Rick Perry Advocates Nuclear War in Middle East

Rick Perry's Israel policy (or lack of) has become more scary. Perry would support Israel launching a nuclear preemptive strike against Iran. Perry is so stupid I am not even sure he knows what he is saying. This is an example of how the neoconservative movement has taken over the Republican Party. Don't believe. Perry told Sean Hannity about his advisers.

You know, I have some great foreign policy conversations with Liz Cheney and with John Bolton, I mean, people who actually understand intimately where these countries are.

Apparently, Perry's qualification for foreign policy advisers is being good at geography. Liz Cheney has zero foreign policy experience. John Bolton advocated for blowing up the United Nations.

"If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a difference."

The sick irony is Bolton later attempted to get confirmed as U.N. ambassador. Bolton's confirmation could not get passed a Republican-controlled Senate.

Perry's foreign policy advisers are the daughter of a vice-president Dick Cheney. Cheney was so unpopular in 2008 that he did not appear at the Republican National Convention. Bolton flirted with running for president. The result was Bolton becoming a punchline. Perry has surrounded himself with advisers too radioactive for Republicans.

This leads to a bigger problem. Perry's recent bizarre speech in New Hampshire leads me to believe the guy is crazy. Perry now publicly advocates for Israel starting a nuclear WWIII in the Middle East. This goes beyond pandering to the base. There is something seriously wrong with Perry.

Major Breaking News Story

Chuck Todd and Ben Smith report that John Bolton is not running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Americans anxiously await the moment when Sarah Palin announces she is not running.

John Bolton For President

Every field as one candidate who is delusional enough to think he can be president. 2008 had Rudy Giuliani representing the Republicans and Dennis Kucinich for the Democrats. Giuliani goes around in drag and Kucinich as seen UFOs. It doesn't help that both men could play hobbets in the Lord of the Rings series.

An early contender for candidate with no hope for winning is John Bolton. He hinted to The Daily Caller that he might run.

“[I]t is a very great honor that anybody would even think of asking. I’m obviously not a politician. I’ve never run for any federal elective office at all and, you know, it is something that would obviously require a great deal of effort,” he said. “What I do think, though, and what concerns me, is the lack of focus generally in the national debate about national security issues. Now, I understand the economy is in a ditch and people are concerned about it, but our adversaries overseas are not going to wait for us to get our economic house in order.”

When pressed as to whether that means he would consider a run, Bolton seemed to suggest that he might do it, at the very least to help put national security issues at the top of the debate agenda.

“In the sense that I want to make sure that not only in the Republican Party, but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States. You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that…there is a limit to what that accomplishes,” he said. “Whereas, some governor from some state in the middle of the country announces for president they get enormous coverage even if their views are utterly uninformed on major issues.”

Imagine this man as President.

Bonus Quote of the Day

"I may never publish another op-ed in The New York Times after this."

John Bolton, on The New York Times not publishing the John McCain op-ed. How will The New York Times continue without Bolton's hysterical guest punditry? I still haven't recovered from The Times losing John Tierney twice-weekly comedy gems.

Joe McCarthy's Ghost

John Bolton couldn't even get confirmed for United Nations ambassador by a Republican Senate. "The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories," said Bolton. "If you lost ten stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference." A former Bush administration that served in government during the 9/11 attacks and publicly stated he didn't care if the U.N. was attacked, claims a Barack Obama presidency will unleash more attacks.



BOLTON: Yeah I think honestly that’s an optimistic view of it, that it will simply be a replay of the Clinton administration. It will simply have more embassy bombings, more bombings of our warships like the Cole, more World Trade Center attacks. That would be the best outcome from that perspective.

These neoconservatives love fear-mongering. They don't provide hope or solutions. They just tell us that war will continue (under their watch) and those that oppose their policies will bring attacks to U.S. soil. The Republican Party is still channeling Joe McCarthy's ghost.

"You are seeing today an all out attempt
to marshal the forces of the opposition,
using not merely the communists, or their
fellow travelers-the deluded liberals, the
eggheads, and some of my good friends
in both the Democratic and Republican Parties
who can become heros over night in the eyes
of the left-wing press if they
will just join with the jackal pack"

Joseph McCarthy

Why sell hope when hopelessness is easier.

Write A Caption: John Bolton Edition

No one in govenment has better hair.