If Jeb Bush’s biggest vulnerability may be immigration, Rand Paul’s leading problem as a presidential aspirant is his views on foreign policy. Despite attempts to recast himself as a “realist,” Paul has broken with the foreign policy not merely of George W. Bush, but of most Republicans of the past 60 years. Republican elites are starting to take notice, and warning that they will seek to ensure that Paul will not be the nominee.
How much an obstacle will Paul’s foreign policy views be? And how will his critics try to undermine him? CONT.
Richard Skinner, Mischiefs of Faction