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Who gets to be in charge is the guy who says he ought to be, the guy who is the real republican party expert on foreign policy. so for the lack of any competition for the title, the republican party is once again turning to this man senator john mccain to lead them on foreign policy. senator mccain continued to lead the charge. as of this weekend, for politicizing the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya, hes not only saying he would block susan rice from being nominated to succeed hillary clin...

Policy. by the time of that third debate, it was more like a forfeit, okay, you win, we dont want to talk about it. but you dont get to decide when you want to learn about it or talk about it. the policy committee is in congress that makes decision about foreign policy this v to make decision about foreign policy. the senate has to confirm somebody as secretary of state, even if john mccain decides he doesnt want one this year. theres a basic level of competence required, even of of the oppositi...

A bad idea and to have come up with a new conservative idea about how to clean up the problems that got them to iraq and to have a better idea about how to be a conservative opposition party on issues of foreign policy. how long is it going to take to get that? >> theres going to have to be a turnover in the republican party on this issue. there really is no foreign policy. theres a return to isolationism isolationism, being advanced by rand paul. and thats an old kind of republicanism that didn...

Had some stature on foreign policy was richard lugar who was replaced with richard mourdock. thats what happened to the foreign policy expertise in the senate. mccain has a vacuum to fill. he loves to be on camera. hes constantly on the sunday shows and everything in between. theres no one else home. and meanwhile, the rest of the party is worrying about discovering latinos and women and young people that they have to court. >> the thing that struck me watching news over the weekend and watching...

Policy. by the time of that third debate, it was more like a forfeit, okay, you win, we dont want to talk about it. but you dont get to decide when you want to learn about it or talk about it. the policy committee is in congress that makes decision about foreign policy this v to make decision about foreign policy. the senate has to confirm somebody as secretary of state, even if john mccain decides he doesnt want one this year. theres a basic level of competence required, even of of the oppositi...

About what was going on in israel and gaza, he said we were crumbling all over the middle east because of the light footprint policy of the obama administration. what do you think he means by light footprint? >> all i can think of is he wants a heavy footprint. he wants to arm everybody. >> not leave iraq? >> not leave iraq. surge, surge worked in iraq. it didnt. a surge was going to work in afghanistan, he pushed for that. it didnt. you forgot about the surge we should have had in afghanistan a...

Secretary of state until he gets what he wants. even though we dont know what it is that he wants. because its definitely not more information, because when information is being offered, hes not showing up for the briefings. how did john mccain get to be the republican partys north star on foreign policy in 2012? i mean, senator mccain had a capital h heroic military career. being held as a prisoner of war and holding himself in circumstances as a prisoner of war that have never been duplicated ...

Mccains prom nance on this subject. if the president wants to nominate susan rice for secretary of state, should they be taking the john mccain e threats seriously? do you think he could stop it? >> i dont think he could stop it. i dont think they should take seriously. his power is just about noise because the republican party really doesnt care about it. yes, there are a group of people in the house who agree with him. hes now lost one of his three amigos, his lame duck. so its him and lindsey...

And while thats happening, everybody wants to talk about israel and gaza. it seems like a reminder to me that you dont have the luxury of choosing to specialize in one type of policy and to just give up on the others. and the republicans have just sort of given up on competing in foreign policy. >> they are not talking about the pacific and mccain isnt really talking about israel and gaza. hes talking about susan rice. an appointment that hasnt even happened yet, a figure that, frankly, not know...

That. when john mccain did try to talk about what was going on in israel and gaza, he said we were crumbling all over the middle east because of the light footprint policy of the obama administration. what do you think he means by light footprint? >> all i can think of is he wants a heavy footprint. he wants to arm everybody. >> not leave iraq? >> not leave iraq. surge, surge worked in iraq. it didnt. a surge was going to work in afghanistan, he pushed for that. it didnt. you forgot about the su...