Did he just make a major foreign policy speech that didn’t mention al-Qaeda? And promised to reverse “massive defense cuts” that haven’t actually been made?
It’s mostly a long list of scare stories, unaccompanied by any actual plans other than chest-thumping and sabre-rattling.
And yet this empty suit - in Charlie Cook’s phrase, a man who “still looks like he could be a Haggar slacks model” - is the pundits’ idea of a “serious” Republican. Has there ever been a major party so utterly devoid of talent?