The New Republic yesterday published a lengthy piece by Washington Times reporter Eli Lake highlighting how the “Republican foreign policy consensus has collapsed” and that the GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination are, as the article’s title says, “all over the map.”
Lake notes that there’s an internal strife within the GOP over whether Muslims pose a threat to America — with some neocons and conservatives like Grover Norquist embracing mainstream Islam and others, led by Islamophobic conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney, believing that, as Gaffney often says, the nation is close to instituting Sharia law.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is running for president and she is currently surging in polls. However, Bachmann isn’t exactly a foreign policy aficionado and she doesn’t talk too much about her views on international relations. Lake writes that when he started asking around about where she stands, he repeatedly was told to “talk to Frank Gaffney“:
TVNL Comment: They come out of the woodwork every time. Gaffnew was part of PNAC, and orchestrated the wars we are in now.
A former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that...
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, alleging...
The MyPillow company and its founder, Mike Lindell, a far-right influencer and acolyte of Donald Trump,...
