Word is that Republican clown car passengers aren't just out there visiting GOP primary and caucus states. They're also frantically globe-trotting, trying to amass some sort of "foreign policy experience" in order to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.
We cats think it's hilarious. Chris Christie, for example, believes that watching a soccer game in England will qualify him to debate a former Secretary of State about America's role in the world. And although the media usually fail to point it out, Baby Marco Rubio styles himself as an expert on Cuba but has never actually been there.
Secretary Clinton, meanwhile, spent four years doing real-deal foreign policy stuff: helping to open up Myanmar, bringing Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to the US, repairing relations with Pakistan after the bin Laden raid, crafting a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, nudging Iran back to the negotiating table on nuclear arms, and more. We know because we read her 635-page doorstop of a book.
So we think the GOP clowns have some real catching up to do, and they won't get it by visiting a few world capitals and sucking up to Benjamin Netanyahu. And finally, let's be frank about that other Republican shortcoming, shall we? To successfully apply "smart power," you kinda have to be smart. We cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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