Does the definition of conservative foreign policy change considering the 2006-2008 election?
And more specifically, does the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive invasion survive the 2006-2008 election and continue as part of our definition of conservative to be pre-emptive in our invasions of other countries?] Your reading of the polls is correct of what happened to us in 2006. It’s not that ours didn’t show up. It’s that the independents who otherwise voted for us didn’t show up because of not the invasion of Iraq, but the occupation of Iraq. You could go over and knock off the guy that you thought was threatening you and then leave. People would have bought it. It was the sense of unending, unending unendingness. And when asked what’s the plan and where are we going, we were told we’ll leave some time in the next 50 or 100 years. So it’s a credential question. The Republican Party traditionally is the Party of strong national defense, especially since the Democrats didn’t want to pick a fight with the Soviet Union and thought that they weren’t a threat, and that has carried on. The
