re: #4 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

No wonder, since they totally effed up our foreign policy the last time they were in high office.

I think the point was… that the “base” driving the GOP nomination process is so inward looking that foreign policy is pretty much an afterthought, and what little foreign policy is offered up by the prospective candidates is incoherent.

Now, the old powers-that-be in the GOP know better - witness the Iowa agri-businessmen who were courting Christie to get in the race. Agribusiness is very sensitive to foreign policy and the loony isolationism of the Tea Partying GOP runs counter to what agriculture in this country is all about.