around Obama. It\u2019s all about Obama. 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