Republicans are smitten with Palinesque Democrat from Hawaii.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416313/meet-beautiful-tough-young-democrat-whos-turning-heads-challenging-obamas-foreign
They coo over how "beautiful" and "exotic" she is. Because, they're still sexist dipshits even when they like someone.
She’s young, she’s hip, and she’s beautiful. She’s also a combat veteran and a Democrat who has made headlines for slamming the Obama administration’s rudderless foreign policy. Tulsi Gabbard may be a Democrat, but the 33-year-old congresswoman from Hawaii has endeared herself to right-wing hawks by showing a willingness to buck the president, and her party, on foreign affairs.
And what kind of brilliant strategic policy critiques does she offer?
I dare you to imagine how these words would sound coming out of Sarah Palin's mouth:
REP. TULSI GABBARD (D-HI): I think we do need to remain very focused on those threats. I think Prime Minister Netanyahu's comments on his politically expedient comments as well as his comments on Israeli-Arabs should not have been made. He has apologized for that. We do have real threats that we're facing, a few of which include this negotiation with Iran but also really the confusion around what is Iran's status. We have the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper omitting Iran and Hezbollah from the list of threats to our country for the first time in a long time and we also have Iran's growing influence with their Shia militia and their troops on the ground growing really in Iraq and the ground that they are controlling as well as in Yemen and in other places.
So, there seems to be really a lack of coherent strategy with regards to how we as the United States are dealing with Iran as we look at this threat of nuclear armed Iran as well as this threat of Islamic extremists like ISIS, like al Qaeda, like Boko Haram who really it should be no surprise that they are training together again because it's less about the name of a specific group, the common theme here is that these are radical Islamic extremists conducting violent terrorist activities and until we recognize and understand who they are, how they are operating, then we're not going to be able to have a coherent winning strategy to defeat them.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/03/24/dem_rep_gabbard_lack_of_coherent_strategy_to_deal_with_iranian_nuclear_threat_islamic_extremism.html
To recap, for Republicans to swoon over a woman, the basic requirements are:
1) she bash Obama;
2) she have the 'exotic' outside the lower 48 factor;
3) superficially attractive; and
4) be able to churn out industrial-strength word salad when attempting to discuss policy.
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